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Ever since I was a kid, it has been my life goal to help as many people I can. I have moved around in many different areas of the medical field, but no career had caught my eye as much as physical therapy. As an athlete, I have been in and out of the physical therapist’s office for a majority of my life. Each time I have went I could not help but be beyond grateful for what these people have done for me; they have given me the ability to play the sport I love despite all the hiccups. Physical therapy is a dynamic field within the field of medicine because as a physical therapist one can make a difference in the lives of his or her patients, enjoy job security, and enjoy a rewarding and personally satisfying career.

I am incredibly lucky to have been fortunate enough to say that I worked hands on with a Physical Therapist over this past summer. It was an experience I will never forget and one that I will treasure forever.

Medicine is a science of healing, but also an art. It takes intelligence in the sciences as well as precise skill in the art of medicine to heal successfully. In the Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates highlights the importance of passing on the tradition of practicing medicine, maintaining respect for patients, and preserving humility within themselves. Modern day practice of this oath involve patient’s stories. Rita Charon in her article “What to do with Stories? The sciences of Narrative Medicine,” explores narrative writing and how to use it as a tool in healing patients. While Charon focuses on the writing of these stories, Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal reflects on how to make more meaningful endings out of the stories of patients who

In a clinical setting, medical information changes on a daily basis. Physicians serve as practitioners in the medical community. They provide key information to medical students, residents, as well as nursing staff that help with their growth and development. Simons, Morgan, and Davidson (2012) stated, “in order for physicians to practice medicine successfully and become learners for life, they need to know how to search and manage the medical information they discover within their patient-centered context.” As a practitioner, physicians understand that these skills are necessary in order for their medical students and other medical staff becomes experts in their chosen field.

Patient stories bring healthcare experiences to life highlighting if they are positive or negative. They encourage the NHS to focus on the person and view then as a statistic. Stories can be told from the point of view of the patient therefore the focus is solely on the individual and not the condition. Stories are made up of a complex network of events from admission to discharge.Stories can be sourced from patients and families, members of staff and care workers. Everyone’s experience of the healthcare experience is valuable. Patient experiences are used to improve healthcare, however and individual story is not a representation of all patient experiences. Stories help us to see things from the point of view of a

The physical therapy profession focuses one dimensionally, concentrating on the musculoskeletal system, whereas physician assistants direct their efforts to all body organ systems. I have always had a desire to learn about the human body as a whole and being a physician assistant would allow me to do just that. Because I am an avid learner who possesses a strong desire to absorb new information, the lateral mobility that the physician assistant profession offers makes it possible to learn a new specialty if the opportunity presents itself. I thus began researching other possibilities and discovered the physician assistant profession and immediately fell in love. It was not until I began shadowing a physician assistant that I truly knew that I found the place where I

9th grade I fractured my lateral condyle of the femoral head, leaving me with 2 months of physical therapy. At first I hated it never wanting to go, saying my trainer was too young to even know what he was doing. However, when my trainer, Adam, started to make it a game with me on how fast I can progress my competitive side came to play and i couldn't help but want to take him up on his offer. As the weeks passed by I started loving the atmosphere watching patients work towards

Congratulations on making it to week eight of PTA 324 Physical Therapy Across Practice Settings! We end this course with a look at professional development of the PTA. We will be discussing ideas for lifelong learning and maintaining clinical competence. By being in this course, you have already shown a commitment to professional development and lifelong learning. As we come to the end of this class, reflect on the self-directed learning that you have achieved and how your professional development has been affected by your research and the interactions with your classmates.

Though I always had an intrest in the human body it was not until later that I decided to go to school for Physical Therapy Assistant. For many

Melvin Konner, in “Basic Clinical Skills”, uses a first person point of view along with some bits of humor in order to establish a more relatable narrator. He discusses several topics such as the relationship between doctors and their patients, the healthcare given in hospitals, and the role that the physician plays in different contexts of life.

That situation with the younger doctor made me think of the reading Narrative Medicine which is about aiming to introduce into everyday medical practice the use of narrative (story telling) as an instrument to gather and understand information about the patient's history and illness. Having knowledge of their psychological and physical state is very helpful. When Dr. Charon spoke with the 36-year-old Dominican man, she didn’t take over the conversation. She listened and it touched him because he says, “No one has ever let me do this before.” This made me really think about my family’s interactions with doctors and nurses since my teen years to present. Her diabetes began to spiral out of control and it never really stabilized. Over the course of the years, she was hospitalized

Suddenly recalled back to a time when all I wanted to do is to help someone. The thought and desire to aid people in a job seem like a perfect dream. I use to massage my mother every weekend. Her heels were always cracked, and her back was as stiff as a rock. During my leisure time, I would practice it on my brother and sister to learn from their opinion. This interest evolved throughout the years into physical therapy.

Despite this, Garden accounts how “the practice or medicine often neglect empathy in favor of biomedical approaches to disease and injury” (551). Narrative Medicine not only seeks to bridge the divide between doctors and patients, but also the divide within the medical community.

This has been established for us before where recognition of trial and error of what medical methods work in sustaining health have been passed on in narration. This long history of continuous narration has now made medicine a tradition that we humans live by, spanning across

My teaching philosophy is to create an environment that stimulates learning so that students gain the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to become proficient professionals. While teaching foundational knowledge is important, there are other essential skills and abilities that students must acquire in order to successfully transition from being a student to becoming a physical therapy professional. These skills and abilities include thinking critically as well as interacting and communicating effectively with patients and other health care practitioners. I emphasize to students that it is imperative to realize the impact of developing a therapeutic rapport with patients while providing quality, patient-centered care to optimize the healing process. Therefore, when deciding what to teach, I not only consider the content presented, but also how I can foster discussions with students so that they can apply information based on varying contextual factors. I also attempt to provide students a framework for how to achieve professional excellence, which I aim to model as I fulfill my roles and responsibilities as a teacher and provider of clinical instruction. This framework is rooted in five central tenets: