Practicum Summer 16’: Summary
During my time here at my practicum site which encompasses multiple clinics and a hospital, I have learned seeming to me an extensive amount of priceless hands on experience and information that I could have never accumulated in an average lecture or lab course. Through this experience I have grown closer to my desired profession, found my likes and dislikes, learned a great deal of what accumulates in to what it takes to run a clinic and the extensive hoops you must jump through in order to rehabilitate a patient, and I’ve made a declarative decision on whether or I feel drawn to a profession on the career path of therapy.
Choosing the practicum site was the easy part, in my home town there is a company named Mountain Rehabilitation which does the majority of the therapy in my area, also knowing that they had multiple avenues of therapy while other Physical Therapy …show more content…
I would also set up and put up exercise equipment before and after patient’s appointments. But more often than not I loved my time here with Mountain Rehab, I was able to watch therapists set up and organize exercise prescriptions, evaluate patients on their first visit to asses a “plan of care” for the patient. All different types of modalities I had the privilege to watch and even take part in few of the lesser invasive ones. Something that the common student wouldn’t precieve they would learn or how crucial it is to working in a clinical setting is the interaction between the therapists and the assistants. Coworker interaction and teamwork of the liking is a huge part in delivering the best patient care because it optimizes time and allows every patient to be seen and treated in a given work
During my time here at my practicum site which encompasses multiple clinics and a hospital, I have learned seeming to me an extensive amount of priceless hands on experience and information that I could have never accumulated in an average lecture or lab course. Through this experience I have grown closer to my desired profession, found my likes and dislikes, learned a great deal of what accumulates in to what it takes to run a clinic and the extensive hoops you must jump through in order to rehabilitate a patient, and I’ve made a declarative decision on whether or I feel drawn to a profession on the career path of therapy.
Choosing the practicum site was the easy part, in my home town there is a company named Mountain Rehabilitation which does the majority of the therapy in my area, also knowing that they had multiple avenues of therapy while other Physical Therapy …show more content…
I would also set up and put up exercise equipment before and after patient’s appointments. But more often than not I loved my time here with Mountain Rehab, I was able to watch therapists set up and organize exercise prescriptions, evaluate patients on their first visit to asses a “plan of care” for the patient. All different types of modalities I had the privilege to watch and even take part in few of the lesser invasive ones. Something that the common student wouldn’t precieve they would learn or how crucial it is to working in a clinical setting is the interaction between the therapists and the assistants. Coworker interaction and teamwork of the liking is a huge part in delivering the best patient care because it optimizes time and allows every patient to be seen and treated in a given work