Mutual benefits in hospital-based clinical education for the allied health professions: A position

Hospitals are traditionally centers for health care as well as institutions for health education. This latter function has been changing during the last few decades and continues to change with regard to both type and form of education offered. By providing clinical training sites, an increasingly involved association with higher education institutes has emerged. In this paper, it is argued that student, college, hospital and society all benefit from this cooperation.