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Glasgow to Grenoble and Back The School of Physiotherapy, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) has just completed its first year in an Erasmusfunded Inter-university Co-operation Programme (CP) with the ccole de MassoKinbsith6rapie (EMK), Grenoble, France. Five years ago discussion first began between the School of Physiotherapy, the Queen’s College, Glasgow and EMK (The Queen’s College and Glasgow Polytechnic amalgamated to form GCU on April 1, 1993). During this time reciprocal visits have been made by staff. Although no European funding was allocated to either school of physiotherapy, the first student exchanges were undertaken on a selffunding basis during the 1991/92 academic session. The two students from each institution undertook two clinical placements in the host country. Each student was treated as a home student. A contract had been signed by the director of each school of physiotherapy to ensure, among the other conditions, that clinical supervision and clinical teaching were undertaken within an agreed structure. Our institutions are two within a much larger ICP administered by a coordinator based at HlPB St Vincentuis, Gent, Belgium. During the academic session 1992/93 GCU has participatedin four programmes. Three of these have been with EMK alone and the fourth was with EMK and HIPB. The first programmc took place in ,November in Glasgow in the form of an intensive programme. Nine students and two teachers came from EMK to learn about the structure of the profession,CSP and CPSM, health care provision and education at undergraduate and postgraduate level both in Scotland and in France. Some GCU second- and third-year students attended the lectures. The French students also experienced
life as a student at GCU by attending practical and theoretical classes on campus and by spending a day shadowing a GCU student on clinical placement. The experience of student life in Glasgow was extended into the evenings, as the French students were accommodated either in students’ flats or in students’ own homes. There was much informal socialising but of the formal social arrangements the ceilidh held on St Andrew’s Night was the outright winner. Never having experienced an evening such as this, the French entered into the spirit and joined in all the dances and the games. There was even a bagpipe solo given by a first-year physiotherapy student at GCU! Two lecturers from GCU spent a week at EMK as part of the staff mobility programme. One of their subject areas is sports injuries and during the week the French students received lectures on tissue mechanics, the mechanics of particular injuries and preventive measures. During practical sessions there was both the theory of adhesive orthoses and practice in the application of adhesive orthoses for specific injuries. Lecturers from HlPB and EMK met with GCU lecturers in Glasgow for the beginning of collaborations over two or three years involving curriculum development in rheumatology. Towards the end of the academic year, students from GCU and EMK were involved in exchanges for clinical placements. There is obviously a much wider education to be experienced when the clinical placement is in a country not your own, with a different language and culture and where the structure of the profession is also different. What a marvellousopportunity to be able to have this experience as an undergraduate!
Where do we go in 1993/94? In its mission statement The Queen’s College had, as a major aim, the wish for staff and students to engage in international ventures whether through student or staff exchanges or shared research programmes. Glasgow’s newest university endorses that policy. As a result we are not only continuing with collaborations with EMK and HlPB but within this current academic year we begin student exchanges with the school of physiotherapy at Universit6 Claude-Bernard in Lyon, France. On a wider front the school of physiotherapy GCU is involved in assisting with diplomate physiotherapy education in Tirana, Albania. These are exciting times for all of us in the physiotherapy profession as with the implementationof the 89/48/EEC Council Directivewe have the right to move freely, as do our fellow European nationals, within the countries of Europe and seek employment.
Lorna Brackenridge
BA MCSP DipTP
Lecturer and European Representative, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
New Home for Manchester School Manchester School of Physiotherapy, which was founded in 1911 at Manchester Royal Infirmary, moved to a newly refurbished complex earlier this year. It was officially opened on September 29. The Manchester School amalgamated with the Withington Hospital School of Physiotherapy in 1990, which doubled its size to 256 students. Its new home is the former out-patient department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, a grade II listed building. It now has two modern lecture theatres fully fitted with videos and projectors, six practical training rooms, a large gym, a 3,000 volume library and a battery of computers. Successful students are awarded a BSc(Hons) degree in physiotherapy from. Manchester University.
IPSA Camp Graduates of the International Physiotherapy Students Association (IPSA) have arranged the annual ski camp at Bruck near Zell am See, Austria, February 19-26, 1994. The nearest airport is Salzburg. The cost will be 460 DM, covering accommodation, meals and ski tickets. There are places for 12 people. Anyone interested is invited to contact Anthony Hegarty MCSP, 8 Rockells Place, Forest Hill Road, London SE22 ORT (tel 081-693 6097).
Endurance Exercise Helps Charity The Royal Marines endurance course on Woodbury Common near Exeter was the scene for a competition in September for teams from business and other organisations to raise money for charity. Shown here are Angela Featherstone
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MCSP of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, who led student physiotherapist Mark Philpott (right) and his brother Julian, a sixth-former. They completed the 2lh-mile course in 25 minutes and came second in their category.
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A €4 million health college for 1,000 preand post-registration students is to be built in Bradford. It will bring together physiotherapy, nursing, midwifery and radiography students now in eight different locations, and is planned to open in September 1995. The project director is Barry Barton, who until this autumn was a CSP Council member.
life as a student at GCU by attending practical and theoretical classes on campus and by spending a day shadowing a GCU student on clinical placement. The experience of student life in Glasgow was extended into the evenings, as the French students were accommodated either in students’ flats or in students’ own homes. There was much informal socialising but of the formal social arrangements the ceilidh held on St Andrew’s Night was the outright winner. Never having experienced an evening such as this, the French entered into the spirit and joined in all the dances and the games. There was even a bagpipe solo given by a first-year physiotherapy student at GCU! Two lecturers from GCU spent a week at EMK as part of the staff mobility programme. One of their subject areas is sports injuries and during the week the French students received lectures on tissue mechanics, the mechanics of particular injuries and preventive measures. During practical sessions there was both the theory of adhesive orthoses and practice in the application of adhesive orthoses for specific injuries. Lecturers from HlPB and EMK met with GCU lecturers in Glasgow for the beginning of collaborations over two or three years involving curriculum development in rheumatology. Towards the end of the academic year, students from GCU and EMK were involved in exchanges for clinical placements. There is obviously a much wider education to be experienced when the clinical placement is in a country not your own, with a different language and culture and where the structure of the profession is also different. What a marvellousopportunity to be able to have this experience as an undergraduate!
Where do we go in 1993/94? In its mission statement The Queen’s College had, as a major aim, the wish for staff and students to engage in international ventures whether through student or staff exchanges or shared research programmes. Glasgow’s newest university endorses that policy. As a result we are not only continuing with collaborations with EMK and HlPB but within this current academic year we begin student exchanges with the school of physiotherapy at Universit6 Claude-Bernard in Lyon, France. On a wider front the school of physiotherapy GCU is involved in assisting with diplomate physiotherapy education in Tirana, Albania. These are exciting times for all of us in the physiotherapy profession as with the implementationof the 89/48/EEC Council Directivewe have the right to move freely, as do our fellow European nationals, within the countries of Europe and seek employment.
Lorna Brackenridge
BA MCSP DipTP
Lecturer and European Representative, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
New Home for Manchester School Manchester School of Physiotherapy, which was founded in 1911 at Manchester Royal Infirmary, moved to a newly refurbished complex earlier this year. It was officially opened on September 29. The Manchester School amalgamated with the Withington Hospital School of Physiotherapy in 1990, which doubled its size to 256 students. Its new home is the former out-patient department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, a grade II listed building. It now has two modern lecture theatres fully fitted with videos and projectors, six practical training rooms, a large gym, a 3,000 volume library and a battery of computers. Successful students are awarded a BSc(Hons) degree in physiotherapy from. Manchester University.
IPSA Camp Graduates of the International Physiotherapy Students Association (IPSA) have arranged the annual ski camp at Bruck near Zell am See, Austria, February 19-26, 1994. The nearest airport is Salzburg. The cost will be 460 DM, covering accommodation, meals and ski tickets. There are places for 12 people. Anyone interested is invited to contact Anthony Hegarty MCSP, 8 Rockells Place, Forest Hill Road, London SE22 ORT (tel 081-693 6097).
Endurance Exercise Helps Charity The Royal Marines endurance course on Woodbury Common near Exeter was the scene for a competition in September for teams from business and other organisations to raise money for charity. Shown here are Angela Featherstone
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MCSP of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, who led student physiotherapist Mark Philpott (right) and his brother Julian, a sixth-former. They completed the 2lh-mile course in 25 minutes and came second in their category.
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Physiotherapy, November 1993, vol79, no 11
A €4 million health college for 1,000 preand post-registration students is to be built in Bradford. It will bring together physiotherapy, nursing, midwifery and radiography students now in eight different locations, and is planned to open in September 1995. The project director is Barry Barton, who until this autumn was a CSP Council member.