Anyone's dc doing physio at uni?

[Ihopeyourcakeisshit]

Dc is hoping to do physio at uni next year. What kind of work experience, how long for etc did your dc manage to do in order to get accepted?

You need to check each university's admission requirements but currently work experience requirements (and work experience placements) for healthcare related degrees are on hold because of COVID-19 eg www.nottingham.ac.uk/ugstudy/course/Physiotherapy-BSc

There are some online NHS virtual work experience placements that your DC can search for or they can contact your local trust to apply for when restrictions are lifted eg
www.nhsborders.scot.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/our-services/allied-health-professionals/physiotherapy/virtual-work-experience/
www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/news/join-us-for-virtual-work-experience-5168/
join.springpod.co.uk/nhs-virtual-work-experience/#:~:text=The%20virtual%20work%20experience%20programme,in%20the%20NHS%20can%20mean.
www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk/work-experience
www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/improving-your-chances/gaining-experience

In the meantime, they could also ask a physiotherapist to do a phone/zoom interview. Or think about skills/qualities required for the role and try to find something that they could do to work on those skills eg time management, communication, building rapport eg ask the PE department at school if they can help coach younger students. Join St John Ambulance cadets:
www.sja.org.uk/get-involved/young-people/

So how has this affected this year's intake? Surely they've not been able to get much experience?

Sorry, thanks for all the links

I would assume none of this year's applicants have managed to get any work experience other than online, which is why the requirement has been dropped @Ihopeyourcakeisshit. They need to have done their research about the role though.

You might get a better response on the Higher Education board from someone who has DC studying physiotherapy or teaches it. Most of the university talk is on that board.

My DC are actually studying medicine but it's the same for all healthcare courses. They have done some zoom Q&A sessions for sixth formers this year to try and give them some insight to help with interviews.

Thank you so much.
It would have helped if I'd posted on the right board

Thanks MNHQ for moving it!

My dd just got her offers through for physio. She did actually get work experience in a private practice through someone we know, although I don't know that the interviewers were really that interested in it. She found some of the interviews really tough, you need to have a thorough knowledge of the fields that NHS physios work in and she got rejected by Leicester for not knowing the specific names for any physio manoevers.

How much work experience did she do?
That's really helpful about knowing the physio terminology, thankyou.
Hope it goes well for her.

She got three full days. The school encouraged her to write on her personal statement that her voluntary work in a nursing home had been cancelled due to COVID (although there was nothing in place!) Just as a heads up, one of the interviews was completely unlike the others, with a scenario given about you (as a physio student) witnessing a nurse hitting a patient. This threw dd as she hadn't come across this before but she said the primary concern is always the patient, and she wouldn't leave the patient alone until someone else came along. She got an offer so this was obviously an acceptable answer.

My son is about to graduate. He didn’t have much work experience - had a couple of days shadowing a physio, did a few shifts as a carer in the summer before application and relied on his work as a swimming teacher and knowledge of sport from A level PE
The selection interviews seemed to be v heavily weighted towards knowing what a physio actually does and not get mixed up with OT etc, knowledge of the NHS, motivation and some group tasks
good luck he has loved the degree and although v competitive missed his grades and still got in