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The Allied Health professions have a challenge.  Retaining Physios and others in clinical practice is a key issue as the slide above demonstrates. If 19% of Physios are looking to leave the profession in the next five years we need to consider what we can do to arrest that loss of well trained professionals.

Do you have a post-graduation career journey plan?

Graduation is only the start of a great journey!  Any journey needs a plan! In part two of this article I will look at how you can develop referrer relationships, and a referral base, the importance of volunteering to learn, some of the concerns and issues that new grads face and a summary of the key considerations for new grads.

Graduation is only the start of a great journey!  Any journey needs a plan! What you do next after graduation is detailed in this article with some of the considerations from my book “The Health Practitioners journey” This article will help you approach the early years with an effective plan!

Managers and business owners are always looking to assist their people to improve their performance. Maybe we should shift gears a little and consider how we can lead performance rather look at managing performance via a review.

Let me know what you think.

Best MK

I am happy to outline my reasons for my involvement in YM3. Serving and building associations and businesses to be their best and provide much needed support for their members is a key and important functions of these entities

Have you considered taking on an equity partner?

In the second part of “Taking on equity partners” I present some options to consider when you are looking to grow your business, start a practice and take on those with an interest in equity.

I have recently been working with clients who are keen to explore the best way to introduce either current practitioners or other colleagues as equity partners to their businesses.

I continue to do this in my own business pursuits with the most recent example being the opening of Lilydale Physio and Sports Medicine www.lpsm.au with several new equity partners, some of whom appear in the photo!

My journey as a Sports Physiotherapist working with people with traumatic and degenerative Osteoarthritis led me to consider what options for treatment there might be other than pain relief, exercise or joint replacement surgery! My journey into stem cells as a therapy began!