To get into Physiotherapy you need commitment, persistence, and even then a little luck. But if it is really what you want to do, it is worth it. After two years of hard work, I am as enthusiastic as ever.
Placements can be very varied.
I was allowed into an operating theatre during major surgery - open heart, heart bypass, hip replacement. It is one thing to read about the heart in a book, but quite another to see an actual heart pumping away. The amputee placement was the most rewarding of all. Oh, and I went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the USA for a five-week placement at the end of the second year. About five of us went to different parts of the States, visiting specialist centres.