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Environmental Healthcare Unconference Podcast #4

This is the fourth in a series of four podcasts created by @EarthResusTeam as a stimulus for the interprofessional student environmental healthcare unconference at University of Birmingham. In this episode, the team discuss what steps we can take now as healthcare students. The podcast includes excerpts from conversations with: Dr Becki Taylor-Smith, Anaesthetic registrar, Chair…

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Environmental Healthcare Unconference Podcast #3

This is the third in a series of four podcasts created by @EarthResusTeam as a stimulus for the interprofessional student environmental healthcare unconference at University of Birmingham. In this episode, the team discuss how actions for climate can benefit health. The podcast includes excerpts from conversations with: Dr Becki Taylor-Smith, Anaesthetic registrar, Chair of the…

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Environmental Healthcare Unconference Podcast #2

This is the second in a series of four podcasts created by @EarthResusTeam as a stimulus for the interprofessional student environmental healthcare unconference at University of Birmingham. In this episode, the team discuss the effect of healthcare on environment. The podcast includes excerpts of a conversation with Dr Cleo Kenington, Consultant surgeon at St George’s…

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Environmental Healthcare Unconference Podcast #1

This is the first in a series of four podcasts created by @EarthResusTeam as a stimulus for the interprofessional student environmental healthcare unconference at University of Birmingham. In this episode, the team introduces the podcast series and discuss the effect of environment on health. The podcast includes excerpts of a conversation with Dr Filip Maric,…

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#24 – Online and remote physiotherapy programmes

It’s about not seeing distance learning as being the thing that takes place in front of a laptop. In this episode Ben and I talk about what a remote, online physiotherapy programme might look like, using no notes or any kind of preparation at all. We discuss the progress of universities to date in graduating…

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#22 – English language dominance of the profession

In this episode Ben and Michael speak to Shaun Cleaver about the idea that English is taking over as the default language, not only of communication between people of different cultures, but also as the language of knowledge generation and dissemination. We talk about why this might be a problem, and how we might start thinking about solutions.

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#21: Placements – Innovation from a crisis (Unconference 2020)

In this guided reflection, Jane Ashbrook and Beatriz Martinez consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on student physiotherapy placement provision. They speak to academic staff and students about some of their challenges and experiences and invite the listener to reflect on how their own programmes and clinical placements have been affected. This episode forms part of the In Beta Unconference 2020 guided reflection series.

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#20: Decolonising physiotherapy education (Unconference 2020)

In this guided reflection, Shaun Cleaver invites the listener to consider how the issues of colonisation and imperialism significantly shapes the possibilities for individuals and groups, while also being difficult to locate. The episode relies primarily on narrative, with emphasis on personal perspectives of societal and structural phenomena. Increasingly, through the podcast sections, the content threads connections to the physiotherapy profession in general and physiotherapy education specifically. This episode forms part of the In Beta Unconference 2020 guided reflection series.

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#19: Environmental physiotherapy education (Unconference 2020)

In this guided reflection, Filip Maric invites you to consider how environmental degradation, climate change, biodiversity loss, and the pollution of land, water and air are now widely recognised as the largest threats to human health and flourishing around the world. As health professions and students are now increasingly mobilising around topics pertaining to planetary health and environmental sustainability, there are growing efforts to embed these topics in healthcare professional education with a view to changing practice. This episode forms part of the In Beta Unconference 2020 guided reflection series.

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