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A major problem confronting the education of students in many health professions is assessing what they do on clinical placements in (often) non-university clinical facilities. Like campus-based assessment, such assessments need to be conducted in a manner that is objective and fair, and is seen to be objective and fair. These assessments are usually undertaken by non-university staff working at the clinical placement.
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Kilgour, A., Gerzina, T., Keppell, M., Gerzina, J. (2013). Understanding the Place of Assessment Standards. In: Loftus, S., Gerzina, T., Higgs, J., Smith, M., Duffy, E. (eds) Educating Health Professionals. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-353-9_24
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