Done! One would think so anyways, considering that we are days away from our project deadline. And as far as our professional assignment project (PAP) is concerned, getPTsmart.com is receiving it’s finishing touch today. However, we must have tickled the right spots on some professionals dealing with clinical reasoning, resulting in ongoing conversation with various [...]
Feedback collection & implementation
To make sure we’re developing a website that lives up to its purpose and works for the target group (students on the final year of their entry level diploma and novice PTs), we worked closely with our prospective users during the making of getPTsmart.com. In total we had 20+ meetings with professionals, including meetings with [...]
getPTsmart.com way of learning
In this blog post we go further into why we have developed getPTsmart.com the way we have. Clinical teaching in clinical setting is at the centre of medical education. However, as the clinic is the site of practice as well as of learning, conflicts of interest often emerge (Spencer in Grant 2008)
Resources for learning more
This post is for those of you who want to dive further into reading more about different topics related to learning and teaching clinical reasoning. Below we share the references for the literature we have spent hours after hours reading and making notes on and finally based different aspects of this project on. It is [...]
The case studies
Many students find the HOAC II algorithm a little (or a lot) intimidating when they (us included) first see it. At first sight the algorithm may seem a little too massive and many find it hard to grasp how to apply the algorithm in practice. Our idea here on getPTsmart.com is to chop the HOAC [...]
Why the HOAC II?
We have very good reasons to use the HOAC II as the clinical reasoning framework on getPTsmart.com. Here are the most important ones: The HOAC II is a conceptual framework. As a conceptual framework it provides a logical structure and a guideline that helps PTs develop comprehensive and coherent plans…
The Canvas creation
In this little post we will take you from the first scribbles, through the rigid mid-phase all the way to the status-quo of the Canvas. We have put countless hours of tea- and chocolate-driven brain work into the creation of our “PT Client Management Canvas”, which, to safe the tongue-twisting nature of the title, we [...]
The birth of getPTsmart.com
Hi, We’re very glad to find you here. This is the story of how getPTsmart.com came to be. When we first started to think about our professional assignment project topic in March 2011, we had some ideas about getting into research about taping, low back pain or exercise adherence and also thought of dissecting a [...]
Why all this?
As soon-to-be physical therapists, we felt the burning need to develop our own clinical reasoning skills. Working with paper case studies was a major focus in our second year courses and we came to the conclusion that it was unnecessarily difficult to make order out of the data chaos. We had our first encounter with [...]
