292 292 © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and The Association for the Study of Medical Education. THE CLINICAL TEACHER 2017; 14: 292–294 Insights Medical student placement success: a nurse-led unit Alison Colhoun 1,2 , Hamza Ahmed 3 , Robert Lord 1 and Gail Miles 4 1 Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, PGME, UK 2 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK 3 University of Sheffield, UK 4 BreathingSpace, Nurse-led Respiratory Unit, Rotherham, UK INTRODUCTION W ith increasing numbers of medical students and the UK General Medical Council requirements for quality placements for all, 1 hospitals need to place more students without overcrowding clinical areas. We include a student perspective of the placement experience, and report our experiences of placing students within a nurse-led off-site specialist respiratory unit, which we think also helps address a gap in current education programmes to reflect the increasing role of out-of-hospital care models. 2 BreathingSpace is a community service based in Rotherham for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory conditions. The unit is situated approximately 2 miles from the hospital, with 20 in-patient beds and out-patient services. BreathingSpace offers: a pulmonary rehabilitation pro- gramme; home oxygen assess- ment services; respite care; hospice care; patient education; smoking cessation support; as well as supporting early hospital discharge and admission avoidance. A MEDICAL STUDENT EXPERIENCE The day at BreathingSpace begins at 0900 h and finishes Hospitals need to place more students without overcrowding clinical areas