Students and trainees enrolled in health professional training programs, as well as those involved in advanced or graduate clinical preparation select St. Joseph's Health Centre for the unique opportunities available in a community teaching facility, and for the interprofessional education and practice model that reflects a commitment to excellence, development, competence and accountability.

St. Joseph's provides extensive student education opportunities for medical trainees, nursing students and students from a wide variety of other health professional programs.

Our Students

St. Joseph's provides training to health care industry students for many different programs including:

*If you are seeking a learning, observational and/or service opportunity that is not part of a prescribed curriculum and/or a student placement initiated by an affiliated academic site you must submit an observership application and receive approval to proceed. Please contact the Student Placement Liaison regarding the observership onboarding requirements and application form.

Our Academic Partners

St. Joseph's has been in partnership with the University of Toronto for over 70 years. In addition, we have strong academic partnerships with 25 different educational institutions in Ontario and across Canada. These include:

*Please note that for all students completing placements at SJHC, a current affiliation agreement must be in place. Further information about affiliation agreements is available by contacting the Student Placement Liaison.

Interprofessional Learning Opportunities

St. Joseph's Health Centre provides interprofessional student placements on an annual basis. We are also pleased to offer structured clinical interprofessional learning opportunities as part of our collaboration with the University of Toronto and the Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE). Students are also welcome to attend many of the employee education events run on site.

Here are a couple of quotes from students who completed an IPE placement at SJHC:

• "The IPE placement changed my clinical practice because now I can recognize and communicate patient needs to other health care members and to work together to optimize patient health."
• "I feel more confident in referring patients to more appropriate Health Care Practitioners and interacting with other members of the team."

Student Feedback Helps us Achieve Our Vision

St. Joseph's Health Centre places a high value on the feedback we receive from our students & trainees. At the completion of all student/trainee placements, a follow-up survey is distributed via email. Thank you to all of our students who complete this survey and help us to work toward being ‘Canada's Best Community Teaching Hospital.'

We are pleased to share some of the positive feedback we have received from our students in 2009/10:

“I had a good learning experience at St. Joseph's Health Centre during my pre-grad placement. Not only my preceptor but all the interdisciplinary team are co-operative and welcoming in nature. I really had good time learning!”

“My placement experience at St. Joseph's Health Centre was excellent. I really enjoyed my supervisors and they were both fantastic teachers. My placement at St. Joseph's was my final clinical placement and I have since graduated. I would consider myself very fortunate to have an opportunity to be part of a supportive and open health care team and it would be a privilege to have the opportunity to work in a professional capacity on a team that was similar to the two teams I worked with at St. Joseph's.”

“Both my clinical supervisors were excellent clinicians and teachers. They were both able to adapt to my learning styles and I was able to adapt to their teaching styles. They both gave feedback in an open and constructive manner, were very open with their communication and availability.”

“I really enjoyed all the interprofessional opportunities available at St. Joe's”

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