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Please comment on the IFOMPT Generative Conversations discussion document

Dec 5, 2024

in AI, Conference, Physiotherapy

community, conversation, discussion document, generative AI, guidance document, healthcare professional, IFOMPT, physiotherapist, physiotherapy, pre-conference workshop, profession, survey

This post is an invitation to the wider physiotherapy community, asking colleagues to comment on a discussion document aimed at stimulating conversation about generative AI in the profession.
Questioning our most sacred beliefs

Jan 22, 2024

in Note

academia, beliefs, critical pedagogy, profession

What are people in your field religious about, in the sense of being too attached to some principle that might not be as self-evident as they think? What becomes possible if you discard it? Paul Graham. How to do Great Work. I love this essay by Paul Graham, especially this excerpt where he asks what…
Exposing the culture of professional practice

Nov 27, 2012

in Curriculum, Physiotherapy

becoming, belief systems, community, culture, language, norms, profession, social networks, values

I often forget that learning is not only mediated by social relationships, but by cultural relationships as well. To a large degree we are the products of influence that emerge from interactions between thousands of variables within our families, groups of friends, communities, religions and countries. The process of becoming a physiotherapist is also embedded within…