5.1 Learning Environment 

Host organisations are requested to: 

• Provide a safe, ethical and inclusive environment aligned with  organisational policies and professional standards.
• Offer exposure to real work such as service organisation, management,  quality improvement, data and information systems, community or  outreach work, research or innovation.
•  Allow students to attend relevant meetings and observe workflows,  decision-making and interprofessional collaboration where appropriate.

5.2 Supervision and Mentoring 

Each site should nominate a supervisor/mentor who will: 

• Orient the student to the organisation, policies, safety procedures and  data/confidentiality rules. 
• Co-develop a short learning plan with the student at the start of the  placement.
• Allocate appropriate tasks and oversee the students’ work.
• Provide regular formative feedback (informal check-ins, at least monthly).
• Complete brief end-of-placement feedback forms.

5.3 Suggested Tasks and Projects 

Tasks should: 

• Be meaningful but appropriate to the student’s level. 
• Support at least some of the following areas: systems analysis, quality  improvement, project management, health analytics, innovation, research  or policy. 

Examples include but not limited to: 

• Shadowing clinic or hospital managers, programme coordinators, quality  improvement leads, data staff or primary care teams. 
• Participating in quality improvement activities (e.g. process mapping,  review of patient flow, basic audits, drafting a simple improvement plan). 
• Supporting project planning and implementation (e.g. stakeholder  mapping, risk identification, simple Gantt charts, monitoring templates). 
• Contributing to research/evaluation tasks appropriate for an honours  student (e.g. literature searches, tool piloting, de-identified data collation,  under supervision).
• Observing and documenting organisational culture, communication and  leadership practices for later reflection.