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What we can learn from each other

02 July 2015
Volume 5 · Issue 2

As globalisation continues to rise year on year, the benefit of international learning and collaboration has become increasingly apparent. Within health services, the sharing of research between countries undoubtedly helps improve medical practice, policy and education, both on a national and international level.

Within paramedicine, organisations such as International Paramedic have been created to: ‘address the challenges and opportunities facing the paramedic profession by looking to best practice and current evidence shared by its international members who are not limited by the geopolitical barriers of province, state, region or country’ (Acker, 2014).

International exchange programmes are a regular occurrence within higher education institutions, due to their ability to offer students intercultural awareness and the development of global issues related to the student's field of study (Lord et al, 2013). Within paramedicine, a number of successful exchange programmes have been documented (Owen and Woodyatt, 2012; Ashton et al, 2013; Jones and McGillis, 2013; Lord et al, 2013; Rice, 2014).

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