Publicerad som Abrandt Dahlgren M. PBL through the looking glass : Comparing applications in computer engineering, psychology and physiotherapy. She has a background in the Health Sciences and long experience of teaching and consulting in problem-based learning in different academic settings. She was also keynote speaker and member of the organisation committee at the international conferences ...

BACKGROUND Mobile learning (m-learning) has becoming very popular in education due to the rapidly advancing technology in our society. The potentials of the mobile applications should be used to enhance the education process. Few mobile applications have been designed to complement the study of physical therapy skills for physiotherapy students. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ...

Physiotherapists are desired to have a good level of physical fitness to meet their job demands. As educators of Physical Therapy profession, it is important to expose students to their professional physical fitness demands that they would face in employment setting. The students of Bachelor of Physiotherapy programme from various colleges of Punjab and Haryana participated in the study. The da...

BACKGROUND Self-reported knee pain is highly prevalent among adolescents. As much as 50% of the non-specific knee pain may be attributed to Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS). In the short term, exercise therapy appears to have a better effect than patient education consisting of written information and general advice on exercise or compared with placebo treatment. But the long-term effect of ...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing trend of outsourcing public departments. Teaching hospitals also outsourced some of their departments to private sectors. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the educational status of students in public and outsourced departments of teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This study was conducted in six t...

Background and Objective: Physical fitness implies performing an inactive task efficiently besides sense of physical, mental social well-being the ability to deal with crisis demanding unusual physical endeavor. In this study, physiotherapy students age group 17 22 years Visakha Academy Paramedical Sciences College Physiotherapy were taken assess their fitness.
 Methods: An observational s...

PURPOSE To investigate face and content validity of a draft measure to be used across Canada to assess physiotherapy students' performance in clinical education, through broad consultation with physiotherapy clinical instructors (CIs) across Canada. METHODS An online survey was used to collect input on the draft measure. In addition to demographics, the questionnaire included questions on the...

QUESTIONS What is the economic value for an individual to invest in physiotherapy undergraduate education in Australia? How is this affected by increased education costs or decreased wages? DESIGN A cost-benefit analysis using a net present value (NPV) approach was conducted and reported in Australian dollars. In relation to physiotherapy education, the NPV represents future earnings as a phy...