Student Placements Opportunities from Curriculum 2007

Curriculum 2007 Underpinning Skills& Knowledge EHness Food Safety Public Health Health Protection Policy and strategy Health and Safety Housing Environmental Protection commercial

Option 1 - the GP EHP EHness FoodH&SHsgEPPH ‘Set on the road to competence as a GP EHP’

Option 2 – the restricted generalist EHness Food ‘Generalist level competencies’ H&S Hsg PH

Option 3 - the specialist EHP EHness Food ‘Generalist level competencies’ ‘Fully competent EHP’

Option 4 - the specialist with generalist options EHness Food ‘Generalist level competencies’ ‘Fully competent EHP’ H&S

Generalist opportunities No real change Traditional route to qualification Opportunities for trad. integrated placements are disappearing so fast that this route will be moribund within 2 years – it probably is already! Placement desert is now impacting on recruitment to BSc – course closures from 2009

Specialist opportunities Internship (normally employment as Technician) is about development of EHness and competence in specialism – universally 'end-on' after completion of degree Internship must lift the student to Masters level in respect of the specialism Whilst internship is about developing competence (a higher cognitive requirement than for Gps) it wil normally be in one subject area so training burden on placement organisations is reduced

Summary Traditional placements are dying, if not dead Whether we like it or not specialist competence-based practice IS the future Competence development only comes with practice For specialist route, placements replaced by internships / employment as a Technician Internship concentrates in one specialist area of practice and, in theory, increases system capacity Unless we can address the placement/internship issue course recruitment and the profession will die.

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