PIIC Webite to close
- mrsmncleary
- 2 hours ago
- 2 min read
After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to close PIIC as a live platform. While this is not the outcome I had hoped for, I have been unable to launch or expand PIIC in the way I originally envisioned.
PIIC has been an important endeavour and a deeply valuable learning experience. It has given me the opportunity to explore the health systems, cultural structures and health delivery challenges that shape equitable clinical education and directly influence patient care.
This project began as an ambitious undergraduate-led endeavour, created from a genuine desire to explore how clinical education could better support patients, practitioners and more equitable foot health care.
At the time, I did not fully understand the complexity, scale or infrastructure required to build and sustain a healthcare image repository. However, the lessons I have gained from this process have been invaluable and I will carry them forward as some of the most important learning from this journey.
PIIC has helped me understand not only the importance of representation in clinical education, but also the wider system challenges that shape whether innovations can be developed, governed, funded and sustained. These lessons will continue to inform my work and will be taken forward through my research, advocacy and support for initiatives that contribute to foot health in all capacities, particularly those that support vulnerable and under-represented groups.
PIIC may be closing in its current form, but the questions it raised remain important.
How do we ensure that clinical education is representative?
How do we continually support practitioners to recognise conditions across different skin tones and populations?
How do we build innovation in ways that are ethical, sustainable and equitable from the beginning?
How can we embed equitable education as a necessity, rather than treating it as a “nice to have”?
These are questions I will continue to carry forward in my future work.
As a current second-year PhD candidate, my research is focused on supporting the development of a sustainable foot health workforce, with particular attention to pre-registration education and training.
PIIC has strengthened my understanding of the importance of building equity into health education and workforce development from the beginning. It has also shown me that innovation requires more than a good idea; it requires governance, partners, resources, collaboration, sustainability and careful consideration of the people and communities it aims to serve. The learning gained through PIIC will continue to shape this next stage of my journey.
I would like to thank everyone who has supported PIIC throughout this project. If you would like to follow my future work, you can find me on LinkedIn at Monique Cleary, where I will continue to share learning and discoveries from my research. www.linkedin.com/in/monique-cleary-098aa5264
I would also like to acknowledge that I am not the only person working in this space. Below, I have provided a list of other sites and resources where valuable information can be found to support equitable education, clinical practice and care.
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