The Readiness of Australian Health Care Students to Encounter Patients Experiencing Partner Abuse.

Partner abuse is a significant contributor to mortality and morbidity worldwide, and has been identified as a priority health care issue. Most health care students rarely receive education on partner abuse and report not feeling ready to encounter patients experiencing partner abuse. Analysis of the current readiness of health care students and can inform educational needs to address this gap.

Physiotherapy Students' Exposure to Confronting Clinical Situations: A Qualitative Review.

Objectives: To ascertain an understanding of the confronting situations that physiotherapy students encounter in clinical practice.

Methods: Eighty-two final-year physiotherapy students attended an interactive workshop on confronting situations, and 46 of these students completed a follow-up survey. There were no selection criteria.

Understanding students' and clinicians' experiences of informal interprofessional workplace learning: an Australian qualitative study.

Objectives: While postgraduate studies have begun to shed light on informal interprofessional workplace learning, studies with preregistration learners have typically focused on formal and structured work-based learning. The current study investigated preregistration students' informal interprofessional workplace learning by exploring students' and clinicians' experiences of interprofessional student-clinician (IPSC) interactions.

Design: A qualitative interview study using narrative techniques was conducted.

How do professional Australian Football League (AFL) players utilise social media during periods of injury? A mixed methods analysis.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore how social media is used by a population of injured professional athletes, by comparing the content and frequency of posts on social media, pre and post-injury.

Design: A retrospective mixed methods design was utilised.

Methods: Professional Australian Football League (AFL) players, injured during the 2015 season, were included in the study.

Remote-online case-based learning: A comparison of remote-online and face-to-face, case-based learning - a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Case-based learning (CBL) is an educational approach where students work in small, collaborative groups to solve problems. Computer assisted learning (CAL) is the implementation of computer technology in education. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of a remote-online CBL (RO-CBL) with traditional face-to-face CBL on learning the outcomes of undergraduate physiotherapy students.

Registration factors that limit international mobility of people holding physiotherapy qualifications: A systematic review.

Introduction: There is no enforced international standardisation of the physiotherapy profession. Thus, registration is used in many countries to maintain standards of care and to protect the public. However, registration may also limit international workforce mobility.

The sympathetic nervous system and tendinopathy: a systematic review.

Background: Tendinopathy is a clinical diagnosis of localised tendon pain often confirmed by imaging findings. The pathophysiological cause of the pain is unknown and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) may be implicated.

Objective: To review what is known regarding the role of the SNS in human tendinopathy.

Implementing student self-video of performance.

Background: Resource and curriculum constraints within contemporary university programmes limit opportunities for supervision and feedback of student practice. This study investigated the technological challenges, solutions and educational rewards in implementing Web-based student self-video of performance as a method to foster the development of student self-evaluation.

Methods: Physiotherapy students (n = 60) in their final preclinical semester participated in the study.

Corticospinal Facilitation of Erector Spinae and Rectus Abdominis Muscles During Graded Voluntary Contractions is Task Specific: A Pilot Study on Healthy Individuals.

Introduction: IN THIS STUDY WE COMPARED TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) ELICITED MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS (MEPS) IN A POSTURAL (BILATERAL LOW BACK EXTENSION: BLBE) and a respiratory (forced expiration during breath holding: FEBH) task.

Methods: Using TMS of the left motor cortex, simultaneous patterns of corticospinal facilitation of the contralateral erector spinae (ES) and rectus abdominis (RA) muscles during graded voluntary activation were compared in seven healthy subjects.

Result: The facilitation pattern demonstrated task dependency by showing that MEP amplitudes in the ES muscle tended to be smaller at any given contraction level in the FEBH task than in the BLBE task.

The effect of student self-video of performance on clinical skill competency: a randomised controlled trial.

Emerging technologies and student information technology literacy are enabling new methods of teaching and learning for clinical skill performance. Facilitating experiential practice and reflection on performance through student self-video, and exposure to peer benchmarks, may promote greater levels of skill competency. This study examines the impact of student self-video on the attainment of clinical skills.

Investigating the efficacy of practical skill teaching: a pilot-study comparing three educational methods.

Effective education of practical skills can alter clinician behaviour, positively influence patient outcomes, and reduce the risk of patient harm. This study compares the efficacy of two innovative practical skill teaching methods, against a traditional teaching method. Year three pre-clinical physiotherapy students consented to participate in a randomised controlled trial, with concealed allocation and blinded participants and outcome assessment.