Undertaking postgraduate masters or an alternative pathway to being a Australian Physiotherapy Association Titled physiotherapist requires significant self reflection and development of knowledge and clinical reasoning.
Clinical Mentoring and Tutoring sessions are an invaluable way to get individualised feedback, with practical strategies to help you reflect on and improve you clinical and professional practice.
If you're reading this page, you're likely thinking about pursuing a formal pathway in your physiotherapy career. Undertaking a post graduate masters or Australian Physiotherapy Association Titling pathway is an incredibly rewarding and satisfying part of your physiotherapy career. There are obvious benefits to patients and their management. But it also results in professional recognition of your skills, and improved work and financial opportunities across clinical, sports and performance domains, teaching and research.
Why choose mentoring instead of professional development courses?
Professional development short courses are often a necessary part of your studies. But on their own, the knowledge delivered by the courses is not enough to change your clinical practice. Individualised clinical mentoring ensures this course content can be applied week on week in the clinic, and assimilated into your practice as required. Furthermore, Jennifer Callaghan is a current presenter on the Australian Physiotherapy Association Spinal Courses, so she knows what is currently taught in the professional development course landscape within Australia.
Advanced clinical reasoning is a key focus of formal postgraduate studies in physiotherapy. We use several strategies to support this aim. This includes direct discussion of knowledge, research and additional resources to support your learning, case discussions and examples, mock and peer reviewed assessments, and viva practice.
If you're contemplating or completing your masters or titling pathways, mentoring sessions can address whatever area of practice is relevant to you. If you’re not sure specifically what that is yet, that is quite ok – we can discuss some cases / aspects of practice that help work this out.
If you are seeking clinical mentoring to support your postgraduate studies, please book with Jennifer Callaghan. She has 2 post graduate masters degrees in both musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy. She is also a registrar in the Australian College of Physiotherapists specialisation program. This rigorous 2 year mentoring program develops an expert standard of physiotherapy skill, in addition to teaching, research and mentoring across the physiotherapy profession. Of the 30 thousand plus physiotherapists in Australia, there are just under 100 musculoskeletal specialist physiotherapists. Jennifer is training to be part of this group.
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