Clinical Matching

Where expertise meets eagerness.

If you manage a medical practice that is a teaching facility, you understand the pros and cons of this relationship. We'd like to make it all "pros".  There is generally stress that comes taking on new students and challenges and then more stress with trying to find and hire qualified personnel that fit your model of operations. It's typically not an easy process. You've probably been involved in having students come into your department or facility to help train them and, ultimately, reap the benefits of hiring the ones you train based on your standards. Often, this works. Sometimes it doesn't. 

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Clinical Partners has taken this process a step further and analyzed what works and what doesn't and why. With Clinical Matching by Clinical Partners, hiring is no longer a challenge. It begins when student's training begins. Combining the educational process with the employers from the beginning of the student's education has extraordinary benefits for both the student and the clinical facility. 

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Our Clinical Matching service, introduces clinical students to clinical sites before the educational journey begins. Our simple, easy to use, paperless clinical education platform, allows for students, schools and medical practices to all work together in a mutually beneficial organizational structure.

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Here's how it works.

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Before the clinical portion of the education program begin:

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1. SITE NEEDS - CLINICAL PARTNER'S MARKET SURVEY

What are the needs of the Sites?

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2. SCHOOL NEEDS - CLINICAL PARTNER'S ENROLLMENT ASSESSMENT - ENROLLMENT NUMBER vs. CLINICAL SITES
How many Clinical Sites does the school need?

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3. STUDENT NEEDS - CLINICAL PARTNER'S LEARNING CONTRACTS - GOALS vs. GEOGRAPHY

Where does the student want to work? If they don't know, what facilities are within their travel range?

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Educational Facilities are paired with Medical Practices via the Clinical Matching portal on Clinical Partner's site. The standards of the school's training are paired with the standards of the medical practice before clinical rotations begin. For example, if you are an ultrasound department in a hospital, and you hire 1-2 Diagnostic Medical Sonographers per year on average, you agree to accept 2 students per year at a time, full time during their clinical rotations, in your department. The facility commits to provide a high quality training in accordance with accreditation standards using the paperless system that Clinical Partners offers.   

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2. Before the clinical program begins, students accepted into the school are required to interview with the clinical sites they will be rotating through. Sites can be matched to students based on geography, area of study, or other interests.

To date, this doesn't take place when students are entering a program. At times, this occurs prior to students beginning the clinical portion of the program. Clinical Partners believes that it is important for students to be introduced to as many of their instructors and their potential employers as possible before embarking on their educational journey. This is building a relationship that is beneficial to all.

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3. After the interview, sites and students make their selections. For a program start of 20 students, 40 clinical site "rooms" must be available. That's where Clinical Partners comes in. Our scheduling is able to take the number of sites, the rooms and technologists per site and pair them with the students according to regulations and standards.

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3. Before the program begins, students, schools and practices meet and schedule their clinical requirements including their clinical rotation schedule.  The student accepts and commits to that schedule ahead of time, in writing. The site commits participating in the student's instruction ahead of time in association with the school's curriculum guidelines and the facility's standards.  These standards are available at Clinical Partners, which helps match the schools and the sites.

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4. During the program, prior to commencement of the clinical portion of the program, students are evaluated, via the Clinical Partner's Clinical Site Student Evaluation process. Those that meet the criteria continue to their clinical program as scheduled. Those that do not, still attend the clinical site rotation, but under Clinical Partner's 30 Day Clinical Education Guidance (CPCG), where the student is required to take a pass didactic and clinical tests in addition to their current coursework in order to meet the clinical program criteria.  This is built into the Clinical Partner's Clinical Guidance.  Clinical Partner's works directly with schools and medical practices to ensure that students maintain the educational clinical standards.  Students that do not meet the clinical criteria of the program, follow the practices and protocols of their school and clinical sites. It is our hope and belief that Clinical Partner's Clinical Guidance can help students fulfill the requirements of the program increasing retention and, ultimately, outcomes.

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5. At specified intervals during the clinical portion of the program, the student, school and site with communicate to evaluate the progress of the 24 students. The site