23 March 2015

In preparation for our teaching activity, we spent the whole Monday making an instructional design for our patients. This involves creating a matrix containing the objectives, content, general strategy, resources, and evaluation, to help create a meaningful treatment plan for the patient we will treat.

I initially had difficulty creating the objectives, specifically one for the affective domain. Ma’am Dana pointed out that the objectives must be something the client has yet to do; otherwise it will be useless since it will be accomplished at the start of the session. For example, giving an already compliant patient an objective to teach compliance would be redundant. She also emphasized that a good objective must be specific and measurable. I learned that creating objectives plays a big part in treatment as it is the foundation of the treatment. Having good and relevant objectives makes the proceeding processes easier since everything else follows.

With regards to the content, we had to recall our previous treatment courses to be able to create an intervention which fits the client’s needs. I realized how far we’ve gone already. We were clueless about these interventions two years ago.

The strategy the PT will use will depend largely depend on the characteristics of the patient. It would’ve been nice to have met my patient before thinking of the strategy to teach. In practice, we could observe the patient to come up with the best strategy to teach them.

Evaluation is closely linked to objectives. The evaluation must be in congruence with the objectives set for it to be relevant to the treatment. Setting the correct evaluative measure is essential in keeping track of the patient’s improvements.

Making an instructional design for a patient is an important step in the treatment. Having a good one will probably help with the patient encounter itself.