Congrats Physio88,

Thanks Drdamien for your comments - i endorse them...

My take is a little different...

1. Be teachable - your senior physio should help you if you are however...
2. Fake it until you make it - supreme confidence in what you know is essential until you know more. Patients don't get better if they sense you don't know what is going on...so make a decision and test it. If you don't know, be honest and ask for help but be confident in "not knowing"...does that make sense? If you say "yeah, ummm, i'm not really sure", that is not inspiring at all. However a confident "you know what, i am good at what i know but in this case, i am not sure what is going so i am going to get someone who does know". The patient will appreciate that you are big enough to know what your limitations are but will also trust you when you do appear to know what is going on in other areas...
3. Don't get side-tracked by their symptoms but rather use all the evidence you are gathering to tell the story. e.g. low back pain - standard treatment = mobilisation to L/S, H/P, IFC, etc etc, exercises, core staiblity retraining etc. But a better way is to ask "why is the back sore?". Look at their posture. Look at their hips and lower limb kinetic chain in functional motion. All these things help.
4. Go on courses - choose ones that are recommended - i recommend Manual Concepts and Discover Physio - Diane Lee and LJ Lee
5. Learn from everyone - even if it is how NOT to do something!

Cheers