Preparing Smart Clinical Placement for Physical Therapy Students

Clinical practice is necessary for medical education to expose students to real clinical contexts. Clinical placement thus has been set in the TQF1 of physical therapy program with specific credit. Although using simulated learning environment and standardized patients can provide a way to scaffold the development of skills for patient management in a low risk environment, clinical practice with real patients can be challenging in which it is an uncontrolled situation. Nevertheless, the organizational and financial costs were prohibitive. These complexity involved many factors, i.e., students, clinical instructors, academic staffs, big data processing, and bureaucracy. Innovation for develop clinical placement is always required to proceed students gaining clinical learning in the most effective way.