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Academic standards are not new to higher education. Universities seek to provide quality education. Today, we face increasing internal as well as external scrutiny in higher education, while at the same time the health sector, which is engaged in workplace learning aspects of health professional education, is also encountering ever-increasing demands for quality. This context provides the background for this exploration of standards in health professional education.
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Higgs, J., Adams, E. (2013). Standards in Health Professional Education. In: Loftus, S., Gerzina, T., Higgs, J., Smith, M., Duffy, E. (eds) Educating Health Professionals. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-353-9_12
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