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Student Placement Experience Blog

Clinical placement can be a daunting time for all healthcare professionals. This blog is intended to help reduce this anxiety by allowing students to share their experiences and advice. All posts are written by current or previous Physiotherapy students. Please respect their honesty and use this resource to relate to, reassure and learn from each others experiences.

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The first placement

As a Physiotherapy student starting my very first placement I felt nervous, anxious and uneasy about the experience. When I arrived on my...

Approaching Your Educator

Placement has been the most interesting part of the course for me, with real life experience and the ability to look back and reflect on...

Avoiding 'Burnout' On Placement

I’ve made it! I’m now a physiotherapist and I still feel like pinching myself every time I put my badge on. Placements are probably the...

Completing Lives

My final placement was working on the Neurosurgery ward, an extremely interesting ward predominantly consisting of spinal cord injury and...

Managing The Marking Criteria

I am a 3rd year student currently in middle of my 3rd placement. I’ve had two ward based placements and a community based one and covered...

Thrown In At The Respiratory Deep End

Before starting my first placement in January 2018 I was apprehensive about what experience I was going to face over the forthcoming...