Lower Limb Amputee Rehabilitation Course - Evaluation Report

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Lower Limb Amputee Rehabilitation Final Report (June – August 2015)

Run in collaboration with and funded by the International Committee of the Red Cross

Course co-ordinators: Rachael Lowe(Physiopedia) and Barbara Rau (ICRC)

Course facilitators: Leslie Muller, Aicha Benyaich, Francois Friedel

Course sponsor: CR Equipements

Contents :

• Overview
• Cost to participants
• Characteristics of participants
• Aim of the course
• Platform
• Communication with participants
• Course textbooks
• Discussion forum
• Quizzes
• Final assignment
• Assessment
• Certificates
• Accreditation
• Course evaluation
• Impact of group work
• Impact on clinical practice
• Future
• Contact details
• Appendix 1 –Course participants: countries
• Appendix 2 – Course participants:profession
• Appendix 3 – Course participants: experience
• Appendix 4 – Case presentations provided for final assignment
• Appendix 5 – Course evaluation: specific responses
• Appendix 6 – Course evaluation: what worked well
• Appendix 7 – Course evaluation: what didn’t work well
• Appendix 8 - Course evaluation: examples of group work
• Appendix 9 – Course evaluation: selected testimonials
• Appendix 10 – Known examples of impact on clinical practice

Overview

Course Type - Open, Online

Course Co-ordinators - Barbara Rau, Rachael Lowe

Collaborating Partners - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Physiopedia

About this course - This online course covers basic theoretical knowledge of lower limb amputee rehabilitation

Who was invited to take part - Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants; other interested professionals such as prosthetists/orthotists, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are more than welcome to participate.

Date that it ran – 1 June to 26 July 2015

Time commitment - 24 hours over 8 weeks Requirements – Participants were required to complete online learning activities, engage with additional resources, take part in the conversation online and complete the course evaluation.

Assessment - There was a final quiz and participants were asked to write a case study on an individual with amputation.

Awards - Completion certificate plus 24 International Physical Therapy Continuing Education Units from the World Confederation of Physical Therapy (WCPT)

Cost to participants

The course was free to all participants

Characteristics of the participants

Ultimately, 7639 participants formally registered for the course. They were from 150 countries (see Appendix 1), were mainly working physiotherapists (see Appendix 2 and 3) and had a mix of experience (see Appendix 4). The most represented countries were:

United Kingdom USA	918 820
Canada	583
Australia India	537 441
Nigeria	252
Malaysia	235
South Africa	202
Philippines	185
Pakistan	166

Aim of the course

This course was aimed to provide workforce training for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The aims of this course were to:

1. provide participants with general knowledge about lower limb amputation,

2. present aspects of prosthetics and prosthetic fitting,

3. highlight the importance of a comprehensive approach of rehabilitation (from pre surgical activities to discharge and follow up),

4. present the overall rehabilitation process specificities, and

5. offer a worldwide discussion platform on lower limb amputee rehabilitation

Platform

The course was run through the Physiopedia website where all course pages were (and remain) openly available. These course pages were visited a total of 125,487 times through the duration of the course (I June – 26 July 2015). The breakdown is shown below: