Real Clinician Emily - New graduate year and deepening our conversational learning as nourishing reflective practice

This episode we welcome our second guest into our podcast home, Emily McIvor. Em is a new graduate physiotherapist who is currently working in private practice on the Sunshine Coast after finishing study in Melbourne last year. We explore reflective practice, in particular creating space for ourselves to learn that nourish us and differ from the learning environments at university. Em shares her insights around how she has resourced herself to cope with the inherent challenges of being a new graduate in the current healthcare climate. Themes emerge around cultivating her personhood, holding uncertainty and feelings oof inadequacy, the value of mentors that lower expectations and reassure, and how the process of evolving as a clinician takes time, support, and slowing down. Em strongly advocates for more conversational learning in environments where curiosity and nonjudgement are centred - and Alex and I couldn’t agree more!This episode is a beauty for any new graduates out there feeling alone or isolated.
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