Tag: students
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On Wikipedia as a reference
I’ve only just gotten around to reading the January 2008 edition of “Hands on”, the newsletter of the South Africa Society of Physiotherapy (SASP) and it was with interest that I noticed a citation by the editor (Editor’s note, page 2) for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, only the name of the website (Wikipedia.org) was mentioned and not…
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ICT to support physio students: my presentation at SAAHE
Here is the full content of the presentation I gave at the SAAHE conference on 20 June, 2008. In it I discuss some of the key findings of my Masters thesis, “The use of information and communication technology as a means of providing support to physiotherapy students“. They include: These findings suggest that South African…
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Patient safety: keynote from SAAHE conference
I finally got around to typing up some of my notes from the SAAHE conference. Here is the first keynote address I attended. It was a presentation by Professor Ara Tekian, the Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, entitled “Medical errors and patient safety: teaching and assessing at undergraduate level”. While…
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To err is human: building a safer health system (free book)
While typing up my notes from the SAAHE conference (see previous post), I came across To err is human: building a safer health system, a book that had been mentioned by one of the keynote speakers. It looks at the medical community’s historically poor track record on accepting responsibility for mistakes made by healthcare professionals…
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Textbooks and other resources
I’d like to begin a system of publishing reviews of academic textbooks for physiotherapists and physiotherapy students. This could eventually be expanded to include journal articles, websites and other useful sources of information. Ultimately, I’d like to get the students themselves to take part in this process, informing their own learning through a deeper interaction…