Digital innovation and public relations

A first-year physiotherapy student undertook a project placement involving digital innovation and public relations. The project was to develop the Alzheimer Scotland blog, twitter feed and communications. They learned a range of invaluable skills in public relations, communications, social media and digital innovation, in addition to preparing the material and ensuring this was evidence based. This was alongside time within Alzheimer Scotland public/service user facing services.

NHS Fife and Queen Margaret University

A third year BSc Hons occupational therapy and MSc final year physiotherapy student were on placement together. Their project involved building a health promoting activities resource for a specialist care home for people with learning disability, which had limited in reach from AHPs. This was alongside care home staff and the OT and Physio practice educator. This was a split placement for both students involving time spent within the community team setting and time within the care home. This placement gave them an insight into the daily running of a care home, learning more about each other’s roles as appreciated the wider range of activities they could include in the resource and report writing skills. The resource was left with the care staff to use it in the future.