We are now in our last 4 weeks of prac and many of us will currently have supervisors that have either graduated in the last 6 months or in the last 1-2 months.
I personally have found this amusing, despite the fact that they have passed one more exam than we have, it feels a little strange having supervisors, that are new to the workforce. I do think that we all can learn from anyone and everyone, but when the supervisor has had very little more experience than yourself, there will certainly be limitations to this.
I am not complaining at all, as my supervisor, is a lovely and knowledgable person from a fantastic tertiary institution!! who am enjoying working with. I certainly dont find it hard to learn from her, but because she has only been at this ward for 2 weeks longer than we have, there are areas that we both have to try and figure out. This has been achieved with questions being raised and recolecting from past prac experiences (the only experiences we have to look back on in terms of hospital experience).
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I am yet to have a supervisor who is a new grad, however I have worked with physios who were in the first year of employment. When working with those new grad physios it does allow you to reflect on how muhc their knowledge base has advanced since what we were taught at Uni, and how much more they potentially know then us. Alternatively, I have had a supervisor who had only started working at the hospital 9changed jobs), and was working for her first time in this specific area. I did find that to be somewhat disconcerting. While their knowledge base was amazing, I did find the lack of hands on experience in the area to be somewhat odd, although I do not believe it detracted from my experience on the clinic (other physios available).
I have had a few new grad supervisors who have worked for at least 6 months. I have enjoyed the prac with them, it was easier to approach them if I had questions as we were around the same age and bring up suggestions if I thought something was wrong as I think they were more flexible to changes compared to the 'older' physio who think their way is right coz they been around for so long. However, I think they may lack the 'teaching' side of being a supervisor as they are still new but this can be solved by having a CCT who is more experienced =)
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