Biomedical subjects

Lindy McAllister

Publications and source records attributed to Lindy McAllister.

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PubMed2006

Being a clinical educator.

What is it like to be a clinical educator? How do clinical educators experience and describe their continuing journey of becoming a clinical educator? Within the model developed in this research, dimensions of being a clinical educator were identified. These dimensions include (a) having a sense of self (and the impact of bringing self into the clinical educator's role), (b) having a sense of relationship with others (and the place of this "interactive self" as a central feature of clinical education), (c) having a sense of being a clinical educator (and how this understanding relates to the previous two dimensions), (d) having a sense of agency (which is vital to the performance of many clinical education roles), (e) seeking dynamic self-congruence, and (e) growth as a clinical educator. This paper presents an overview of the model, discusses its strengths and limitations as a representation of speech pathology clinical educators' experiences, and briefly considers its value for professional development.

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PubMed2005

Barriers to accessing rural paediatric speech pathology services: health care consumers' perspectives.

OBJECTIVE: An investigation of consumers' perceived barriers to access paediatric speech pathology services. DESIGN: Self-administered, mail-out questionnaire. SETTING: Rural and remote New South Wales (NSW). SUBJECTS: Three hundred and twenty-nine members of the NSW branch of the Isolated Children's and Parents' Association. RESULTS: Consumers living in rural and remote areas experience a number of barriers that affected their ability to access speech pathology services. These barriers include the lack, and limited choice, of speech pathologists in rural areas; long distances to travel to access services, expensive travel costs, lack of public transport; poor awareness of speech pathology services; and delays in treatment due to waiting lists. CONCLUSION: Barriers to access paediatric speech pathology services limit rural and remote consumers' usage of health services, regardless of need, indicating a possible inequity if compared to larger, more accessible urban areas.

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