Hi everyone. I hope this is ok, as I thought this would be a great place to ask advice. After several years of hiding away from my old life as an Occupational Therapist I somehow have become involved with a training course for health students . I have to say … I have been very brave and used my brain ( very shocked it still worked !!) and completed a couple of talks to students about ms and stuff you don’t read in the books.
So I have been asked to think about how ’ services user’ / ’ patients’ or whatever we are referred to as these days could be involved with students training on placements . I started thinking about my experiences as a student, then being monitored/ assessed / observed by a student and just thought I would ask everyone else about their experiences or what you think about it.
I came to the conclusion that the student is there to train as a nurse, ot, physio, social worker but reason the student is there is for the person so surely that person should be involved with the feedback to their learning/ actions or what they should learn etc.
There are so many tick boxes etc that surely the person who is benefiting ( well hopefully) from the student should say … Well they need to improve on or learn about that …etc.
Any ideas, thoughts, experiences ??? I would be grateful for your opinions.
My Dr`s surgery asked me if I would come in and talk to some students,they paid me a taxi there and back as I cannot drive.I had two students came into the room talked about how It started and how it was progressing,they also gave me the once over.At the end they said they had learned quite a bit so very worth while going.Only gripe I was promised a coffee and never got one Lol.
I live near a training college that has an Occupational Therapy dept. For a small fee, senior students would examine the patient, then discuss their findings and the appropriate treatment with a tutor. They would then, under the supervision of their tutor, treat the patient.
Earlier this year I had a pain in my right hip. I made an appointment as I’d had good outcomes on a previous occasion. They diagnosed the psoas muscle was the cause and gave me a exercise to do. A week later I still had a problem walking and went back for a follow up. They told me to stick with the exercise.
I mentioned this to my Tai Chi instructor. He gave me one exercise to do and the muscle returned to normal before the end of that day. My instructor didn’t seem at all surprised that his treatment was so much more effective that conventional medical practise.
How does this affect your ideas, thoughts & experiences Alexa?