Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. A good friend of mine and someone known to a lot of people in health care in Canada (the very brilliant and fiercely critical Dave Holmes), is a native French speaker. You'd never know it from the way he writes, but he has some real anxieties about his ability to express himself in English. As someone who has always struggled to learn languages, I confess I can't imagine anything more difficult than … [Read more...] about Idea 25: Overcoming barriers to publishing in English language journals (3 mins)
Idea 24: Run a webinar (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. Webinars have become quite popular as a way for people around the world to connect together and 'attend' a course, lecture or conference in real time, and participate in some professional development. The attraction of webinars - particularly if they are recorded to be played back later - is that they bring people together without all the costs of travel and disruption that international conferences and … [Read more...] about Idea 24: Run a webinar (2 mins)
Idea 23: Collaborate on a critical physiotherapy book (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine suggested it might be a good time to edit a book that brought together different critical perspectives on physiotherapy. A few of us had collaborated on a special edition of the journal Physiotherapy Theory and Practice (link here), and she thought that there was enough depth to the material to produce a bigger manuscript. At the time, I wasn't sure there were … [Read more...] about Idea 23: Collaborate on a critical physiotherapy book (2 mins)
Idea 22: Profiling physiotherapy in different countries (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. Although the physiotherapy profession has its origins in a few common historical moments, it has diversified to an incredible degree, to the point that the World Confederation of Physical Therapists is now constituted by 106 member organisations and more than 350,000 practising members. And although there are going to be many commonalities between the kinds of practice seen in countries as diverse as … [Read more...] about Idea 22: Profiling physiotherapy in different countries (2 mins)
Idea 21: Develop a critical glossary of terms (3 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. One of our members - Hani Vitelson (Israel) - suggested that the Network might develop a glossary of terms and ideas to challenge the profession to think differently about some of the concepts that we take for granted. Two years ago, the WCPT launched it's own glossary for the profession (see here), but this provides some guidance on professional rather than practical matters. (It includes sections on … [Read more...] about Idea 21: Develop a critical glossary of terms (3 mins)
Idea 20: Limit the Network to 150 members (3 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. "... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained." Now I know this … [Read more...] about Idea 20: Limit the Network to 150 members (3 mins)
Idea 19: Set up a reviewer network (4 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. I've talked to journal editors in the past who have said that one of hardest jobs is to find good reviewers for articles that have been submitted for publication, and the problem is only made worse when the article is qualitative. Unless it's a physiotherapy journal that is familiar with qualitative research, the editor is often completely at a loss to know who to send the article to. They receive a … [Read more...] about Idea 19: Set up a reviewer network (4 mins)