Jordan Rutherford – Starting a private practice, benefits and risks, and reflections on university teaching

Physio Foundations

Jordan Rutherford is a physiotherapist with the Professional Golf Association of Australasia and the director of Launch Health in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of our teaching staff in Monash University Physiotherapy working in the first year of our undergraduate program. We talked about Jordan’s experiences in starting a private practice and his reflections on working in physiotherapy education.

In this episode

• 0:00 About this episode
• 3:45 About Jordan
• 6:47 Starting a private practice, benefits and risks, when to go for it and when may you be better off working for somebody
• 10:55 Supervising students in private practice
• 14:20 Going straight into private practice from university – selling points
• 17:20 What have you learnt working in undergraduate teaching as a clinician?
• 23:50 Helping students to bring together anatomy, clinical reasoning and clinical skills.
• 29:00 What are the most important knowledge and skills for a physiotherapist? Humility, honesty, knowing where your expertise lies

Thanks Jordan for a great conversation. Part 2 is dropping next week.

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