I have just completed a degree and I agree with Fyzzio, that it would be very helpful to have a professional from all other areas to come and give a talk for half a day to the university, as learning about the mdt roles on placement takes up a lot of time from developing management skills and real hands on experience.

Having said this, hands on skills are lacking, and everyone on my course I spoke to agrees that more hands on learning is needed. I have just done a sports massage course, and it is this which has given me confidence to correct people's posture, not anything I learned on the physio course. The physio course is great for learning most anatomy, physiology, pathologies, and communication and presenting skills is emphasised.

I also think that exercise therapy is behind on the nhs funded course I did. There are functional exercise courses out there which personal trainers are going on, which are based on the chains of soft tissue which connect the muscles and linked the movements together. These personal trainers are getting stroke patients running again. This should be the physio's job! Massage therapists are also getting range of movement back in stroke patients arms with their soft tissue work. I am surprised that the anatomy trains or meridian lines are not taught at least, as they are basic knowledge for exercises prescription, along with muscle energy techniques, which are also not taught. The evidence is there in dissections and research in hands on massage therapies which use the principles of these connections, including yoga for example. Other people are doing our job for us it seems in the Msk arena at least.