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Workplace Constraints and Innovation for Experiential Training of Health Professional Learners: A Workshop

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The global shortage of high-quality clinical training opportunities has been a growing concern for health professions education with far-reaching implications. Most notably in the United States, clinical training sites and slots are not expanding in pace with the growing number of health professional schools and students, resulting in heightened competition for available spots and difficulty for students to complete required training. Exacerbating the problem is the extensive burnout of clinicians and workforce attrition, leading to limited preceptor capacity. This workshop will explore causes and potential solutions to the growing challenge of insufficient experiential learning sites across all the health professions.

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Addressing Training Site and Slot Shortages Across the Health Professions: Proceedings of a Workshop Series—in Brief

2026

Across health care education, demand for clinical and experiential learning opportunities continues to grow, but the availability of high-quality training sites has not kept pace, resulting in fewer fully trained health professionals. How do we prepare the next generation of clinicians when there ar...

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