100 article milestone broken!
This rolling stone hasn’t had a chance to gather any moss recently! We are delighted to announce that we now have over 100 great articles full of content. Mainly in the musculoskeletal field and with special thanks to the efforts of the students at the Mediacl College of Georgia and Evidence in Motion our content is rapidly growing.
The educational projects that have taken place in Physiopedia have so far been a great success, and initial feedback from the students and tutors has been resoundingly positive. We hope that other institutions will be encouraged by the success of these projects and join us in this global collaborative effort. It’s not all about educational institutions though, there are many other opportunities to be involved either as an individual or as a health care organisation. For individuals writing, reviewing and updating pages in Physiopedia is a great continuing education and professional development activity, and for physiotherapy and physical therapy departments and clinics Physiopedia is an innovative tool for staff and service development projects, see our Health Organisations Guide for more information on this.
So join us, encourage others, spread the word, let’s keep that stone rolling!!
Medical College of Georgia student project
In the most ambitious project to date in Physiopedia, Eric Robertson (with the help of our featured contributor Tyler Shultz!) has directed his DPT students to create some great new pages as part of their recent spinal course. The students were allowed to select of spine topic of their choice and the assignment was very non-prescriptive in nature, allowing the students the opportunity to decide what content would best make their page. Many made their own videos and took their own pictures to upload which we are very impressed with! Once they got past the initial learning curve, the students really enjoyed making the content. One student posted on twitter that this “really was a neat way to learn.” I hope the pages they created will be a nice resource for many physios!
Take a look at he pages they created:
- Neck Pain Clinical Guidelines
- Sacroiliac Joint
- Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Straight Leg Raise Test
- Femoral Nerve Tension Test
- Spinal Stenosis
- Transverse Ligament Stress Test
- Gaenslen Test
- Spinal_Stabilization
- Prone Instability Test
- Spinal Manipulation
- Slump Test
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Lumbur Radiculopathy
- Waddels Sign
- Hoover Test
- Spurlings Test
New profile pages for partnering institutions
In these early days of Physiopedia we are very pleased to have partnered with our first group of educational institutions. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Evidence in Motion, Regis University and the Medical College of Georgia have all been innovative and enthusiastic in their commitment to this open access project. We have been working with them to create assignments and modules for their students to complete within Physiopedia or to donate valuable content created by their students to Physiopedia.
As well as acknowledging these partnering institutions on the acknowledgements page we have now given them a profile page of their own. This allows us to inform our readers a little more about our partnering instituitons, provides a place to publish the way in which these institutions are collaborating with Physiopedia and link to the work that their students have completed.
See what our partnering institutions have been up to:
