NZ application

[physiomitch]

Thanks, as I thought. As you can see from other threads, I have been in private practice for 16 years, and some of us obviously battled a bit for evidence as we could not use our uni curriculum, so it all had to come down to experience in the fields. I have done a course on Cardio-resp lately to update myself and have doen 6 hours of prac/observation at a local hospital to add clout to my competencies. Otherwise I am doing case studies for all the 3 fields, work I have done and case studies from observations/patient notes, and reflective statements. I noted from another thread that one chap had about 400 pages in his portfolio, not sure if I can get that many but will try my best to provide accurate evidence.

Thanks for the help

[physiomitch]

Hi Fyzzio

I have heard it may be a good idea to collect all the "Work History Validation forms" from those I am asking to reference for me, and send them off with my registration pack. Is this a wise move. My concern is I am trying to layout my whole portfolio, and am needing these validations as evidence, but cannot reference something I have not given page numbers to, unless I just put a number on each envelope (I intend to leave them unopened). Did you have seperate references/testimonials from colleagues/advisors/lecturers apart from the validation forms?

Cheers

[Fyzzio]

Hi,
it's been quite a while since I applied for registration. There were no "validation of work history" templates around, as I have seen in the current application package.
So, cannot say how you best refer to the references. Mine were part of my "numbered" system.
BUT: If you leave them unopened, you cannot refer to them - as you don't know what they say. So, why don't you just use them as what they are = validation of employment record.
And as evidence use additional stuff like performance appraisals, feedback on IST sessions that you have given, rotational objectives sign off, ?on-call competencies, training records, peer reviews etc..

? Does this help?
Cheers,
Fyzzio

[physiomitch]

Cheers Fyzzio

I will probably open them and use as evidence to refer to. Makes more sense. In final stages now so hope to have this off before end of year.

Regards