First international collaborative student project to go ahead in 2010
We are very excited to announce that the first international collaborative student project will go ahead in February 2010. During this project fourth year physiotherapy students from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa will collaborate with fellow foundation year students from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. The project is being organised and supported by Rachael Lowe, the Physiopedia founder, in collaboration with Michael Rowe from the University of the Western Cape and Aileen Barret from the Royal College of Surgeons.
The project is an elective module where students will be invited to participate. The students will be allocated into groups of four students (two from each nation) and tasked with working together to build pages/content in Physiopedia. The topics that the students will work on will investiate key physiotherapy skills and also explore cultural differences between the nations.
At the end of this project students should be able to:
- Demonstrate evidence based practice skills such as literature searching and critical appraisal
- Demonstrate scientific writing and referencing skills
- Demonstrate an ability to work in teams, agree goals and time frames, roles and responsibilities
- Demonstrate web-editing skills
Students will also have:
- An increased understanding of the clinically related topics that they have investigated
- An insight into the cultural differences in the physiotherapy profession in different nations
- Experience of online collaboration
For more information on this project see the ISP1 page in Physiopedia or follow the #ISP1 in Twitter.
Cirriculum Matters
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have been impressed with the innovative elective module that Aileen Barrett ran for her foundation year students in Physiopedia. In their recent magazine, Cirriculum Matters, they published a small piece about the project that Aileen ran highlighting it’s success. We hope that this will be a lasting partnership between with the RCSI and hope to run more interprofessional student projects with them!
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:
RCSI student project pages
The RCSI student module that has taken place in Physiopedia is now complete. The foundation year students created two new pages, Auscultation and Apley’s Test. They were assessed on their work following a final presentation and the project co-ordinator, Aileen Barrett, was very pleased with the outcome.
The first ever student module in Physiopedia has been a great success. From the feedback that we have received it seems that the students enjoyed the project as did the project co-ordinator. It has been a learning curve for all of us and I will certainly be using the experience to develop a more seamless experience for further educational projects in Physiopedia.
