Hello all
Hi I too graduated in India and am currently working in the UK.
I did my BPT in Mangalore which is one of the citys in India with a huge physio population...
I can certainly understand the plight of the newly qualified physios and i have been through the same tantrum......My freinds and myself have spent hours discussing about this issues and the possible solutions to it.
This was 3 years ago
Now after I came to Uk and worked here....I certainly feel so sure that we are deprived of a lot of things in India......
I am positive about the curriculum but i have concerns about the scope of practise and the amount of clinical exposure we are entitled. I also have concerns regarding practise standards in India....the lack of research and resourses...... and the need for a continous CPD.
I am glad that we have a lot of physios doing their master degrees in India but again when you compare the amount of curriculum covered and the extent of research done...the Indian masters needs to improve.
I completly agree the need of a council and/or a regulatory body whichcan set standards of practise for all the physios....but its all about implementation of such plans
The Indian Association of physiotherapists are trying their best to get this matter sorted out but there is a lot of manipulations at higher levels.....
So as a member of IAP...i feel that if we have very able and sincere leaders we can get ourself a good solution to this problem...The government will respond to statistics....We need to document the effect of physiotherapy and its use in the current medical profession...We should prove that physiotherapy can reduce hospital stay and save millions for the public.....but will the private sector approve of this huge "saving" plan.
And with corruption running so high the chances of government approving more physiotherapy vacancies......LOW.

In UK there is a National Health Service which funds the Hospitals and medical treatment is free to the public. So it is a need for the government to save money and so all AHP's enjoy a good job standing.... Will this situation happen in INDIA?......Will India have resourses so as to freely treat 100 billion people.....I dont think so that this will happen in the near future.

Physios in India are so desparate to get a job that they work for free in many hospitals.......This is again so demoralising to our profession...but neverthe less...something is better than nothing....We cannot blame them as it is very essential to gain that experience....

Salaries in india .......again the problems lie in the basic infrastructure........In the UK if the physio manage to prevent the patient meeting a consultant....the government saves 200 pounds..and if the physio manages to do that for 5 patients a day...he saves the govt 1000 pounds a day...and 30000 pounds a month ...which is the ANNUAL income for a physio in UK
In india if the patients gets discharged fast the hospital does not make a profit........so why should a physio facilitate discharge?....our profession is therefore used as an adjunct....and the management is really interested in the pain releiving...and short exercise spells....but not the rehabilitation.....
So dear friends...I can go on...but whats the point......I certainly feel that even if a council comes....with the current saturation level in our profession....there wont be much of a difference.....
We need brilliant institutions, brilliant mentors and we need to be highly specialised. We have to gain those skills and pass it on to the next generation...also we must emphasis on research and self development......All this will make us good clinicians and good professionals....then just keep ur fingers crossed.....maybe things will change......But if u cant change the system...then dont flow along with it....get out of it and search for greener pastures....It will be tough......but there is a saying
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH...THE TOUGH GETS GOING

cheers everyone