Jane has worked as a Physiotherapist in the acute hospital setting, covering orthopaedics, neuro rehab, medical & surgical wards, and ICU. She specialised in Musculo-skeletal physiotherapy and worked in Private Practice in Dublin, Limerick, and Clare.

Qualifications:

BSc in Physiotherapy (University College Dublin). MSc in Physiotherapy (University College London). Diploma in Clinical Teaching (University of Galway).

Teaching experience:
She was Clinical Tutor for UCD students at the Mater Hospital for several years and did part-time lecturing at the University of Limerick in Functional Anatomy and Musculo-skeletal assessment & treatment.

She joined the Practice Education Team in the School of Allied Health in UL in 2011 and works there as a Regional Placement Facilitator of Physiotherapy students – supporting students in a variety of placement sites and across the lifespan.

She was Chair of the Annual Practice Education Symposium committee from 2015-2020 providing training to Practice Educators across 4 disciplines nationwide.

During COVID-19, she supported students to assess patients with a range of neurological conditions virtually and to run exercise classes to meet the needs of these patients.

Also worked with community partners in Limerick to set up and run community placements for 4th year students (yearly from 2015-2019).

 

Professional memberships:
Member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and registered with CORU (PT 030910)

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Publications

 

INHED Conference (University of Limerick online March 2022) Oral presentation:

“A comparison of the perceived attainment of graduate skills and attributes on a telehealth versus onsite physiotherapy student placement”

Devenney K, Kavanagh J, Keating L, O’Donnell M.

School of Allied Health, University of Limerick

 

HSCP Practice Education Conference (Dublin, July 2018). Poster: “Preparing for Innovative Community Physiotherapy placements”. Kavanagh, J., & Murray, E., O’Donnell M.

Towards Unity for Health Conference (UL August 2018). Poster presentation: “Innovative Learning in Community Physiotherapy placements”. Kavanagh, J., & Murray, E.

Inter-professional Learning Conference (Dublin Castle, October 2015) “The benefits and challenges of student-led clinics: towards IPE.” Workshop presentation.

 

10th International Conference on Practice Teaching and Field Education in Health and Social Work (Glasgow, April 2014) “Student Education: ownership, initiative & inter-professional development.” Workshop presentation.

 

1st International Conference on Movement Dysfunction (Edinburgh, Sept 2000) Presented: “Is there a positional fault at the inferior tibio-fibular joint in patients with acute or chronic ankle sprains compared to normals?” Kavanagh J.