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Beyond the Physical

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Premiere of “Beyond the Physical”: All new series on Athletes with Disability.
Meet Singapore’s best Athletes with disability in their sporting and life journeys in this groundbreaking new series that features the crossing of paths between them and their able-bodied counterparts.
“Beyond The Physical” premieres on 16 June 2008, 7.00pm on Channel 5.
Be sure to catch it.

Using Podcasts for Learning? Why not?

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The Chronicles of Higher Education
The Wired Campus. June 17, 2008
A Professor of Pediatrics Uses Podcasts to Enliven Bacteriology
Sarah E. Forgie, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta, gives medical students song parodies and other offbeat study aids for her bacteriology class. Her favorite podcasts include “Sweet Tetani” (an infectious sendup of “Sweet Caroline”) [...]

Neuro SIG on Kidney Diseases

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

In current workplace, the workgroup has SIG every week whereby each therapist takes turn to present on something they have just learnt or something new or anything that may help us in managing the patients better.
Tomorrow will be a presentation. In the previous SIG, NPH was presented. It was a sharing session as I went [...]

Managing Difficult Behaviours in People with Dementia

Friday, June 6th, 2008

As currently working in a geriatric ward in an acte hospital, I have a fair share of experiences managing individuals with dementia, especially those with behavioural issues. Which must say that it is not easy to handle them. Some are agitated while others aggressive. Sometimes, the physiotherapist and me are out of wits on the [...]

BookJetty.com & Occupational Therapists

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Okays, I am trying to tag various Occupational Therapy (OT) Books for this blog. One of the reasons to share out with the OT professionals and students about book sharing and recommendation of books. This to mobilize a knowledge round the sphere of allied health care industry. Well, how did I do this?
Let’s me [...]