Four Pillars podcast series launched for AHPs
Glasgow Caledonian University Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy Dougie Lauchlan has launched a new Four Pillars podcast series featuring a range of experts in allied health professions (AHP) across Scotland.
Dougie, from the Department of Physiotherapy and Paramedicine, initially came up with the idea to enhance the experience of his students on the Advancing Professional Practice module, which sits within our post-registration programmes MSc Advanced Practice and MSc Advanced Physiotherapy Practice.
However, by placing the podcasts on Apple and Spotify channels, he wants to reach out to the AHP community to encourage them to think about continued professional development (CPD).
The name of the podcast series of six interviews came from the four pillars of practice that underpins everything AHPs do - clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.
The first podcast in the series has just been released - Advancing Professional Practice: Context for the AHP featuring Claire Rae, Interim Head of the Health and Social Care Partnership in South Lanarkshire. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-4-pillars/id1670601262 and https://open.spotify.com/show/4kR9BxVZFa5TzG0w3LHkMh
Dougie explained: "I have been working on these podcasts for six months, getting the right speakers and creating a breadth of a guest list to cover all the four pillars of practice within the allied health professions framework that underpins everything we do.
"The Four Pillars podcast series will be used as an adjunct to the support for post-graduate learners who are on our Advancing AHP Practice framework. These students are AHP practitioners in their own right and registered but they are moving towards advancing their careers either through the research, teaching or even clinical streams.
"Some of our students might even want to become managers or team leads so this is a necessary rite of passage for them to come through this analysis of their own place in their career and develop the skillset that they need to move on.
"We have a range of guests featured in the podcasts from different positions within the NHS in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and speech and language therapy. They are giving us their insight into how they have used CPD to help support their own careers.
"By publishing the podcasts externally, we hope that the AHP community will start to engage in a conversation about what CPD is and understand a little bit more about finding space to do CPD whilst they are under pressures at work. We all know we need to do CPD but when work is really hectic it is difficult to find the time. That's why I felt a podcast would be simple and easy for people to stick it on and listen to it on their phones."
Dougie got help from our Digital and Health Technician William Connelly to produce podcasts and advice from our video communications officer Craig Telfer, who produces the GCU Common Good podcast series.
The other five podcasts will be released over the next few weeks, during the trimester B teaching period. They include –
Developing your Clinical Practice in the clinical pillar with Claire Cardador, Speech and Language Therapist currently leading on the delivery of the Communication Help through Assistive Technology (CHAT) Service in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Why is it important to understand learning theories as a practitioner? with Ruth Paterson, AHP Practice Education Lead in NHS Lanarkshire.
When is research important? Do we fully appreciate or use an evidence base? featuring Kath Sharp, Respiratory Physiotherapist with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian where she co-leads the Doctorate of Physiotherapy Programme.
How leadership skills help practice featuring David Wylie, Associate Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMAHP) Director in NHS Education for Scotland.
The developing practitioner - how do students demonstrate their learning? with Karen Haughey, Physiotherapist in an advanced practice development role within East Dunbartonshire Community Rehab team.
Find out more about our Advance Practice physiotherapy courses - https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-advanced-physiotherapy-practice-glasgow and https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-advanced-practice-glasgow#overview.