Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Too many cooks spoil the broth?

I have had a couple of placements now where I have had numerous supervisors. Whilst this annoyed me originally because i was never sure who i was supposed to be reporting to and i felt like i was sometimes getting conflicting opinions, I now think that it is not necessaily a bad thing. I now realise that having input from as many physios as you are learning can only be a positive thing. It is great to watch how each physio approaches a situation and what treatment techniques they use. It is learning from these physios, as well as PD after we graduate that is going to shape the physios that we are going to be in the future. In my last placement alone I had two supervisors who had very different treatment techniques, both of which are effective. They were both willing to help me and demonstrate to me any techniques that I was interested in and I feel that it will only stand me in better stead for when I graduate.

1 comment:

  1. I agree that it can be very frustrating when you are getting conflicting information from different supervisors, especially when one of them is the one who only takes you for your exam patient. So for your whole placement you are having to adhere to the opinions of your clinical supervisor and then have to change your approach on the spot for your exam patient. However i think that you're right in that it probably helps us in the long run by giving us a range of different approaches that we can choose from.

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