This page shows the active posts in the category Education and Training. Posts in this category concern education and training of professionals specialising in rehabilitation. There is a focus on medical training of doctors because it is the only profession with training leading to official recognition of expertise. However increasingly it is covering training in rehabilitation across all professions.
Trust is central to all healthcare. A patient trusts the doctor’s diagnosis and recommendations. The doctor relies on a radiologist to read the image correctly. …
Clinical Rehabilitation, the journal I have edited from 1994 to 2021, rejects about 88% of all submissions. Rejections fall into two groups. Many papers are …
Rehabilitation is not therapy, and therapy is not rehabilitation. Rehabilitation expertise is the second area of expertise acquired by some people working within healthcare. Unfortunately, …
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is a well designed, useful piece of legislation that governs decision-making for people who lack the mental ability to make …
Mosr professions initially developed on the basis of trust. Examinations were rare. Doctors (and other professions) learned through experience. For healthcare, as science advanced and …
The role of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner could be characterised as a role searching for a purpose. This post suggests a purpose, to meet the …
Today (May 26th 2021) I attended a Zoom-based seminar on Social Care research run by the Research Design Service (South Central) of the National Institute …
I was asked, on Twitter by Jacqui Wheatcroft: “I wondered about the references to support the inclusion of each area in the mind map?” (shown …
This post concerns training in and education about empathy in the practice and delivery of rehabilitation. This blog suggests that education to increase empathy is …
The published paper featured in this post illustrates many features of a good rehabilitation research paper. (A shame it was not published in a rehabilitation …
Competency as a concept used within training and education was introduced in 1973. It is now used in many spheres, not simply health. A recent …
I am currently involved in writing a syllabus for doctors training in Rehabilitation Medicine in the UK. This has involved considerable discussion within the group …
I am writing a syllabus for doctors training in Rehabilitation Medicine. The syllabus will cover, among other things, the knowledge people need. The working party …
For many years there has been a grumbling level of dissatisfaction with training in Rehabilitation Medicine within the UK. Having just finished my fifth or …