Join the 3rd European Congress on Physiotherapy Education, November 8-9, 2012, Vienna, Austria
The European Region of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (ER-WCPT) organizes the 3rd European Congress on Physiotherapy Education, entitled Advancing the Professional Profile. Continuing Professional Development to promote Evidence Based Physiotherapy.
In this second newsletter, we inform you about the following topics:
Call for Abstracts
Registration
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Call for Abstracts
The Call for Abstracts for platform presentations and poster discussion sessions is now open until March 1, 2011. Link to the Call for Abstracts section:
New! on the congress website, information is provided to help presenters prepare for their poster discussion session and for their platform presentation. See Link above.
Abstracts are invited in the following categories:
Research reports Research reports are presentations of original scientific data collected by the authors.
Special interest reports, including professional resource materials Presentations of new or unique services, programmes or theories and descriptions of innovative ways in which established methods have been adapted.
Presentation Format
Research and special interest reports may be made in one of the following formats:
Platform presentations
A platform presentation is a 10 minute oral presentation of a paper to a seated audience followed by 5 minutes of question time, moderated by a chair.
Poster discussion sessions
Presenting authors have 5 minutes to discuss the key points arising from their work, using no more than 3 PowerPoint slides. After all presenters have given their brief presentations there will be an opportunity for delegates to move around the room and discuss the posters with the presenters.
Congress theme
The overall congress theme for the 3rd European Congress on Physiotherapy Education for 2012 is “Advancing the Professional Profile” with the focus on “Continuing Professional Development to promote Evidence Based Physiotherapy”.
The call for abstracts is open to any topics that fit at least one of the programme tracks.
Track 1: Bringing the evidence into practice; linking science and practice in education
Track 2: CPD – A range of opportunities, a range of new solutions in the world of lifelong learning
Track 3: Education and employment policies: Challenges in Europe
Track 4: Research on physiotherapy education: ensuring quality through assessment and evaluation
Track 5: Education, Transition and Specialization
Full descriptions of the programmetracks and topics assigned to each track can be found on the website
When you register, don’t forget to book a ticket (tickets) for the welcome reception on Wednesday evening and the typical Viennese Heurigen dinner on Thursday evening.
The welcome reception will take place at the congress venue FH Campus Wien
And share your opinion on themes and topics of the congress. You can also use this tool to connect with your colleagues from around the world.
Promotion
If you know any colleagues, networks or groups who may be interested in attending or finding out more about the 3rd European Congress on Physiotherapy Education, please forward this newsletter to them.
September is an important month for WCPT, for two reasons. First, World Physical Therapy Day falls on 8th September, a date when we always encourage physical therapists around the world to celebrate and publicise the contribution of the profession. Second, because there is a major United Nations summit on non-communicable diseases taking place in New York on 19th and 20th September.
Today we are issuing a press release that we hope you will use to promote World Physical Therapy Day. Very soon, the World Health Professions Alliance, of which WCPT is a part, will also be producing educational materials for the public and professionals to coincide with the summit. We hope this will help make the voice of health professionals heard on non-communicable diseases and be an opportunity for everyone to move forward the global role of the profession in preventing and treating non-communicable conditions.
Kind regards, Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers
If you would like to use all or part of this e-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free. We need your assistance to reach the profession around the world, so please send this e-update to your members.
WORLD PHYSICAL THERAPY DAY
With only a few days to go we hope that you are planning activities for World Physical Therapy Day on the 8th September. Participation in the celebrations is growing each year and we have started receiving reports of events around the world that are going to take place next week.
The new materials we are providing this year focusing on physical therapy and non-communicable disease include:
Don't miss this yearly event to put physical therapy in the spotlight! For ideas on activities go to the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/wptday and read about last year's events. Take a look at the toolkit and download the resources we have made available. Don't miss this opportunity and start planning now!
WCPT AWARDS
During the recent WCPT 60th anniversary gala dinner in Amsterdam, the 2011 awards were presented. Photographs of the recipients receiving their awards and their citations may now be viewed on the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/awards2011.
WHO PUBLICATION: BURNS
WHO has recently released a publication highlighting practical solutions to burn prevention. Burns are a serious global public health problem, and fire-related burns alone result in more than 195,000 deaths per year.
The publication focuses on practical, affordable, and sustainable solutions and shows clearly that much can be done to prevent burns and provide better care for them when they do occur. By reviewing and presenting the latest evidence on burn prevention in one place, the publication also seeks to catalyse increased burn prevention activities globally. The publication also covers advances in care which can reduce mortality, disability and suffering among those who are burned.
This month's free peer-reviewed articles from Educata, a WCPT partner providing online continuing education, include:
Spinal manipulation and mobilisation for back and neck pain: a blinded review. By: Koes BW, Assendelft WJ, van der Heijden GJ, Bouter LM, Knipschild PG. Made available by PubMed. BMJ. 1991 Nov 23;303(6813):1298-303. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of spinal manipulation for patients with back or neck pain.
Electromyographic shoulder activity in men and women professional golfers. By: Jobe, FW, Perry J, Pink M. Am J Sports Med. 1989;17(6):782-7. This study compares the electromyographic firing patterns of normal shoulder musculature in men and women professional golfers.
Concerned that the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represents a significant threat to human health and social and economic development, the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) is launching an advocacy and awareness raising campaign. A key component being the WHPA Health Improvement Card (to be launched on 12th September 2011). This is a simple, universal educational tool for adults to assess and record their status related to common risk factors. It encourages individuals and their health professional to take a proactive approach in preventing NCDs and associated disability.
COUNTERFEIT MEDICAL PRODUCTS CAMPAIGN WORKSHOP
As part of the WHPA counterfeit medical products campaign a fourth regional workshop on combating counterfeit medicines is being organised in Prague, Czech Republic, on 21st-22nd November, 2011. This follows on from workshops in Nigeria, Costa Rica and Taiwan over the past year. Representatives from member organisations in Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia will be invited to attend the Prague event. The Czech Chamber of Pharmacists will be the host organisation of the workshop.
It was wonderful to see many of you at the recent WCPT General Meeting and Congress in Amsterdam. The General Meeting was the largest ever, with 94 of our 106 member organisations in attendance and participating in decisions affecting the profession globally, including the adoption of a range of new policy documents. We also celebrated the 60th anniversary of WCPT at a Gala Dinner on the 19th June and recognised individual physical therapists who have made an outstanding contribution to the profession around the world. Watch for photographs and reports from the meeting on the WCPT website and the upcoming issue of WCPT News. Over 5000 physical therapists attended the congress to present the latest research, discuss professional issues and visit the exhibition. Thank you to delegates, presenters, speakers, chairs, reviewers, volunteers, exhibitors and sponsors for your invaluable contribution and for making World Physical Therapy 2011 a true celebration of the profession.
Kind regards
Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers
If you would like to use all or part of this e-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free. We need your assistance to reach the profession around the world, so please send this e-update to your members.
WORLD PHYSICAL THERAPY DAY
It is time again to start planning your activities to celebrate World Physical Therapy Day on 8th September. The day offers a crucial opportunity for physical therapists from all over the world to raise awareness about the essential contribution our profession makes to keeping people well, mobile and independent.
This year, we are providing extra materials that will help you focus on physical therapy and non-communicable disease. New resources include:
As in the three previous years, the theme for World Physical Therapy Day 2011 is Movement for Health. As before, we are providing both practical advice (on organising activities and publicising your message) and information and articles that you can use as part of your activities.
Published to coincide with WCPT's 17th General Meeting in Amsterdam, this report includes a review of WCPT's achievements over the past four years and over the 60 years since it was established. It includes information about the work and aspirations of WCPT today in the context of its history and growth.
On 9th June the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the World report on disability.
It is available for free download from the WHO website at www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/. The summary report is also available in all UN languages, in Braille formatted copy, in accessible PDF and in EasyRead.
WHO COURSES: VIOLENCE AND INJURY PREVENTION
WHO has recently released a new series of short courses on violence and injury providing a complete training resource for facilitators around the world. Each course addresses a specific injury or violence area and is designed to be delivered over 2-5 days. These "trainings in a box" can be downloaded from the WHO website free of charge. Courses currently available for download are:
child maltreatment prevention
intimate partner and sexual violence prevention
trauma care system planning and management
trauma care quality improvement
Each short course follows the same modular format and contains: a facilitator's guide to orient the facilitator to the material; training modules which include PowerPoint presentations and notes for facilitators; and supporting resources such as handouts and case studies. The courses are based on a wide range of WHO materials and additional courses will be developed in the future.
For those interested in the ICF, there is a series of papers available based on presentations originally given at What is disability? UN convention on the rights of persons with disability, eligibility criteria and the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health in Rome in April 2010. The papers are available at www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/11?issue=S4
DISASTER APPEALS
WCPT has set up a web page to assist member organisations in their efforts to raise funds to support physical therapists affected by recent natural disasters. Details of the appeals of Physiotherapy New Zealand and the Japan Physical Therapy Association are available at www.wcpt.org/node/40764.
EDUCATA: FREE ARTICLES
Recent free peer-reviewed articles from Educata, a WCPT partner providing online continuing education, are now available for download via the WCPT website:
Critical analysis of vestibular rehabilitation outcome according to dizziness etiology by Bittar RS, Pedalini ME, Ramalho JO, Yoshimura R. Made available by SciELO org. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2007 Nov-Dec;73(6):760-4. This study evaluated VR outcomes between patients according to dizziness etiology.
Applied biomechanics of swimming by Pink MM, Edelman GT, Mark R, Rodeo SA. In: Magee DJ, Manske RC, Zachazewski JE, Quillen WS, ed. Athletic and Sport Issues in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders; 2011:331-49. This chapter provides an opportunity to describe the specific biomechanics of swimming as they relate to the clinician.
Reliability of procedures used in the physical examination of non-specific low back pain: a systematic review by May S, Littlewood C, Bishop A. This study analyses the quality of research on low back pain and assesses the reliability of different types of physical examination procedures used in the assessment of patients with non-specific low back pain.
BioMed Central will hold the second Open Access Africa conference at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania in partnership with Computer Aid International. The free conference, which will discuss open access in an African context, takes place 25-26 October 2011 during International Open Access Week. Complementing the objectives of the conference, they have launched a free Foundation Membership and an Open Access Package for university libraries across low-income countries that qualify for our waiver fund.
The school of physiotherapy in Sri Lanka is seeking lecturers for its new BSc programme. There are currently three cohorts in the programme and there is a shortage of qualified lecturers. If any person, organisation or university is interested in assisting, at least until the first cohort graduates, please contact Amara Dhamayanthi at
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With a string of natural disasters causing devastation in many parts of the world, the most recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan have left physical therapists attempting to rebuild their own lives, as well as helping others who have been affected. Read the full article Member organisations put varied motions up for debate
Physical therapist Frits Hunsel is a recipient of a Health Volunteers Overseas Golden Apple Award for his extraordinary contribution as a volunteer. Read the full article
From the President and Secretary General At a time when we know that people in many parts of the world are struggling with new challenges resulting from natural disasters and political upheaval, we think of our physical therapy colleagues and the impact on their day to day lives and practice. As they face the challenges and uncertainties of a new future, we unite under our common professional bond in offering support to our member organisations and friends around the world. This issue of WCPT’s e-update focuses largely on global health and highlights current and upcoming reports and opportunities relevant to the profession. Watch for the next Congress update in mid-March. Kind regards Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers If you would like to use all or part of this e-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free. We need your assistance to reach the profession around the world, so please send this e-update to your members. Films addressing disability The World Health Organization's (WHO) department for Disability and Rehabilitation (DAR) is launching a series of films addressing the negative attitudes and perception people with disabilities often have to overcome. In one film we meet Rachael answering the question "What's disability to me?". It joins the series' first film of Faustina from Tanzania, which highlighted the importance of rehabilitation and assistive devices. View now at www.youtube.com/who Further films will be launched in April and May, in the run up to the launch of the World report on disability on 9 June 2011 and can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/user/who#grid/user/50649F9C524CBAC4. If you would like to share your own story of "This is disability to me", WHO welcomes short film submissions or photographs by people with disabilities. Please get in touch with
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if you have material to contribute. International classification of diseases For those of you interested in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) a new online training tool is available. You may access the tool directly at the WHO classifications website, www.who.int/classifications and click ICD-10 Training in the right hand list. The tool is designed for self-learning as well as classroom use. The modular structure means that learners can tailor the course to their particular interests. World Health Report 2012 WHO's annual flagship report will focus for the first time in its history on the theme of research for better health. Titled No health without research, it is aimed at ministers of health. The report will provide new ideas, innovative thinking, and pragmatic advice on how to strengthen health research systems. Call for papers WHO and Public Library of Science (PLoS) have launched an initiative to encourage researchers to complement and substantiate the key messages in World Health Report 2012 by creating a special WHO/PLoS Collection. They are now inviting the submission of papers to PLoS Medicine, especially from low- and middle-income countries, on topics related to strengthening of key functions and components of national health research systems. To stand the best chance of your work informing the World Health Report 2012, contributors are urged to submit papers by the end of March 2011. Papers should be submitted via PLoS at www.plosmedicine.org/home.action. Physical therapist researchers may wish to consider submitting papers to enhance awareness of the evidence for physical therapy as an effective component of health systems. Educata: free article This month's free peer-reviewed article from Educata, a WCPT partner providing online continuing education, is now available for download via the WCPT website: This month's free article from Educata is Managing cancer pain with nonpharmacologic and complementary therapies by Pujol LA, Monti DA. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2007 Dec;107(12 Suppl 7):ES15-21. The article looks at how nonpharmacologic interventions are important adjuncts to treatment modalities for patients with cancer pain. It reviews several nonpharmacologic and complementary and alternative modalities commonly used by patients with cancer pain. Download it now at www.wcpt.org/node/29540. If you work with cancer patients you may also be interested in Educata's foundations of oncology course by Dr Marisa Perdomo. Dr Perdomo is breaking new ground in the physical therapy treatment of individuals with oncological disease. She is a forerunner in the field as both educator and clinician. Health Information for All by 2015 HIFA2015 is a global campaign and knowledge network with the goal that "every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider by 2015". More than 4000 people representing 1800 organisations in 157 countries around the world interact by way of email discussion forums. Together they are building a knowledge base of information needs and how to meet them. Each year since its inception HIFA sets an area on which to focus for the year. The 2011 challenge is 'Mothers and family caregivers’. Neil Packenham Walsh, the coordinator of the HIFA2015 campaign and co-director of the Global Healthcare Information Network, will be a speaker on a discussion panel at the WPT2011 Congress Can new information technologies really add value to physical therapy practice and outcomes?. Read more about the discussion panel at www.wcpt.org/congress/discussion_panels. To join HIFA2015 go to www.hifa2015.org/joinhifa/. For more information about HIFA2015 go to www.hifa2015.org/. Symposium on rehabilitation disaster relief A call for abstracts has been issued for the symposium on rehabilitation disaster relief to be presented at the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) world conference in Puerto Rico 2011, Monday 13 June, 13:30-17:30. Papers are welcome on the:
epidemiology of disability in natural disaster (including vulnerability of persons with pre-existing disabilities)
assessment methods of needs and problems of persons with disabilities in natural disaster
training of rehabilitation responders to disaster
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions after natural disaster
current challenges in rehabilitation service provision and intervention strategies in disaster victims with disabilities
policies to raise awareness about medical rehabilitation as major health strategy after natural disaster in the acute as well as post-acute relief phase
Abstracts for the presentation of papers can be submitted online at http://abstracts.flexmax.eu/isprm2011/disaster/. Deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2011. Female genital mutilation WHO has recently published a 17-page booklet,Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation. It is available to download from the WHO website at www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/fgm/rhr_10_9/en/index.html and is available in Arabic, English and French. This global strategy against medicalisation of female genital mutilation (FGM) is intended for a broad audience of policy-makers in governments, parliamentarians, international agencies, professional associations, community leaders, religious leaders, NGOs and other institutions. WCPT opposes all forms of FGM. To read WCPT's position statement on FGM go to www.wcpt.org/node/29464. Positive practice environments (PPE) Presentations from the PPE session held at the recent Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health are now available online at www.ppecampaign.org/content/second-global-forum-human-resources-health-bangkok-25-29-january-2011. International frameworks and guidelines, migration, violence at the workplace, occupational health and safety, health information and HRH and gender were some of the topics addressed by international speakers at the session. The PPE campaign is a collaboration of WCPT, International Council of Nurses (ICN), International Hospital Federation (IHF), International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), World Dental Federation (FDI), and World Medical Association (WMA) working with the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) to undertake a campaign to improve work environments and aid in staff recruitment and retention through the development of positive practice environments (PPEs).
To learn more about the PPE campaign go to www.ppecampaign.org. WHO Disability & Rehabilitation newsletter The just published World Health Organization (WHO) Disability and Rehabilitation newsletter includes reports on the launch of the World report on disability, regional and national launches of the CBR Guidelines, and the WHO Task Force on Disability. Read now at www.who.int/disabilities/publications/newsletter/dar_newsletter_issue12.pdf.
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