physio in trinity

seacláid-te

Hey, Im thinking of doing physiotherapy in TCD next year, I was just wondering are the people doing it enjoying it? any info on the course would be greatly appreciated!!

Jonathan

Ask kearnsr. He seems to know a lot about them.

godtabh

jmccrohan wrote: »

Ask kearnsr. He seems to know a lot about them.

I've never been to one before.

Went out with one for awhile.

They find it very hard to get jobs

Jonathan

kearnsr wrote: »

I've never been to one before.

Went out with one for awhile.

She never give you any happy ending massages? :P

godtabh

jmccrohan wrote: »

She never give you any happy ending massages? :P

The stories I could tell would be all lies

What are the points like for it here? I think there are better prospects in the UK

Larianne

You work on cadavers and have to strip down to your underwear to practice on each other. They were the shockers I was told.

Edit:not at the same time though!

godtabh

Larianne wrote: »

You work on cadavers and have to strip down to your underwear to practice on each other. They were the shockers I was told.

Edit:not at the same time though!

Some of the stories I heard were great!


The work you do isnt what I thought it was either. Its not all sports injuries. My ex word in an intensive care unit in a hospital cant remember exactly what she did

seacláid-te

Larianne wrote: »

You work on cadavers and have to strip down to your underwear to practice on each other. They were the shockers I was told.

Edit:not at the same time though!

interesting!!!:rolleyes:

seacláid-te

and on a more serious note?? :-)

Larianne

I was being serious!

I'm applying this year as a mature student (fingers crossed) and I've shadowed at Tallaght, St. James's, St. Mary's, the CRC and at a private practice. Physiotherapy has many different areas - sports injuries is only a teeny tiny area and if that's why you want to get into Physio be prepared for a shock! You will work with babies in ICU, children with cerebral palsy, older people who have had strokes and other brain injuries, people who've had major operations, patients with psychiatric problems, orthopaedics - fractures, soft tissue damage, people who suffered burns or undergone aggressive plastic surgery, people with chronic breathing difficulties etc. The list is endless really.

You start doing clinical placements in the summer just before going into 2nd year. Some of your placements can be down the country. Your placements cuts into a lot of your holiday time apparently. The Physiology section is meant to be pretty tough on the course. Any student I spoke to said it was a killer. Overall it's a tough course.

You need to enjoy working with people from various backgrounds, have great patience and be quick thinking. When you qualify if you go on to work in a hospital you do 6 months rotation in the different areas which is good as you get experience in the different areas although ICU isn't the best rotation. (a lot of coughing/sucking up mucus apparently!) You'll work closely with OTs and Social Workers.

There isn't many jobs out there at the moment but hopefully when I qualify there will be and it's a profession you can travel with. And there is lots of areas of research as well.

skregs

sweet FA jobs in it. And there's been no physio jobs for about the last 5 years because generally smart + likes sports = do physio, so there's millions of them.
Also, to get into the course, competition is so fierce you'll need to enter into some kind of Battle Royale-esque death match

EDINBRO

Larianne wrote: »

I was being serious!

I'm applying this year as a mature student (fingers crossed) and I've shadowed at Tallaght, St. James's, St. Mary's, the CRC and at a private practice. Physiotherapy has many different areas - sports injuries is only a teeny tiny area and if that's why you want to get into Physio be prepared for a shock! You will work with babies in ICU, children with cerebral palsy, older people who have had strokes and other brain injuries, people who've had major operations, patients with psychiatric problems, orthopaedics - fractures, soft tissue damage, people who suffered burns or undergone aggressive plastic surgery, people with chronic breathing difficulties etc. The list is endless really.

You start doing clinical placements in the summer just before going into 2nd year. Some of your placements can be down the country. Your placements cuts into a lot of your holiday time apparently. The Physiology section is meant to be pretty tough on the course. Any student I spoke to said it was a killer. Overall it's a tough course.

You need to enjoy working with people from various backgrounds, have great patience and be quick thinking. When you qualify if you go on to work in a hospital you do 6 months rotation in the different areas which is good as you get experience in the different areas although ICU isn't the best rotation. (a lot of coughing/sucking up mucus apparently!) You'll work closely with OTs and Social Workers.

There isn't many jobs out there at the moment but hopefully when I qualify there will be and it's a profession you can travel with. And there is lots of areas of research as well.

Yeah that seems like a good enough description.

Im doing a masters course myself in UK Larriane so if you need any help re applications pm me. In first year... really finished already:eek::eek: Until we head to hospitals in june:o:o