Resilience, professionalism, and reflective thinking: The three-legged stool of health professional and teacher education students’ fieldwork practice / Resilienz, Professionalität und reflektierendes Denken: die drei Säulen für das Praktikum von Studierenden der Gesundheitsberufe und der Lehrerbildung

		Length of degree	Accreditation body	Fieldwork hours required	When fieldwork hours are completed
Occupational therapy	Bachelor	4 years	Occupational Therapy Council of Australia & World Federation of Occupational Therapists	1000	During each year of the course
Occupational therapy	Master	2 years		1000	During the 2 years of the graduate-entry master's course; students are required to complete at least one placement that is a minimum of 8 weeks in length
Pharmacy	Bachelor	4 years	Australian Pharmacy Council	No minimum requirement^*	During each year of the course. Two days in year 1, 2 weeks in year 2, 4 weeks in year 3, and 11 weeks in year 4
Pharmacy	Bachelor/Master	5 years	Australian Pharmacy Council	1824	During each year of the course. Two days in year 1, 10 days in year 2, 20 days in year 3, 55 days in year 4, and 228 days (1824 h) in year 5
Social work	Master	2 years	Australian Association of Social Workers	1000	During each year of the course
Teaching	Bachelor	4 years	Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership	80 days	During each year of the course
Teaching	Master	2 years	Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership	60 days	During each year of the course

* Australian Pharmacy Council requires that pharmacy programs must provide evidence that students have “demonstrated achievement of the degree performance outcomes to the specific level” and that this will require periods of work-integrated learning.

Table 2

Demographics of focus group participants (N = 78).

		Frequency	Percent
Discipline	Occupational therapy	18	23.1
	Pharmacy	6	7.7
	Social work	38	48.7
	Education	16	20.5
Education level at the start of the course	High school	38	48.7
	Bachelor's	24	30.8
	Master's	16	20.5
Enrollment status	Full time	77	98.7
Enrollment status	Part time	1	1.3
Enrollment type	Domestic student	27	34.6
Enrollment type	International student	51	65.4

Table 3

Demographics by discipline.

Discipline	Gender	Highest level of education when started the current course	Enrollment status	Enrollment type
Occupational therapy n = 18 Two focus groups	13 (72.2%) female 5 (27.8%) male	17 (94.4%) high school 1 (5.6%) bachelor's	17 (94.4%) full time 1 (5.6%) part time	14 (77.8%) domestic students 4 (22.2%) international students
Pharmacy n = 6 One focus group	3 (50%) female 3 (50%) male	5 (83.3%) high school 1 (16.7%) bachelor's	6 (100%) full time	6 domestic students
Social work n = 38 Four focus groups	30 (79%) female 6 (15.8%) male 2 (5.2%) prefer not to say	24 (63.2%) bachelor's 14 (36.8%) master's	38 (100%) full time	38 (100%) international students
Education n = 16 Three focus groups	14 (87.5%) female 1 (6.25%) male 1 (6.25%) prefer not to say	16 (100%) high school	16 (100%) full time	8 (50%) domestic students 8 (50%) international students

Table 4

Participants’ age in years

		Age (years)
Occupational therapy	Mean	24.9
	Std. deviation	6.9
	Range	22.0
Pharmacy	Mean	20.8
	Std. deviation	1.2
	Range	3.0
Social work	Mean	27.2
	Std. deviation	3.8
	Range	14.0
Education	Mean	21.5
	Std. deviation	1.4
	Range	5.0
Total sample	Mean	25.0
	Std. deviation	4.9
	Range	23.0

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2021-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2296-990X

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Submitted on: Apr 13, 2021

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