User:Ines Musabyemariya
About Me[edit | edit source]
My name is Ines MUSABYEMARIYA. I am a physiotherapist with 14 years of clinical experience. I have worked in different health facilities in Rwanda: District hospital, a specialized orthopedic hospital, and a pediatric rehabilitation center.
I also have experience managing a five-year national-level development project entitled "Development of Functional Rehabilitation in Rwanda" funded by the Humanity & Inclusion, Rwanda Program.
During my professional career, I have acquired additional skills: Advocacy, designing continuing education courses in pediatric physical therapy for rehabilitation professionals, writing grant proposals, developing, and conducting project monitoring and evaluation tasks, and report writing.
Having gained expertise and knowledge throughout my professional career, I took an initiative to establish the Heroes Rwanda. This center offers a wide range of rehabilitative services including Education, aimed at providing quality mainstream education to children with disabilities in Kigali.
I switched to the humanitarian field in 2022, and now work as a physical therapist for the International Committee of the Red Cross, based in Tindouf - Algeria in 2022- 2023, and currently Saada Yemen from June 2023- December 2024.
Education[edit | edit source]
2014, Bachelor with honors in Physiotherapy Sciences from University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences
2019, Postgraduate inter-university certificate: Initiation à la Recherche pour le renforcement des Systèmes de Santé (RSS) Université Libre de Bruxelles- Belgique.
From 2022- 2023, master's degree in public health: Mount Kenya University
Physiopedia Badges[edit | edit source]
Professional Affiliations[edit | edit source]
Rwanda Physical Therapy Organization (RPTO)
Rwanda Allied Health Professions Council (RAHPC)
Publications[edit | edit source]
- The use of digital rehabilitation and its implication in enhancing continuity of care among users of physiotherapy services in Rwanda.
- A global health training model for teaching pediatric clinical decision-making skills to Rwandan physical therapists.
- Using patient-reported outcome measures to promote patient-centered practice: Building capacity among pediatric physiotherapists in Rwanda.
- Provision and use of physical rehabilitation services for adults with disabilities in Rwanda: A descriptive study.
- Stakeholders' Contribution to the Development of Occupational Therapy Profession and Impact of the Profession in Rwanda.
- The psychosocial determinants of adherence to home-based rehabilitation strategies in parents of children with cerebral palsy: A systematic review
Professional Conferences attended[edit | edit source]
- 2023: Participated in World Physiotherapy Conference held in DUBAI, an a speaker and presenter for the session: HEALTH LITERACY: WHAT DO PATIENTS NEED?
- 2021: Participated in an online World Confederation for Physical Therapy conference held online where I presented an e-poster on ‘The use of digital rehabilitation and its implication in enhancing continuity of care among users of physiotherapy services in Rwanda’.
- 2019: Participation in World Confederation for Physical Therapy conference held in Geneva, Switzerland – 2019. Presented two e-posters:
- An e-poster on “Create Your Own Job - A Workshop to Kickstart Entrepreneurial Mindset and Mentorship of Rwandese Physiotherapists: A Danish/Rwandese Collaboration.”
- “Building Long-term capacity of Clinical Decision-Making Skills in a Low Resource Setting: A Continuing Professional Development Course Evaluation.”
- 2018: Participation in World Federation of Occupational Therapists congress held in Cape Town, South Africa – 2018.
- 2017: Participation in World Confederation for Physical Therapy congress held in Cape Town, South Africa – 2017. Presented an e-poster for the abstract, “A Global Health Initiative for Teaching Pediatric Clinical Decision-Making Skills to Rwandan Physical Therapists: An Education Process Case Report.”
