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From the President and Secretary General
The Executive Committee met in London in November to continue work on policy documents for the General Meeting in 2011. The draft position statement, The Consequences of Armed Violence, Landmines and other Weapons of War, which was previously circulated to member organisations, was finalised and is now available on the website. Work is continuing on the papers on regulation and accreditation/recognition of education programmes based on feedback received from member organisations. Once revisions are complete both papers will be circulated to member organisations again. Thank you to all who provided comments on these documents, your input has been helpful in moving them forward. The Executive Committee began work on papers addressing faculty qualifications and clinical education. Once completed, both of these will complement the existing curriculum guidelines on professional physical therapist entry level education and will be circulated to all WCPT member organisations for input.
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Kind regards,
Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published the November edition of its Bulletin. Focussing on strengthening the links between sexual and reproductive health and HIV, it is available to view at http://www.who.int/bulletin/en/.
Also published is a report titled Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563857_eng.pdf.
WHO's department of essential health technologies has launched a call for innovative technologies that address global health concerns. Manufacturers, institutions, universities, governments, individuals and non-government organisations are all eligible to apply. The closing date is 31 January. www.who.int/medical_devices.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3rd December, WCPT would like to bring your attention to the following activities and initiatives:
- the latest edition of the Enable newsletter has just been published. It is prepared by the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) with input from UN offices, agencies, funds and programmes. The latest edition may be read on-line at http://www.un.org/disabilities/.
- to promote the effective implementation of CRPD, Making it Work was set up as a multi-stakeholder initiative. Its projects address the significant gaps between the standards set by the CRPD, the standards of national policies and the reality on the ground for people with disabilities. For more information see www.makingitwork-crpd.org.
- an international seminar on access to services for persons with disabilities in challenging environments will take place in Amman, Jordan on 9-11 December 2009. For further information please contact Handicap International at Seminaire.Amman@handicap-international.org.
For further information on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and this year's theme, Making the Millennium Development Goals Inclusive: empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world, please go to http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1484.
ICF: the second issue of WCPT's ICF update has just been published to the WCPT website at www.wcpt.org/sites/wcpt.org/files/files/GH-ICF-Update_on_ICF-Dec2009.pdf. It contains references, resources and a report on ICF activities from around the world and is available to download as a PDF.
Landmines policy: a new draft Position statement, The Consequences of Armed Violence, Landmines and other Weapons of War, is now available at www.wcpt.org/node/32578. The draft is pending formal approval at WCPT's 2011 General Meeting.
WCPT's online continuing education partner, Educata, has just launched a new course, An Introduction to Rehabilitation Pilates, showing how pilates principles may be integrated into practice.
The course is taught by Brent Anderson, founder of Polestar Pilates, the leading global provider of rehabilitation-based pilates curricula. It introduces the physical therapist to pilates as a rehabilitation tool and discusses the fundamental principles that guide the movement sequencing on the pilates apparatus and mat work, utilising specific rehab populations to demonstrate the benefits of the equipment and exercises.
NOTE: WCPT member organisations and their members are eligible for a 20% discount on their first purchase of any EDUCATA course before 31 December 2009. To take advantage of this special pricing, visit www.wcpt.org/node/29540 and click through to EDUCATA to register.
Congratulations to the Canadian Physiotherapy Association for its journal, Physiotherapy Canada, being accepted into the PubMed Central (PMC) index. PMC is managed by the prestigious National Institutes of Health as a free digital archive of the best available biomedical and life sciences journals.
To be accepted into PMC, Physiotherapy Canada had to meet strict scientific quality standards and demonstrate its relevance as an essential evidence-based journal in physical therapy.
WCPT has been made aware that there is an ongoing internet physical therapy job scam. The scam targets international physical therapists, in particular those from the USA and Canada, offering high-level employment opportunities in Nigeria. For further information please visit www.nigeriaphysio.org/nigeria-physiotherapy-jobs-scam-alert.html.
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