Supporting the Staff who Support Students

Professional and academic staff, clinical supervisors and student peers are often faced with students who have concerns. These concerns may range from seemingly trivial timetabling queries to rare, but distressing, emergencies. With support from the Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE), Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and the University of Melbourne, these training resources were created to address research findings on the impact of responding to student concerns – particularly on "front line" professional staff and student peers.

The study can be accessed via PubMed: Flynn E, Woodward-Kron R, Hu W. Training for staff who support students. The Clinical Teacher. 2015;12:1-6. (opens in new window)

Multimedia training resources for staff who deal with health professional students

These multimedia training resources and facilitator materials have been designed for use in brief workplace-based training workshops. They have been extensively trialed in urban and rural clinical training sites in Australia and internationally.