Raffaella Aspesi
R. Aspesi - Accompanying students by fostering personal and professional development
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Raffaella Aspesi is a professional lecturer on the Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy; she teaches several common and specific modules, dealing with the management and planning of internships and the module 'Personal and Professional Development Pathway'.
Which modules do you teach within the Bachelor in Physiotherapy?
I work as a lecturer within various modules, both specific to the Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy and common to the three Bachelor's degrees in the healthcare area (Physiotherapy, Ergotherapy and Nursing); I also manage and plan internships in collaboration with the heads of the Bachelor's degree course in Physiotherapy and the module 'Personal and professional development pathway'.
How important are internships in students' education? Where do they take place and what skills do they enable students to acquire?
One of the special features of the Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy is the presence of practical work placements and a module that accompanies the student throughout his or her training ("Personal and Professional Development Pathway"). Within the training there are four internships with different durations depending on the year of attendance. These moments are an integral part of the training pathway as they enable the student to acquire the practical expertise needed to perform the profession and also allow him/her to transform the knowledge learnt into usable concepts in the activities to be carried out. The spheres in which placements take place are varied in order to give the student the opportunity to see the diversity of contexts, approaches, problems and realities; this is why it is possible to do an internship in Hospitals, Clinics, old people's homes, in proven studies, abroad or in cooperation.
The aim is to enable the acquisition of the skills proper to the physiotherapist's role such as communication/relational skills, collaborative skills, management skills and, last but not least, specific skills.
What does the 'Personal and professional development pathway' module that accompanies the student during training consist of instead?
On the other hand, the "Personal and professional development pathway" module that accompanies the student focuses on reflective practice and the implementation of an aptitude for introspection; aspects that characterise and transversally run through the entire training and are in line with the national competence profiles. The tutor who accompanies the student over the three-year period represents that figure who facilitates the acquisition of human as well as professional skills, i.e.虁 to accompany the overall maturation of the person, fostering the integration of the cognitive, affective and behavioural spheres. The key words of the course are support, accompany, foster, promote change, which alternate during the meetings with the students.
What do you particularly appreciate about your work as a teacher?
鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�婥onfrontation with students is for me the key element of my work as a teacher: it is enriching and stimulating; it is a continuous stimulus in the search for ways to make the content usable for everyone. It is a fundamental confrontation within an education that today appears to be more and more articulated because it is aimed at the development of specific but also transversal competences designed to open one's eyes to a phenomenological approach to care.