Ana Margarida Alho, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Susana Viegas, Paulo Nogueira
Effect of heatwaves on daily hospital admissions in Portugal, 2000-18: an observational study
The Lancet. Planetary health
final year podiatry students volunteer annually part wider interprofessional medical team brighton london marathon race events supervised qualified podiatrists allied health professionals physicians volunteering reported positive experience participants way developing range professional transferable appropriate clinical skills sought explore lived experience 25 students volunteered one events aimed examine experiential learning reported students volunteering dynamic demanding clinical field environment ii determine whether elements learning could translated traditional teaching environment preregistration podiatry course qualitative design framework informed principles interpretative phenomenological analysis adopted explore topic used ipa principles enable analysis four focus groups twoyear period generate findings focus group conversations led external researcher recorded independently transcribed verbatim anonymised prior analysis two different researchers enhance credibility data analysis followed independent verification themes addition respondent validation total five themes identified new interprofessional working environment ii identification unexpected psychosocial challenges iii rigors nonclinical environment iv clinical skill development v learning interprofessional team throughout focus group conversations range positive negative experiences reported students volunteering opportunity fills gap learning perceived students particularly around developing clinical skills interprofessional working however sometimesfrantic nature marathon race event facilitate impede learning maximize learning opportunities particularly interprofessional environment preparing students new different clinical settings remains considerable challenge