These pre-course activities will help to prepare you for taking part in the course. By completing them you will know that you are ready to participate in the course and have had access to all the pre-course information.
All the activities below must be completed before the course starts.
Just in case you didn't get the joining instructions by email, you can see them here.
Claude Tardif is the head of Physical Rehabilitation Services and Barbara Rau is Physiotherapy Co-ordinator at ICRC.
Competence is defined as “the possession of the necessary skills, knowledge, attitudes, understanding and experience...required to perform in professional and occupational roles to a satisfactory standard within the workplace” (Day 1995). The purpose of completing this self-rating form is to help guide your learning process during this course.
Completion of this competency tool is a requirement for completing the course!
Once you have completed this competency tool set yourself some learning objectives for the course. These are your own personal learning objectives. Try to make them SMART objectives.
Make sure that prior to the course, you have signed up to the course Discussion forum. This is where discussions will take place each week in relation to the topics of that week. You will need to be part of the forum so that you can contribute to the discussion.
Remember patient confidentiality! Do not disclose any information that enables us to identify your patients.
Be respectful and empathetic to those where English is not their first language.
What is most important is to make sure that you contribute to the forum with your thoughts, knowledge and questions so that others can also learn from you.
Make specific responses to people by typing in their name so that they will get alerted to any responses that they may get.
Spend the time that you have availabe reading some of the conversations that you find interesting and new.
Feel free to form small groups in which to have discussions.
So to get us started, before the course starts introduce yourself to each other. Post a short summary which tells us where you live, whether you are a physiotherapy student, clinician or other, how much experience you have with amputees and what you hope to get out of this course.
During this course we will expect you to be familiar with International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). ICF is a classification of health and health-related domains. As the functioning and disability of an individual occurs in a context ICF also includes a list of environmental factors.
You may also wish to explore these additional resources on the ICF (this is not required).
Have a play with the ICF Browser - Using this online browser you can see the structure of the classification, look up the codes and definitions, create your own short lists of ICF codes and view the classification in more than one language.
Take a look at the ICF Checklist - The user–friendly display of the most relevant ICF categories for clinical purposes. The checklist allows the user to identify and qualify the individuals functioning profile in a simple and time efficient manner.
Founded in 1987 in Tannay, near Geneva, Switzerland, C.R. Equipments has been working since 1992 for the ICRC and other humanitarian organisations. It exports its prosthetic and orthotic products to more than 70 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that specialise in orthopaedic activities, located in some 25 countries, mostly in Africa, S-E. Asia and Latin America.