Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE) Prep: How To Manage Test Stress and Anxiety

Leading up to any big test like the Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE), it’s common to feel some pre-test anxiety and nerves. We worry about forgetting the information we’ve spent weeks memorizing or encountering questions that we won’t know the answer to. Feeling nervous or anxious before an exam is something that most people can identify […]

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Understanding the 6 Things you Must Know to Succeed in Your Next Physiotherapy Job Interview

Landing a great job not only takes having a great resume and experience, it also takes having a great interview. If you have been bshortlisted for an interview, you likely have most of the skills required for the job. Typically, interviewers are looking for key soft skills you’ll need to succeed in the job and

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Deciphering Physiotherapist Charting Abbreviations: Our Top 40 PT Acronyms

What’s With Physiotherapist Abbreviations? If you ask most physiotherapists, no matter if they work publically, privately, in home care or in the community, they will tell you that the part they love most about their jobs is the patient interaction. But, if you ask them the worst part of their jobs, for most it’ll be

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The Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE): How to Get Through in One Piece

You’ve memorized your theory, wrapped up your course work, passed every test and completed your practicum requirements. So now it’s time to be a real physiotherapist, right?! Not quite yet. Before you are able to put all of that hard work to use, there’s one more hurdle to overcome: The Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE). Getting

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The Best Courses for New Physiotherapist Grads: What Seasoned Clinicians Say

Isn’t it tough starting out? You’re fresh out of physiotherapy school. You’ve passed the PCE, but now the real adventure begins. And the question inevitably comes up: which courses should I be taking? New Physiotherapist Grad Course Recommendations: Where Do You Start? So off I went to look for some answers. I asked a variety

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Finding Freud in Physiotherapy-Part 3

Reconsidering Boundaries Moves Us Forward (Read Part 1 & Part 2 here) Are physiotherapists doing psychotherapy? Applying Frank and Frank’s descriptions, I say yes, physiotherapy treatment can be psychotherapeutic. In my view, psychotherapy is not solely contingent upon the treatment of psychological diagnoses; rather, it is a form of therapy that addresses the psychological factors of a person’s experience. Of

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Finding Freud in Physiotherapy-Part 2

Contextual Theory –An Unexpected Ally Although physiotherapy supports models that acknowledge psychological elements of rehabilitation, it may be surprising that support also comes from psychiatry. American psychiatrists Jerome and Julia Frank broadened the definition of psychotherapy by arguing that it is the healing relationship between a healing agent (therapist) and a sufferer (patient).1 The sufferer, wanting to alleviate disability,

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