GP049: Designing Novel Work-Models with Sara Abassbhay

Sara Abassbhay completed her Bachelor of Sciences in Rehabilitation and her Master of Sciences (applied) in Physical Therapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her career has taken her all over the world and she has practiced as a physiotherapist in Singapore, Ghana, and Canada. More recently, she was working in the Yukon Territory in northern Canada and on a Mercy Ship near Sierra Leone. Sara has also dipped her toe in animal rehabilitation. And this year, she will begin her PhD in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to talking about Sara’s fascinating career in global health, we talk about burnout amongst physiotherapists and how this connects with the limitations of the Western biomedical model. Sara encourages physiotherapists to question the framework that we practice within and highlights the importance of getting uncomfortable. We discuss the value of creating novel work-models and the challenges that come with that. Resources: – McGill Global Health Rehabilitation Initiative Podcast – Mercy Ships Contact Us: – Website: globalphysio.ca – E-mail: [email protected] – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalphysiopodcast/ – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/globalphysiopodcast – Twitter: https://twitter.com/globalptpodcast