Tag: professional practice
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How to replace a physiotherapist (or any professional, really)
Rowe, M., Nicholls, D. A., & Shaw, J. (2021). How to replace a physiotherapist: Artificial intelligence and the redistribution of expertise. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. I’m really excited to finally share this article that I’ve been working on for a couple of years with David Nicholls and Jay Shaw. I say a couple of years…
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Comment: AI applications taking over professional tasks
Among the many, many tasks required of grade school teachers is that of gauging each student’s reading level, usually by a time-consuming and high-pressure one-on-one examination. Microsoft’s new Reading Progress application takes some of the load off the teacher’s shoulders, allowing kids to do their reading at home and using natural language understanding to help…
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Comment: Will robots make doctors obsolete? Nothing could be further from the truth.
The problem of overdiagnosis is often mentioned in relation to two common cancers: breast and prostate. In both cases, enhanced technology is already detecting small abnormalities that may never result in harm during a lifetime. Machine-learning may trump human interpretation but merely making a diagnosis does not bring us closer to the truth about the…
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Survey: Physiotherapy clinicians’ perceptions of artificial intelligence in clinical practice
We know very little about how physiotherapy clinicians think about the impact of AI-based systems on clinical practice, or how these systems will influence human relationships and professional practice. As a result, we cannot prepare for the changes that are coming to clinical practice and physiotherapy education. The aim of this study is to explore…
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Our students succeed despite their education, not because of it
Note: Thank you to Dave Nicholls from the Critical Physiotherapy Network for his insight and comments that helped inform this post. Foucault said that the most dangerous ideas were the ones that we’re not even aware of; the ones we accept as being fundamentally true. He emphasised the need to examine our everyday practices and to critically analyse the…
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Complexity theory: learning in unfamiliar contexts
The following are notes I took while reading Fraser, SW & Greenhalgh, T. (2001). Coping with complexity: educating for capability. During the past 6 months or so I’ve found myself thinking more and more that the way we teach health professionals (at least, in my experience) has had too much of a focus on technical…
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First article published
I just had my first research article published. It’s based mainly on the literature review I did for my Masters degree last year, with a few updates. It’s strange, but when I submitted it about 6 months ago, I thought it was a reasonable piece of work. Reading it now, I feel like taking it…