Hey guys, I’d like to congratulate everyone on making it to this point, only a few days to go! I thought I’d take the opportunity in my final blog to reflect upon my final year of physiotherapy, and upon the last four years.
I have always wanted to be a physiotherapist, I just didn’t realise how much physiotherapy involved. I think we’ve all considered at one time or another; is all this work really worth it? While it’s too early to determine, at this point I feel like I am heading into an ever expanding profession that provides a huge amount of variety to work in many different areas. Furthermore, it can be extremely rewarding, provides opportunities to meet some great people, and provides opportunities to work all over the world.
It’s amazing how far we have come from first to final year; I never thought it was humanly possible to learn the amount that we have learnt. I have less than fond memories of anatomy lab exams, second year exams, and the multiple assignments we have done. It’s going to take several years to catch up on the sleep I have lost, and I am now a coffee addict. This final year has seemed to go by in a flash, but it has been a long hard year. Looking back to my first placement I can see how far I have come in terms of professionalism, communication, and clinical knowledge/reasoning. I spent my entire first placement with my supervisor, yet in the second half of this year I was left treat an entire ward by myself. While we have learnt a lot, and are well equipped to move into the workforce to be effective physiotherapists, there is still a lot more learning to do. From certain placements, particularly musculoskeletal and neurology, I have realised that we have really only been taught the foundations of physiotherapy and I have been exposed to a lot of treatment techniques that we were not exposed to at university. I’m looking forward to learning more.
I’d like to wish everyone good luck for PCR, and for their future careers!
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Yes, I agree that only the foundations have been layed, and that we will continue to learn and expand on our knowledge as we gain more in-depth clinical experience. At the beginning of second year I could not comprehend that in two years time I would be assessing, diagnosing and treating patients with only guidance from a supervisor when it was needed - look how far we have come! Well done guys!
so glad that we are getting closer toward the end. However, learning is life-long and never stop. As we learn, I just realise that how much we have not learnt. Good Luck for everything! =)
Hey ryan absolutley agrree, we are definetley in a a proffession where the learning never stops
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