Clinical Foundations: Your First Year in Practice

This course is designed to support new graduate physiotherapists as they navigate the clinical, professional, and personal challenges of their first year in practice. It provides practical guidance on choosing a supportive workplace, understanding employment contracts, and building a sustainable caseload through patient-centred care.

The course also addresses clinician wellbeing, introducing simple resilience frameworks and strategies to manage workload, uncertainty, and emotional fatigue. Participants will learn how to reduce documentation burden through thoughtful use of technology, protect their clinical reasoning, and focus their learning on foundational skills that drive long-term growth.

Rather than emphasizing perfection or productivity, this course prioritizes clarity, confidence, and sustainable practice—helping new graduates develop into capable, grounded clinicians who can thrive in modern healthcare environments.

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What's in the course?

You’ll learn how to find your footing as a new physio, make smarter decisions about where (and how) you work, communicate clearly with patients, and build habits that actually make your days feel easier.

We’ll help you organize your learning, cut down on mental clutter and paperwork, and use simple frameworks to guide your clinical thinking—so you can focus less on “Am I doing this right?” and more on becoming a confident, capable clinician who enjoys the work.

5 self-paced learning modules

5 self-paced learning modules focused on the realities of a new graduate physiotherapist’s first year

Workplace Questions

Guidance on choosing the right workplace, including culture fit, mentorship, and contract considerations

Keep your flame lit

Resilience and wellbeing tools, including the Resiliency Stoplight framework and boundary-setting strategies

Cutting back on charting

Practical strategies to reduce documentation burden, including ethical use of AI scribe tools

What do patient's want?

Patient-centred approaches to building and maintaining a caseload without pressure or sales tactics

Learning in Year 1

Support for identifying individual learning interests and curiosities to guide ongoing professional development

Course Lessons

About Sean

Sean Overin is a physiotherapist, educator, and healthcare leader with a passion for helping clinicians build sustainable, meaningful careers. With years of experience working in clinical practice, education, and leadership, Sean has supported clinicians at all stages—from new graduates finding their footing to experienced practitioners refining their craft.

He is deeply interested in clinical reasoning, patient-centred care, and reducing unnecessary complexity in healthcare systems. Sean enjoys teaching in a practical, down-to-earth way and is known for making challenging concepts feel approachable and useful. He looks forward to sharing real-world insights, simple frameworks, and tools that help clinicians grow with confidence while protecting their wellbeing and curiosity.