What type of info would you like me to provide? There are so many! Also, I'm waiting for tomorrow as the written exam results will be out for the candidates that tried last September. This is the first exam done with the help of this group. We hope to have given enough guidelines to allow these candidates to be successful.
It would be great firstly to hear what you guys have found out and what has really been a challenge. The good and the bad and any solutions you have come up with. We have a study group on the site working for USA exams and this is well supported outside of this site as well.

If you could perhaps share a topic or two that have really provoked good dicussion and input from your members. Then we can perhaps provide more input from the members and reader of this site. We have a large number of Australian's (about 7000) that read the weekly eNews.

On a more serious note and being a graduate from Australia (now living and practising in London) I would like to say that Physiotherapy is a 4 year degree course that is perhaps the most sort after degree in the country. You must be in the top 2-3% academically in the country to gain a place to study it and the drop our rate is high and the first year failure rate is also such that in my year we lost about 25% between the start and finish of the course. The skills taught are excellent and the amount of work and syllabus is extensive. This is why Aussie physio's are so well reguarded overseas and they can get a job just about anywhere. This is not to say that other countries don't provide individuals with similar abilities but more that the level and extensiveness of training does not match that in Australia. This is one reason why the exams are considered by some to be difficult. To a new graduate from Australia they are actually not that difficult but unfortunately to maintain the level of skill and expertise within the country they do have to make the exams at the same level as that of the existing graduates. That said there are always things that registration boards do to just make it more difficult, to discourage and let's face it, to limit the amount of foreign trained workers to continue to provide jobs for their own candidates. This is a very real situation in the UK right now. Even the poor Aussies are not finding jobs over here right now.

As a community forum we would love to try to assist where possible, to provide some local insight where possible, to hear about others solutions but most of all to help us all work in the capacity we have been trained and hopefully in the part of the world we feel comfortable. I look forward to hearing more from your group and we wish you guys the best in the up coming exam results.