QMU School of Health Sciences Section Practice Education Handbook
Introduction
Practice placements are an important element of the curriculum for a significant number of students studying healthcare programmes within the School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Practice placements can occur in a diversity of areas, eg: Health Board, Special Care Board; Social Care; Private Organisation; Voluntary Sector; Care Home. They can be located in Scotland, the wider UK or throughout the world.
This section of the Practice Placement Handbook includes information relevant to all healthcare programmes across the school and includes:
- selected generic elements of student preparation for placement;
- information about the fitness to practice policy;
- guidance related to communication between the practice site and the relevant University contact.
As the programmes of study vary across the School, this section of the Handbook will be supported by a programme or subject specific section
