The Physiotherapy Board Education Committee sets standards which the training curriculum have to meet. This Committee ran State exams from 1921 until 1991, when individual schools took over the responsibility.
The Physiotherapy Board Education Committee sets standards which the training curriculum have to meet. This Committee ran State exams from 1921 until 1991, when individual schools took over the responsibility.
A post graduation pre-registration year was proposed in March 1977 by the Physiotherapy Board. Some Society members felt these internships of one year would be a consolidation of training. Though discussed until 1979 the idea was never implemented. In July 1982 there was debate about the clinical supervision of students. The Registrar of the Board gave support to the clinical experience gained by students in hospitals . The Minister of Health felt new initiatives need to be taken relating to the claim for a clinical tutoring allowance for hospital physiotherapists, and asked the Society to prepare information about the qualifications of tutors and their role and job descriptions. A committee was formed with great difficulty because no one wanted to serve on it.
There was a call for expressions of interest in 1994 by physiotherapists to be involved in a working party to review the registration requirement. This was developed as the result of a DACUM type exercise and included wide consultation with the profession from 1985 to 1988. Terms of Reference were given. Timeframe March to June 1995[1]
[1] N/L November 1994 page 10
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