Projects

Educational and professional development projects have been taking place in Physiopedia since it's launch in 2009.  These projects are led by institutions, organisations or individuals and involve pre and post registration students as part of a formal educational assignment or clinicians as part of a professional development project.

Projects:
About Physiopedia Projects	Current Projects
Project Ideas	Ongoing Projects
Guide to Starting a Project	Previous Projects

About Physiopedia Projects

Physiopedia is a wiki.  A wiki is a collection of web pages that can be collaboratively edited with no specialist tools and very little technical know-how. As such, Physiopedia is perfectly suited to collaborative group authoring and offers a place for physiotherapists throughout the world to contribute, share, and gain knowledge as part of a formal project.

The feedback that we have gathered from projects leads and those taking part has been overwhelmingly positive.  Project participants really appreciate the fact that their work does not just get filed away for no-one else to see but is making a positive and lasting contribution to the profession through it's addition to this resource.

Highlighted below are current projects that are taking place within Physiopedia, and also previous projects that have been completed. If you would like more ideas for the types of project that Physiopedia is suited to visit our Project Ideas page.

If you would like to organise a project within Physiopedia please don't hesitate to get in touch either by the contact page or directly to Rachael Lowe by email.  

Future Projects

Led by Judith Lane, this project 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. Go to the project home page...

Led by Dan Rhon, This project was created by and for the Fellows of the Evidence In Motion Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship Project. Go to the project home page...

Current Projects

No projects currently underway

Ongoing Projects

Led by Peter Vaes, This project was created by and for the students in the Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy program of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Go to the project home page...

Elaine Lonnemann's students at the University of St. Augustine in St. Augustine Florida are currently completing the project - Worldwide Physical Therapy Practice: a focus on Primary Care Physical Therapy

Elaine Lonnemann's students at Bellarmine University are currently completing the project -  Physiopedia Assignment for the Course: Teaching and Learning in Physical Therapy Practice

The clinical educators affiliated with the Physical Therapy Program at Bellarmine University are currently completing the project - Clinical Case Presentations Continuing Education Opportunity for Physical Therapists with Dr. Elaine Lonnemann

Elaine Lonnemann's students at the Bellarmine University have created a plethora of new pages related to their second year project - Pathophysiology of Complex Patient Problems.

Previous Projects

This project is a merger of the physiotherapy wiki project, Open Physio and Physiopedia. Read more about this collaboration...

Claire Adams and her fellow group members made innovative use of Physiopedia for a final year project at University College Dublin.  Go to the project page... to find out more.

Led by Scott Burns, This project was created by and for the students at Temple University in Philadelphia, and is part of the Orthopaedic curriculum. Go to the project home page...

Led by Eric Robertson, This project was created by and for the students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Texas State University -San Marcos, and is part of the Orthopaedic curriculum. Go to the project home page...

Led by Bhanu Ramaswamy, AGILE will be working on creating a stuctured and evidence based Older People section of Physiopedia. The section will be divided in numbers of articles under the sub-headings: Policy, Physiology and Physiotherapy and eventually aims to involve the international community of physiotherapists and physical therapists working with older people. Go to the project home page...

Aileen Barrett's students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have created a new page on The role and function of Primary Care Teams in Ireland as part of an elective module in their foundation year.  See more about their project here...

Evidence in Motion Residents each added two pages of new content in Physiopedia as part of the capstone course in their residency training. See more here...

Eric Robertson's DPT students at the Medical college of Georgia have just completed a whole new set of pages as part of their spinal course.  See more here...

Aileen Barrett's students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have created new pages for Apley's Test and Auscultation as part of an elective module in their foundation year. See more about their project here..