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One participant completed all four pre-course lesson groups in a single session. Another spread their study across 19 days.
Both walked in ready.
That's the argument for self-paced pre-learning. It removes the barrier β "I don't have a full week free" β without removing the dep
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Most CPD workshops have the same problem β participants arrive at different levels of readiness and the day gets pitched at the middle. Time gets wasted. Clinical application gets compressed.
For the SSRM intensive, pre-course completion was required, structured, and tracked. He
In June we ran a CMMS One-Day Intensive for the Swiss Hand Society in Fribourg, Switzerland. Before anyone walked through the door, every participant had already completed four structured online lesson groups.
I tracked every submission. This is what that looked like.
Each row
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Jun 10
π A hand therapist from Buenos Aires stopped to share this. We're honoured.
"Hello, my name is Paula Simaro. I'm an occupational therapist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I would like to share a tool that has the potential to support and strengthen our training as hand therapists
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Jun 8
Back in South Africa. πΏπ¦
The flights are done. The bags are unpacked. And I'm sitting with something that's hard to put into words.
Switzerland gave me more than a congress. It gave me a room full of clinicians who care about the same things I do. Old friendships reignited acro
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Jun 7
From a South African clinic to Switzerland. To Basel. To an international AI panel.
CMMS isn't a local methodology anymore β if it ever was.
The hand therapy community is global. The clinical challenges are universal. The need for structured reasoning doesn't change with the ti
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Jun 7
Geneva. Sunday. Stillness.
After a week of training, workshops, panels, and corridors filled with clinical conversations β this is the reset.
I'll be back home soon. But I'm leaving Switzerland with something I didn't quite expect: confirmation.
That CMMS belongs in the clinic
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Jun 6
The congress is done. And now β Geneva. π¨π
A few days with friends who've known me longer than hand therapy has. The kind of rest that actually restores.
But I keep thinking about what this week meant. CMMS in a Swiss training room. An international panel on AI in healthcare. C
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Jun 6
The panel is done. The workshop is done. The training is done.
What remains: the conversations that happened after. In corridors. Over coffee. Between clinicians who didn't know each other before this week and won't forget each other now.
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Jun 5
TODAY. 4pm. Basel. π
I'm presenting on the international panel on AI in healthcare at the EFSHT Congress.
We'll be talking about what AI actually does in a clinical reasoning context β not the hype, not the fear, but what happens when learning is made easier.
#EFSHTCongress
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Jun 4
Today. Basel. EFSHT Congress. ποΈ
This morning: a 2-hour CMMS workshop with my colleague Johanna Jacobson-Petrov.
The room was full. The questions were sharp. Every hand therapist who walked out left with a clinical reasoning framework they can apply tomorrow morning in their cl
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Jun 3
EFSHT Congress, Basel
June 4th: A 2-hour workshop with my colleague Johanna Jacobson-Petrov β hands-on, clinical, practical.
June 5th: An international panel on AI in healthcare β 4pm.
If you're at the congress, come find us. Come to the workshop. Come to the panel.
#EFSHT
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Jun 2
Day 1 of CMMS training with the Switzerland Hand Society. β
There is nothing quite like watching experienced clinicians have the moment β the one where the framework clicks and the case they've been puzzling over suddenly makes sense.
That moment is why I do this. Not the trav
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Jun 1
The Switzerland Hand Society clinicians ask the right things. Not "does this work?" β they can see it works. But "why does it work here and not here?" That's a CMMS conversation.
Training continues. The preparation has been everything.
π Fribourg, Switzerland
#CMMS
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May 31
One day before training begins with the Switzerland Hand Society.
Tomorrow I walk into a room of Swiss clinicians who have spent their careers mastering hand rehabilitation. My job isn't to impress them β it's to give them a framework that makes their clinical decisions sharper.
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May 30
Landed in Zurich. π¨π
The mountains are beautiful. The air is clean. And in three days, the CMMS training begins.
#Zurich #Switzerland #HandTherapy #CMMS #ClinicalReasoning #HandTherapist #EFSHTCongress
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May 29
Tomorrow I fly to Zurich.
The Switzerland Hand Society begins CMMS training on June 2nd. The EFSHT Congress kicks off in Basel on June 4th. The AI panel is June 5th at 4pm.
#HandTherapy #CMMS #Switzerland #Zurich #EFSHTCongress #ClinicalReasoning #AIHealthcare
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May 28
Packing for a clinical journey looks different than packing for a holiday.
Preparation is a practice of its own.
3 days to Zurich. π§³
#HandTherapy #CMMS #ClinicalReasoning #Switzerland #HandTherapist #ClinicalExcellence
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May 27
The EFSHT Congress. Basel, Switzerland. June 4-5.
The European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy brings together the best clinical minds in hand rehabilitation from across the continent.
On June 4th, I'll be running a 2-hour CMMS workshop alongside my colleague Johanna J
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May 26
25 years. 15 countries. One methodology.
CMMS was built in the clinic β refined case by case, failure by failure, breakthrough by breakthrough.
When the Switzerland Hand Society reached out, I knew this wasn't just a training trip. It was confirmation that structured clinical r
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