On the podcast today we chat with Jacqui Broadbridge, a Lecturer (Practice Education) in Occupational Therapy, in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University. She currently coordinates student practice education experiences across all years of the program. With over thirty years professional experience, including management roles within vocational rehabilitation & injury prevention, her teaching and research passions focus on the transformative learning experiences of practicums together with creating innovative solutions to a constantly changing industrial and stakeholder landscape. 

 

In this episode we get into:

Where Jacqui’s career started 

What is involved in working with students and student placements at the University 

How those student placements have evolved especially during the pandemic 

The push at the moment is to do more, rural, regional and remote placements 

How the undergraduate training has changed over the years  

How Jacqui thinks workplaces can best support that contemporary student and contemporary model of OT training 

What Jacqui sees as the benefit to services and having students 

What a good placement looks like for students 

What students as graduates are looking for in a job 

 

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