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From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Carol Aselage C.O.
A licensed physical therapist and a certified orthotist and prosthetist has
provided some valuable insight below :
” The real issue is that all respected professionals in the medical field
have a formal education experience followed by practice under the
supervision of an experienced practitioner in their respective fields.
Experience is extremely important but without the educational foundation you
are missing the anatomy, biomechanics, pathomechanics, material science,
physics etc.”
Couldn’t agree more: Talk of reform should be educational based not via
unification.
Ms. Aselage has listed required mandatory undergraduate courses for
nurses ,physicians, physical and occupational therapists …,all of whom
required to be licensed professionals. before they collect a dime.
Why is this formal educational experience not also mandatory for future
Prosthetists and Orthotists providing comprehensive O&P services ?
All individuals taking the formal courses together until their specific
and desired pathway of healthcare is determined.
Required educational courses that can be completed in university
undergraduate programs for all health care providers to prepare and to
obtain their appropriate license in that elected specialized field. Those
searching out more education in specialty areas of health care can go on for
their masters, doctorate and become certified in that (specialty) specific
allied health care science.
A excellent way to share the cost of education, unite all healthcare
professions, not to mention providing a real basis for education and to
better assure quality of care to the patient.
You can learn a lot from each other to chart a proper course of resolving
your credibility issue of being a legitimate and worthy health care
profession.
There is common ground and education required as described above.
Tony
” Orthotists and Prosthetists will not be respected or accepted as medical
professionals until we as a whole follow the medical model of, education,
supervised experience and formal testing. ABC previously followed this
model but now apparently are allowing an experience only pathway into the
profession. The professionals that we interact with on a daily basis such
as Doctors, therapists, nurses, social workers do not allow such pathways
into their fields. Ask any of them if they felt their educational
experience has relevance to the patient care they provide. Are we
professionals in the medical field or tradesmen, product vendors & order
takers? The problem is that the field now has some of all and the patients
and professionals we deal with on a daily basis are not always sure which
they are dealing with.especially, now with the recent decision by ABC.”
Respectfully, Carol Aselage P. T., C.O., L. O.
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