Clinical education forms a major component of undergraduate allied health courses and is essential to the development of clinical proficiency. Northern Health aims to provide a setting in which we can teach students essential clinical and professional skills. The goals of clinical education focus on professional growth and development for both students and clinical educators resulting in optimal service to clients.

In addition to offering traditional one-to-one mentoring and coaching for students we aim to be innovative with our approaches to clinical education. Northern Health is developing a unique approach to clinical education and professional placements.  We are in the process of developing an interdisciplinary clinical school to support learning.  The clinical school will include a range of disciplines and links with a number of universities and TAFE institutions under one organisational and operational umbrella.  Students on placement at Northern Health will be supported through the clinical school, as will their clinical educators.  We are starting to engage with a wider range of agencies in the region to establish a network of clinical educators and professional placements as a way of better coordinating student experiences in the Northern region.  We are very interested to collaborate with agencies in the Northern Region who take students, and to develop stronger links and opportunities for both learning and research.