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Lying about physio work experience

I want to get on a physio degree but I have no experience I find it really hard to get any, I do voluntary work on a rehab ward but this is not work experience so do you think they would find out if I said on the application that I have shadowed a physiotherapist or something? I rang up the course information and they said that it is preffered if you have a wie range of work experience :frown:

Reply 1

JackieS

11

saturn

I want to get on a physio degree but I have no experience I find it really hard to get any, I do voluntary work on a rehab ward but this is not work experience so do you think they would find out if I said on the application that I have shadowed a physiotherapist or something? I rang up the course information and they said that it is preffered if you have a wie range of work experience :frown:

If you said you shadowed the physio expect to be asked about what you saw.................if you lie what on earth will you sya you did - make it up? Uni's MAY rescind your place if you they find otu you lied..............

moral of this story

DON'T lie whatever you do........................if you can't get any work experience take a year out, work as an assistant...................or speak top the physios who come on to the ward you work on and ask them

don't lie - its just not worth it, and no offence but its down right rude and disrespectful to all those students who DO have experience

Reply 2

saturn

OP

JackieS

If you said you shadowed the physio expect to be asked about what you saw.................if you lie what on earth will you sya you did - make it up? Uni's MAY rescind your place if you they find otu you lied..............

moral of this story

DON'T lie whatever you do........................if you can't get any work experience take a year out, work as an assistant...................or speak top the physios who come on to the ward you work on and ask them

don't lie - its just not worth it, and no offence but its down right rude and disrespectful to all those students who DO have experience

Ive already taken a year out because I didn't have experience last year, so I have been volunteering for a year while trying to get experience, a physio gave me a tour of the unit and what physio's do etc does this not count as anything? Honestly I have rang up and wrote to every place I can think of where I live and can't get experience.

Reply 3

Riddy

JackieS

If you said you shadowed the physio expect to be asked about what you saw.................if you lie what on earth will you sya you did - make it up? Uni's MAY rescind your place if you they find otu you lied..............

moral of this story

DON'T lie whatever you do........................if you can't get any work experience take a year out, work as an assistant...................or speak top the physios who come on to the ward you work on and ask them

don't lie - its just not worth it, and no offence but its down right rude and disrespectful to all those students who DO have experience

I agree, on the other hand I think it takes the p*** if he has volunteered for a year on a ward with physio's and this isn't good enough. Id say it is disrespectful to him if those who have a days experience here and there get on when he has helped out for a year.. a similar thing happened to me with Radiography.

Reply 4

iolaus

6

Rather than calling it work experience why not a 'during my time volunteering on a rehabilitation ward I feel I have learnt a great deal both about patient contact and the role of the physiotherapist. I have spoken to several (a) physiotherapist(s) in order to try to gain insight into the work and the training, I am certain that this is the career for me.

Reply 5

supreme

4

saturn

I want to get on a physio degree but I have no experience I find it really hard to get any, I do voluntary work on a rehab ward but this is not work experience so do you think they would find out if I said on the application that I have shadowed a physiotherapist or something? I rang up the course information and they said that it is preffered if you have a wie range of work experience :frown:

Same with nursing I know what you mean they insist on all this experience but they seem to make offers to people who either don't have any experience or have just worked in a care home, obviously there is a big difference between them. Care homes just want girls. A hospital is more demanding, yet they get offers still. Definate discrimination for males trying to get onto the nursing course.

Reply 6

saiira

Tell them how hard you've been trying to get the work experience as well something similar to the stuff Iolaus wrote - the attempts to get experience must count for something - it shows dedication to the cause after all... :smile:

Did they tell you that the volunteering you've done doesn't count for anything?

I feel a bit bad now, I've been offered a place on a nursing course and have no experience - i only have experience in selling high end computer equipment to investment banks.. :dontknow:

Reply 7

iolaus

6

I didn't have any experience when I got offered my place, I think I put something along the lines of how hard it was to get experience so I had spoken to people doing the job to find out what the job involved

Reply 8

Gosnold

I was lucky i was able to get a bank HCA job at my local hospital which then made it a hell of alot easier to get work experience at a local hospital. When i applied i only had my HCA experience which looked good. Im sure if you put down about your volunteering and keep trying for work experience. At the end of the day if your personal statement is good and you are good at interview you will have no probs :smile:

Reply 9

JackieS

11

Gosnold

I was lucky i was able to get a bank HCA job at my local hospital which then made it a hell of alot easier to get work experience at a local hospital. When i applied i only had my HCA experience which looked good. Im sure if you put down about your volunteering and keep trying for work experience. At the end of the day if your personal statement is good and you are good at interview you will have no probs :smile:

Ok....firstly I never actually said that his work on a rehab ward wasn't good enough................YES it will look good on hispersonal statement, but the point I was trying to make was that physio admissions tutors WILL be looking for people with experience of the physio environment......working on a rehab ward is NOT physio experience................by all means write about it...I will definitely advise you to do that, but at the end of the day not having any physioe xperience will put you at a DISTINCT disadvantage to those that even have a day..................how do you know you'll be good in that envoronment if you never been in it? And if you check the prospectuses of the physio uni's 99.9% of them say that work experience in a physio envirnment is a pre-requisite to entry.......therefore having no experience is likely to get you rejected.............

There must be physios that come onto your ward, try asking them. I'm not saying that physio experience is easy to come by, cos I know for a fact its not.........but lying is NOT the way forward

Reply 10

Fynn

JackieS

Ok....firstly I never actually said that his work on a rehab ward wasn't good enough................YES it will look good on hispersonal statement, but the point I was trying to make was that physio admissions tutors WILL be looking for people with experience of the physio environment......working on a rehab ward is NOT physio experience................by all means write about it...I will definitely advise you to do that, but at the end of the day not having any physioe xperience will put you at a DISTINCT disadvantage to those that even have a day..................how do you know you'll be good in that envoronment if you never been in it? And if you check the prospectuses of the physio uni's 99.9% of them say that work experience in a physio envirnment is a pre-requisite to entry.......therefore having no experience is likely to get you rejected.............

There must be physios that come onto your ward, try asking them. I'm not saying that physio experience is easy to come by, cos I know for a fact its not.........but lying is NOT the way forward

i agree with jackie when i went for interview ALL universities asked about my PHYSIO work expreience, ive also had a general experience within a hospital looking at all aspects but when i tried to elaborate they hurried me by onto the physio expreience and what areas i covered. no way round it :frown:

Reply 11

Sezkin

11

saturn

I want to get on a physio degree but I have no experience I find it really hard to get any, I do voluntary work on a rehab ward but this is not work experience so do you think they would find out if I said on the application that I have shadowed a physiotherapist or something? I rang up the course information and they said that it is preffered if you have a wie range of work experience :frown:

I know how you feel, I've spent all summer trying every hospital in my local area and nearly ever clinic I saw... It's really hard to get work experience...

However, I was lucky when one of the head of physiotherapist sent me to an work experience coordinater; since she knew how desperate I was :p:

... I've only got an open session but I think they would be choosing the best people to do the work experience... theres only 11 places. :eek:

Soz I havn't been much help but have you tried asking connextions?

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