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Clinicals - April 29, 2008 7:38:12 PM
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annpsu25
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Hey everyone!
I start my 1st clinical on May 12th. I'll be in an outpatient Ortho clinic. I'm pretty nervous, but really excited to start. What advice can you give me and what are/were your clinical experiences like?
Wish me luck!
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Allisha
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RE: Clinicals - May 3, 2008 7:17:45 PM
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BlueDaisy
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Hey Allisha
All the best! I'm sure it will be great and you will do well-clinicals are so exciting.
I dont know how relevant my experiences are as I have no idea how different our course structure is (I'm a physiotherapy student from NZ).
I'm currently in the middle of my first placement(a mere one morning a week for 3 weeks), its musculoskeletal in a private practice setting. We have been asking the subjective, taking part in the objective-palpation, measuring ROM, muscle strength testing and working out relevant functional tests are things I have done so far (under close supervison of course) as well as loads of observing.
Its really important to try and seem confident, it doesn't matter if you don't know something, you are there to learn. Just dont try and fade into the background cos you wont learn anything that way. Make sure you ask loads of questions, I found that some of the theory we had been taught didnt match up with practice so I asked about the reasoning behind the differences (just dont use up your precious time asking questions you can easily look up later).
Its really neat to be using knowledge we have learned in class on real live patients! Going on clinical makes you realise just how important all the things we are learning really are...I never realised how important proper history taking was till now!
You are probably way further on in your training than me so your experiences may be more involved than mine, I've only been in physio school for 9 weeks so I have a lot to learn (I'm technically 2nd year physio but last year was competitive health sciences with all the med, dent, pharmacy hopefuls).
Anyway I hope you enjoy and learn a lot from your first placement!
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