WORKING GROUPS

Over the years there have been many changes in the way education is designed and delivered to students.Nowadays technology is a significant driver behind change, with major opportunity’s but also with disadvantages.

As an educator in podiatry the challenge is to monitor changes in technology, determining if they apply to podiatry students, and seeking ways to use technologies to complement and support instructional methodologies and practices.

This working group does focus on innovations in podiatric education.

To create a good base for collaboration between partner educational institutions it is important to know their qualifications, competences, skills and knowlegde. The possible differences in the scope of practice, eg. worksetting and patient categories and  the level of indepency and complexity regarding podiatric care.

This working group is created with the aim to increase transparency of the qualifications, competences, knowledge and skills within the European podiatry field.

With their first mission to evaluate, specify and recommend on the European Qualifications Framework levels in podiatry education and take into account earlier acquired competences and interface between levels.

For the long term the outcome of this working group can act as a translation device to make national podiatry qualifications more readable across Europe, promote workers’ and learners’ mobility between countries and facilitate lifelong learning.

Evidence based learning and evidence based practice are approaches to education and the clinical podiatric practice that has been gaining more attention over the years.

How do we handle the question to support our podiatry practice/skills and knowledge in our lessons with evidence in podiatric education.