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1. To increase your knowledge-base within an accessible and practical philosophical framework 2. To enhance your practical patient examination skills in the areas covered by each course 3. To extend the spectrum of your healthcare practice
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Background: environment, aims, outcomes
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In Late 2009/early 2010, healthcare requires clinicians who can consolidate and improve on their knowledge base and skills, and apply this to a highly competent patient assessment. Many allied health professionals are being given far more responsibility as ‘first-contact' practitioners and often need to address key issues of healthcare that go far beyond mere musculoskeletal presentations. Extended Scope Practitioners, broadening the traditional roles of their 'protected title' professions, need to be increasingly competent in diagnosing and managing abnormal internal organic states appropriately on a regular basis. Advanced Physiotherapy clinical practice, for instance, requires proof of extended competency in this field. The MACP and International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapists (IFOMT) also require that professional standards be maintained and that practitioners demonstrate continuing professional development. Other aspiring groups will find that Crawford & Cook courses are a practical way of achieving these goals.
We apply an underpinning diagnostic process to the very broadest aspects of patient presentation. Central to this is the logical and explicit connection of body structures to their functions. Crucially, in our courses, this applies not merely to musculoskeletal conditions, but also to those ‘visceral' conditions (in the widest sense) that may masquerade as them. In short, we tailor clinical diagnosis to the problem solving approach - and clinical responses - required by today's health professions' ever-varying patient base.
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ALL of these Crawford and Cook courses have been re-accredited by the MACP (2009). This means that they have been judged as relevant learning by that body, at a level that is appropriate to the requirements of Extended Scope of Practice (ESP) in physiotherapy. In 2009 we have run allied courses at 2 UK universities for many other heath professions too, such as Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Podiatrists, Radiographers... The courses are a robust blend of underpinning knowledge and its practical application via core clinicall skills.
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These are placed into a coherent philosophical framework, allowing participants to approach novel clinical situations with demonstrably increased confidence and capability. Our vision is to help practitioners to attain 'minimum levels of safety', as are required by the HPC, MACP , IFOMT etc... In this way, our courses can contribute to acceptable levels of competent clinical practice, in both professional and medico-legal senses
Our tutor-base currently consists of highly experienced clinicians who are also skilled and recognised educators at postgraduate level. They also have expertise between them in such diverse fields (among others) as medico-legal work, surgery and the design of novel diagnostic equipment.
You will learn alongside your colleagues, in groups where ‘peer mentoring' is encouraged. This means that at any one time you might be a ‘patient', having procedures practised on you; a ‘practitioner', performing them; or a ‘mentor', giving objective and constructive feedback on what you observe as third party. This approach to your learning will give you
a truly rounded appreciation of the subject area – and is a distinctively embedded feature of our learning environment.
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After a component session, you should make sure you can:
1. List fundamental structure and function relevant to your course content / related patient's presentation 2. Describe (and explain genesis of) a patient's history, symptoms and observable signs
3. Demonstrate key manual and equipment-based examination skills 4. Interpret information related to differential diagnosis and safety 5. Explicitly describe and evaluate the various phases of your diagnostic process
6. Commit to follow-up study in this field in order to further improve our patient care
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Outcomes are provided with - and tailored to – each course, individually
You need to bring ALL diagnostic equipment that you'll use, as indicated at the head of each course That is, we do not supply any equipment
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