Ann is the ultimate clinical expert with decades of clinical experience and a desire to keep bettering herself time and time again. Her latest venture is in the APA Gerontology fellowship specialisation training program. She already has her PhD, a Grad Cert in Physio and is an APA Titled Gerontological Physio. She has held multiple academic university and clinical lead roles, and is on the faculty for Vestibular Education Australia. Her clinical passions are older adult, vestibular and aquatic rehabilitation and this episode does not disappoint on any of those fronts.
4:01 - Career pathway
8:10 - Juggling part time roles
9:20 - Current role
10:25 - Under-dosing exercise in older adults
14:00 - Patient beliefs, anxieties and our role
17:30 - Risk aversion in hospital
23:10 - How Ann maximises therapy in her unit
24:50 - Hydrotherapy for older adults
29:10 - Registrar training for APA Fellowship
36:50 - Driving clinician level research
43:35 - Importance of vestibular "phone a friend"
45:10 - Central vestibular dysfunction
48:10 - Tips for teaching vestibular pathophysiology
54:10 - Ann's vestibular courses
Links
email: ann.rahmann@uqconnect.edu.au
6 day vestibular competency course
2 day introduction to vestibular course
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