Junior rotations?

[chris]

Hello,

I'm thinking about not doing the junior rotations when i graduate next year and going into musculoskeletal straight away. Can i get just as good training by going down this road and doing private courses?

Thanks,

Chris

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[Physiobase]

Definately not. The junior rotations are the only way to gain an indepth understanding of typical patient presentations from the vast gamet of systemic illness presentations. If you miss out on doing the hospital rotations through general surgery, respiratory med, vascular, cardiothoracics, neuro, paeds etc etc then you will become an outpatient PT who lacks the necessary understanding of systemic illness presentation that often mimic musculoskeletal complaints.

I once thought like you and wanted to go directly into sport physio, forgetting any hospital time. Thank whoever though that I did do some extensive hospital time and to be honest I perhaps miss that time more than anything else. Not the politics of course, just the variety of patients from which to learn.

[physioo]

so how would u explain the canadian system then?

here in canada, physios go straiht in 1 field usually, and lots of clinics are working with new grads! here there is no rotation system

so although i understand ur point, it might not make 100% sense