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September 2008

Submitted by mlockner on 24 September, 2008 - 14:32
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September 2008
   
From the Secretary General and President

WCPT was founded on 8 September 1951 and since 1996 the date has also been used to celebrate World Physical Therapy Day.  This year's event was bigger than ever - thank you to everyone who participated. 

Work is continuing on WCPT's new website to be unveiled in 2009; preparations are underway for our next congress, World Physical Therapy 2011; and work is progressing on a number of projects emanating from the last general meeting.  The executive committee will meet in November to consider many of these, including standards for review of education programmes and international activity on ICF.

E-update is a tool to share short pieces of news and information with you on a monthly basis.  The length and content will vary, but we hope you will help us reach physical therapists around the world by sharing it with your members. If you would like to use all or part of this E-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free.

Kind regards,
Brenda J Myers and Marilyn Moffat

World Physical Therapy Day

A huge thank you for all the details and information you have sent us about the activities which took place to celebrate  World Physical Therapy Day.  We have been inundated with news from our member organisations around the world.  The next issue of WCPT News will feature full coverage of the events, but in the  meantime please see our website at http://www.wcpt.org/about/internationalptday/index.php

Reminder to Member Organisations

Please note that the deadline for comments on the new position statement 'Guidelines for Physical Therapy Record Keeping and Retrieval of Records for Patients' is fast approaching.  We should therefore be grateful if you would please ensure that the person responsible for this area in your organisation has been forwarded the document (if you no longer have the original email sent with the draft documentation, please do not hesitate to contact mlockner@wcpt.org and we will resend it).

We  have extended the deadline to 15 October 2008 allowing for any extra time needed.  Thank you for your co-operation.

WHO Project on PT and Diabetes Mellitus

Correction: there was a small print error in the email address featured in the August e-update.  The correct email is hamzeh.awad@med.uni-muenchen.de.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, is looking for physical therapists with outstanding expertise in the treatment of patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM). 

The participants will take part in an international study to validate a comprehensive International Classiciation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for DM from the perspective of physical therapists.  To participate please contact Hamzeh Awad, hamzeh.awad@med.uni-muenchen.de  (please send a copy of your request to mlockner@wcpt.org).  For more information on the ICF core sets projects see www.icf-research-branch.org.

WCPT News

If you have any stories which may be suitable for the next issue of WCPT News, please email them to Simon Crompton at news@wcpt.org.

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