Featured in October 2011
Each month we feature some our most valued contributions to Physiopedia in the preceding months. We are very grateful to all these contributors in October 2011.
Featured Project
Clinical Case Presentations Continuing Education Opportunity for Physical Therapists
This project, run by Dr Elaine Lonnemann, is an innovative continuing education opportunity offered to physical therapists that are clinical instructors for Bellarmin University in Louisville, KY, USA.
Featured Contributor
Lucy Aird
This month we wanted to feature Lucy for her voluntary contributions to Physiopedia. Lucy is a trainee Physiotherapist at University of Southampton and Healthcare Communications Freelancer. Her help in the quality assurance of Project pages has been invaluable.
Featured Article
Thoracic Spine Fracture
This month we wanted to highlight another page that was created by DPT students as part of a recent project at Texas State University, we love the images that the students have produced.
Featured Sponsor
The Jackson Clinics
Thanks to The Jackson Clinics for becoming a Gold Sponsor. The Jackson Clinics is a locally owned physical therapy practice in Northern Virginia founded in 2005 by Richard and Anna Jackson and has 12 current locations.
It’s World Physical Therapy Day, join in!!
Today is World Physical Therapy Day and we are telling the world about the impact that physiotherapists can have on global health. In alignment with the United Nations summit on non-communicable disease we want to demonstrate the enormous contribution the we, the physiotherapy profession, can make in countering non-communicable diseases. Let’s all get together in Physiopedia to show the world how we can contribute.
Here’s how you can join in:
- If you don’t already have an account, register for one today.
- Once you have an account you will be able to edit pages in Physiopedia.
- Go to our Global Health special interest area and see the section on Non-Communicable Diseases.
- Choose one of the NCDs to contribute to, click on that link, and make your contributions to that page by clicking on the Edit tab.
Following the international collaborative effort to create these pages in Physiopedia we can then use them to publicise our work, educate the public and policy makers about what we do, and try and ensure that people around the world benefit from our skills. Many people do not recognise the contribution physiotherapists make in keeping people healthy and independent, so join us to let them know!!
On twitter let’s also:
- tweet amongst ourselves using the hashtags #WPTD2011 #PhysioPT
- tweet to the people of the world using the hashtags #physiotherapy #physicaltherapy
Let’s have a conversation, create a buzz, talk to the world!
Welcoming Primal Pictures as a new Silver Sponsor
We would like to welcome Primal Pictures our latest Sponsor to the Physiopedia team. Our readers know Physiopedia as an innovative project that supports the free dissemination of knowledge and collaboration within the global physiotherapy profession. Our sponsors know us as that, too. As thanks to our sponsors we like to introduce them to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do.
Primal Pictures is a complete, detailed and accurate 3D model of human anatomy. Available on disc and online and derived from real human data, this range of software provides over 5,000 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. Primal pictures was established in 1991 with the goal of creating the only complete and medically accurate 3D model of the human anatomy. Their 3D anatomy software is widely adopted in education and it is currently used for patient, practitioner and student education in over 20 countries. To find out more about Primal Pictures visit the Primal Pictures page in Physiopedia or visit their website.
Interested to see our other sponsors? Have a look here on our Sponsors page and thank them by following them using our Twitter list.
Interested in being a Physiopedia sponsor? Our readers are physiotherapists and physical therapists, and other health care workers from all over the world. To find out more about our sponsor packages, visit our sponsor page or email Rachael.
Tips for educators engaging in a Project in Physiopedia
If you are an educator that is about to set about supporting a Project in Physiopedia here is my advice for making it all a bit easier for yourself. My main recommendation for anyone supporting a student project in Physiopedia is to become familiar yourself with making edits to pages. The best way to do this is by editing your own Profile page in Physiopedia to include links and images. If you need help with any of this you can refer to the User Tutorials.
It is also worth becoming familiar with creating new pages, adding them as links to your Project page and adding a Templates to those new pages for the students to work from.
- For creating new pages – See creating pages tutorial
- If you would like to use a Template for your project just let me know and I will set one up for you. For adding Templates – see adding Templates tutorial.
- For making the links on your Project page – see making links tutorial
It is also useful for you to know how to add references and videos so that you can help students with these. You can practice any of this in the Sandbox.
After editing your Profile page it is a good idea for you to create an Article in Physiopedia which you can direct your students to as a standard that you would like to see. See the articles from the Texas State Project as an example of some great Articles, they even created their own images and videos!
Then before your students get to work on creating the Articles that you tasked them with it is beneficial to have a familiarisation session in a computer lab. Use this session to go through editing their Profile pages and getting familiar with editing pages, just as you have done following the advice above. These sessions have been proven to be very beneficial in several previous projects and is always something that the students ask for in their feedback.
If you and your students become familiar with editing Physiopedia in this way at the start of your Project the whole experience will become a much greater experience instead of a technological challenge!
Two new projects to get underway this autumn
Having proven itself as a valuable place to share student work we are gearing up for the new semesters with plans of new projects. The first is from Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh, UK and the second is a collaboration with Morphopedics from Marymount University in the US.
Led by Dr Judith Lane, the project from QMU has been developed for second year students on the MSc (pre-registration) Physiotherapy programme at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the module ‘Current and Emerging Roles in Physiotherapy Practice’. The aim of the module is to prepare learners for emerging physiotherapy roles in response to changing healthcare needs, evolving contexts of delivery of practice and government health targets. Read more at the project page…
Morphopedics, led by Dr Jason Craig, is a wiki that parallels the Orthopedics Courses at Marymount University and is used as a resource to enhance learning of orthopedics. Morphopedics aimed to change the traditional learning model into a much more fluid transition of learning with the flow moving from faculty to student, from student to student and from student to faculty. Morphopedics invites everyone involved in the orthopedic class to share their insights and the fruits of their research as we all move towards the goal of becoming more skillful practitioners. In 2011 Jason offered to merge the clinical syndromes that have been produced on Morphopedics by their orthopedic students with the content on Physiopedia. Read more at the project page…
If you would like to find out more about the Projects in Physiopedia have a read of our Projects page, and if this motivates you to enquire about doig your own project in Physiopedia you can discuss it with rachael by email.
