NZ reg: more than 10 years in private practice

[physiomitch]

Hi Chris

I had my application returned with requests for more detailed syllabus and transcripts from my UNi, which they cannot provide...so I will be giving covering letters from them and the head of the Physio school at the time to back it up. They also asked me to do my competencies with reference to the NZ competencies, so I guess mine did not relate closely enough to the NZ comps. I have since sent an email to them and got a return email giving me a long schpeel about what is needed, a lot of what is already said, however they did say the the competencies should be done in such a way as to write the 10 headings down and show competency for each one. So again it sounds as if we need to give some form of evidence as to our competencies for all 10 but for 1 to 4 and 10.5 (that is what they said, not 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 or 10.4) we need to show autonomous practice in the 3 fields of Physio, nmly Cardio, Neuro and MSK. So what I did was under each of these write 3 headings, General ( a short description of how I feel I was compitent), Cardiopulmonary, Neurologica and Musculo-skeletal. Under each of these I described what I have done, am doing and will be doing with evidence given such as courses, case studies, work validations, etc.

I will, however also be sending in my large draft of the competencies which covers ALL the 10 comps plus all the sub-comps, just in case...

In answer to your question, in the shorter version, I just spoke about reading research, journals, internet articles, how they affected my practice. I also did a small project of my own using some of my patient records, just to show I understand the layout and formulation and I got a colleague to critique it. This I will use as evidence. As for the specific 8.3, I just wrote something about how I read research papers, etc and personally I teach Physios so I used that as a part of research evidence.

Keep looking at the FAQ pdf file they supply, esp when it concerns research, and also use the indicators given in the comp list to get an idea as to what to write.

Hope that helps

Pete

[Fyzzio]

Hi,
re competency 8: you could also state the format/ tool which you usually use to critque articles, any presentation that you have done, which includes a reference list, a certified list of journal clubs which you have attended or presented at and references which state that you regulary participate in literature reviews.

In NZ, we have to prove CPD via a logbook in a three year cycle. One of the categories is self-directed learning. All the above are accepted under this category and I guess the same counts for the competencies for foreign applicants.

Just a warning: the topic of a recent Physioboard newsletter was "Ethics". Apparently, any document containing patient information/ any clinical details (even if anonymous), that is published without patient consent, risks breach of ethical conduct. So, I would recommend to stay away from actual case presentations, unless you have consent to share them.

Cheers,
Physio

[chrisphysio]

OK thanks for the info and espec about the 'thics' part.

I was actually going to get some letters from my patients talking about what physio they had and the benefit of it.

I'll have to use case studies because I don't have the regular 4 monthly junior rotation appraisals but I will bear in mind what you say.

thanks
Chris