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Invited Commentary

RK Ladyshewsky, MHSc, BMR(PT), is Lecturer and Clinical Coordinator-Development, School of Physiotherapy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6008 (r.ladyshewsky@info.curtin.edu.au)

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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this article. The authors are to be commended for sharing the results of their work with the wider physical therapy community. Given the paucity of literature on cooperative learning in health professional education, the authors have made a significant contribution to this growing area of inquiry.

The literature review provides a useful introduction to the benefits and challenges of cooperative learning in clinical education. There are a few important references in the literature outside of the nursing and physical therapy professions that would have added considerable strength to the article.^1,2 There are also recent articles relating to productivity in clinical education, both within a 1:1 model and within a 2:1 model, that would have provided more insight into the productivity dimension.^3–6

I found the authors' writings on the issue of collaboration and professional socialization to be excellent....

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