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In clinic today whilst observing, I was very impressed and interested in how relevant the practitioner can make the treatment and exercise/management plans to the patients personal life without over-stepping the patient practitioner boundary. I felt this showed a perfect model of the communication skills and patient partnership which the OPS aim to instil.

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One thing I have already noticed is that the first part of any technique we are taught is to make sure it is safe for the patient and that it can be executed safely and to the highest possible quality. There are no times where patient safety is compromised in order to perform a technique and there is always a safe alternative.

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After receiving treatment from my home osteopath, the ESO clinic and also observing in the ESO clinic i can say that despite the very different styles of practice, they have all been carried out with the same professionalism and every time there is the same baseline process, but just carried out in ways which suit each different practitioner.

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Being sat in the team room in the clinic where students are conferring with each other and the tutor about their cases and talking about how and why they are going to treat their patient makes me feel very excited about my journey to come in osteopathy and motivates me to study hard and perform my skills well in lectures at Boxley so when i get to clinic i will hopefully have a good transfer of skills to the clinical environment.

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Despite having mostly good experiences in clinic. I have observed a time where I felt that the practitioner purposely administered the wrong and ineffective techniques as opposed to asking the tutor for help before starting to practice. The tutor did correct the techniques when the practitioner relayed what they had done to the patient although i felt there was a fractious relationship between student and tutor which may be why they felt reluctant to ask for help.

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During my observation in clinic today, I sat in on a returning patient who was having maintenance treatment for OA hip and some swelling in the thigh and knee. This patient always has the same practitioner and together they have worked out a way for her the practitioner to be able to access to patients body while she stays covered using a blanket/shoal. I though this really encapsulated patient partnership.