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Learning and Teaching Innovations in Podiatry

Guest Editor:
Sarah Curran: Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 5 January 2024


Journal of Foot and Ankle Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on Learning and Teaching Innovations in Podiatry. Education provides the foundational basis of professional podiatry practice. Modern day workforce size, skill mix, and career progression are influenced significantly by the quality of teaching and learning at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Currently, there is a lack of international literature based on learning and teaching with the podiatry profession.

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About the collection

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on Learning and Teaching Innovations in Podiatry. Education provides the foundational basis of professional podiatry practice. Modern day workforce size, skill mix, and career progression are influenced significantly by the quality of teaching and learning at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Currently, there is a lack of international literature based on learning and teaching with the podiatry profession. At a time when the profession is being called upon to be proactive and open (Saks, 2021), education is an important area for greater exploration, understanding and application. This thematic series seeks to address the gap in literature by enhancing the evidence base supporting current education practice and innovations. Potential authors with an interest in learning and teaching research are strongly encouraged to submit their work. Manuscripts are invited to address any aspect of learning and teaching within podiatry including but not limited to:

• Placement design and capacity solutions
• Assessment of students
• Equality, diversity and inclusivity in teaching and learning
• Interprofessional learning and teaching
• The philosophy of podiatry education
• Apprenticeships and alternatives to traditional routes to registration
• Student engagement and experience
• Simulation and technology

  1. Undergraduate podiatry degrees are designed to enable students to become professional podiatrists. To be successful students must manage academic and practical activity to ultimately acquire a professional ide...

    Authors: Jane Tobbell and Peter Roberts
    Citation: Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2023 16:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles, Data Notes, Case Reports, Study Protocols, and Database Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Editorial Manager. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Learning and Teaching Innovations in Podiatry" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.