Extremely sorry for the late reply, forgot that today is in fact Tuesday and not Monday.
My first placement was a Neuro placement in which another student and I were subjected to three different tutors (2 facility supervisors and 1 CCT) who all had a say in our assessment. This was due to our initial facility supervisor going on holiday half way through the prac. Luckily for us all three tutors were experienced, senior PT's with a ridiculous amount of knowledge and the ability to facilitate (sometimes painfully) a great placement for me. The downside of this situation is that all three tutors had significantly different methods to their madness. These differences encompassed how we recorded and set out our notes, our methods of assessment/treatment and the way we interacted with patients.
This led to the fear that our end of prac assessments would be affected due to the fact that we were expected to learn and re-learn three different ways to achieve the same goal. A Neuro placement is hard enough but on top of that how are we supposed to cater to three different clinicians?
Nonetheless I was able to turn my initial frown upside down. I realised that during the final year of my Physiotherapy course I was being given the opportunity to not only learn from practicing PT's but to experiment with and trial different schools of thought. It is unrealistic to think that all PT's go about their business in the same manner and it is up to the student to be able to analyse these different methods so that by the end of the year we have a basic, yet individual philosophy towards our profession and the manner in which we act.
As for the fear of being given a less than satisfactory final assessment, remember that P's get the degrees. We should concern ourselves with taking as much from our learning experience as we can and maybe not worrying too much about our end of prac assessment as that should sort itself out.
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It is hard when we have several different tutors throughout a placement, and each had their own unique way of treating or performing a technique. I guess as students we need to be versatile and be able to adapt to different ways of thinking, and it is great that rather than getting down about it and stressing about the fairness of the final assessment you were able to turn it into a positive learning opportunity, and a chance to learn lots of different ways to do something, a great skill for future practice.
Its good to find out why different tutors do things different ways- helps one form ones own priorities and refine ones own skills.
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