Oh my goodness! Karina - you posted in April and I'm only just reading it! How awful do I feel!!!!!!!!!!

The course at my old Uni has recently changed. When I did it, you only went to workshops for clinical subjects and you went a couple of weeks prior to commencement of placement. I understand that in addittion to those workshops, students are required to attend one in first year, second semester.
There are no clinicals in first year any more. I think there are two lots of 6 weeks placements in 2nd year, a 6 week and an 8 week in 3rd year. Of course, if you do it part time you can manipulate your work load by picking your subjects to determine when you go back to SA and when you do clinicals. If you aren't in a position to take time off work you can defer the clinical subjects for a year. The only catch is you have to ensure all pre-req's are met. The Uni is pretty flexiable about work load (providing your pre-req's are met).

HTH and sooooooooooooo sorry about the delayed reply!!!!