Next week we have the 4th in our series of free online critical physiotherapy seminars. This one will be led by Patty Thille, talking about "What does it mean to 'care'? Thinking with Annemarie Mol". Details of how to connect and the times of the talk in your local area are below. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/241857657 Dates and times in your area Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 7:00:00 a.m. NZST UTC+12 hours Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 5:00:00 a.m. AEST UTC+10 hours Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 3:00:00 … [Read more...] about The 4th free online critical physiotherapy seminar next week with Patty Thille
New: Looking
'Observation is essential to expertise in medicine, and yet clinical training lacks a standard model for teaching and learning how to look. Interacting with visual art is exactly the kind of practice-based experience that is required to learn to look effectively. Learning to see brings many unexpected benefits: quite literally, opening eyes opens minds. Arts Practica proposes a model for learning observation in the context of art museums to improve quality in the clinic.' This quote comes from 'a medical education consultancy [called Arts Practica, which is] committed to improving healthcare quality, reducing misdiagnosis, and increasing arts engagement (link). Physiotherapy is so much … [Read more...] about New: Looking
Are we gatekeepers, or locksmiths?
This post was published earlier on Michael Rowe's blog. Micheal is a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network and has given permission to reproduce his blogpost here. David Nicholls at Critical Physiotherapy recently blogged about how we might think about access to physiotherapy education, and offers the metaphor of a gated community as one possibility. The staff act as the guards at the gateway to the profession and the gate is a threshold across which students pass only when they have demonstrated the right to enter the community. This got me thinking about the metaphors we use as academics, particularly those that guide how we think about our role as examiners. David’s … [Read more...] about Are we gatekeepers, or locksmiths?
Really Good Stuff: Lessons learned through innovation in medical education
Each year, the journal Medical Education produces a list of brief papers called 'Really Good Stuff: Lessons learned through innovation in medical education.' It usually contains some interesting ideas. Here is the latest edition. A peer-reviewed collection of short reports from around the world on innovative approaches to medical education (pages 1101–1102) Article first published online: 12 OCT 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/medu.12600 Introduction (page 1103) M Brownell Anderson Article first published online: 12 OCT 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/medu.12599 Multiple mini-interviews combined with group interviews in medical student selection (page 1104) Shih-Chieh Liao, Tzuen-Ren Hsiue, … [Read more...] about Really Good Stuff: Lessons learned through innovation in medical education
Critical physiotherapy research update
Lived Observations: Linking the Researcher’s Personal Experiences to Knowledge Development Lisbeth Thoresen & Joakim Öhlén As researchers in palliative care, we recognize how involvement with seriously ill and dying persons has an impact on us. Using one’s own senses, emotional and bodily responses in observations might open intersubjective dimensions of the research topic. The aim of the article is to highlight how phenomenological theories on intersubjectivity can be useful to develop rich and transparent data generation and analysis. We present three field note examples from observation in a hospice ward, which illuminate how researcher awareness of aspects of intersubjectivity can … [Read more...] about Critical physiotherapy research update