First international collaborative student project to go ahead in 2010

We are very excited to announce that the first international collaborative student project will go ahead in February 2010. During this project fourth year physiotherapy students from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa will collaborate with fellow foundation year students from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. The project is being organised and supported by Rachael Lowe, the Physiopedia founder, in collaboration with Michael Rowe from the University of the Western Cape and Aileen Barret from the Royal College of Surgeons.

The project is an elective module where students will be invited to participate.  The students will be allocated into groups of four students (two from each nation) and tasked with working together to build pages/content in Physiopedia.  The topics that the students will work on will investiate key physiotherapy skills and also explore cultural differences between the nations.

At the end of this project students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate evidence based practice skills such as literature searching and critical appraisal
  • Demonstrate scientific writing and referencing skills
  • Demonstrate an ability to work in teams, agree goals and time frames, roles and responsibilities
  • Demonstrate web-editing skills

Students will also have:

  • An increased understanding of the clinically related topics that they have investigated
  • An insight into the cultural differences in the physiotherapy profession in different nations
  • Experience of online collaboration

For more information on this project see the ISP1 page in Physiopedia or follow the #ISP1 in Twitter.