PolyU Summer Programme 2019 – Physiotherapy (PT) was successfully held on 27 June 2019 with over 80 secondary five students from top local secondary schools. The programme aims to enhance the understanding of anatomy for physiotherapy practice.
Dr Billy So, Assistant Professor (PT), welcomed the participants and introduced the content of the programme. In order to let the participants to warm up and get to know each other, current PT students from Physiotherapy Students’ Society (PSS) led the ice-breaking activities after the opening speech.
After the ice-breaking activities, participants were divided into 4 groups to take turns to attend different mini-lecture sessions, which were:
- "Anatomy and Physiology of cardiorespiratory system" by Dr Alex Cheung (Research Assistant Professor, PT);
- "Functional Anatomy in Lower Limb" by Dr Billy So (Assistant Professor, PT);
- "Human Anatomy: Facilities and Learning experience" by Dr Stanley Winser (Assistant Professor, PT); and
- "Fundamental neuroscience research using animal models" by Dr Sonata Yau (Assistant Professor, PT) respectively. The participants enjoyed the mini-lecture sessions since they can experience the mock class of PT programmge.
At the end of the programme, Dr Billy So shared the information about admission requirements, course content and career perspective of PT programme.
