AUT - Trauma and the Education of Health Professionals
- ArionWhere applying and enrolled students can access AUT course information, check your enrolment status, make fee payments, update your personal details and view your academic results.
- AUTOnlineOnline access to course resources and learning activities through AUT's central learning management system.
- UnicentralUniCentral is the AUT University Student Portal. Here you will find useful information about you as a student and quicklinks to all the important online systems you will need to use while studying at AUT University.
Centre Banner
Breadcrumb
Main Content
Trauma and the Education of Health Professionals
The educating of health professions involves trauma in two ways:First, it is vital that health professionals have an understanding of trauma. The ITRU is involved in developing and implementing trauma curriculum and eductional resources.
Second, the experience of health professional education can be traumatic. Unfortunately this is all too common. Edcuation becomes trauma when there are cultural clashes between the student and institution or when the content of the education is traumatic. Several ITRU researchers are involved with studying the traumatic effect of health professional education.
- Dene Hancock, Occupational Therapy, has studied ways to mimimise trauma for students enrolled in science with a cadaver laboratory experience.
- Helen Curreen, Violence and Trauma Studies, has published on ways to safely include trauma curriculum attending to the risk for students who have a history of trauma (past or current).
- Maria Rameka, Nursing, has studied the experience of Maori women enrolled in the undergraduate nursing programme.
Last updated: 16 Jul 2009 12:16pm