How This Physio Built a Clinic Before He Even Opened One | GYC Podcast 384

Okay.

Maybe talk to us about after graduation, you know, how did you decide on which job to take and what were the, what was it like being on the employee side of the private practice world?

Yeah, well, I actually went and I already had a job lined up at the place that I was working, which I just mentioned wasn't the greatest.

But for me, it was awesome.

I think at the time, I was just happy to get into the workforce, work for a private practice because that's what I wanted to do.

And I went in like sort of with my eyes open a bit to the challenges of that particular clinic.

But at the same time, I was really excited just to get in and start practicing, start building a list, doing all those things.

And actually, now that I think about it, Um, there are a couple of other things from more business point of view that this clinic did in particular that I replicated in the clinic that I opened now.

For example, it was more like a bulk build medical center would operate.

Like patients would, would turn up, they'd have an appointment time, but they wouldn't be allocated a physio.

It was kind of whoever was around would see the next patient.

It was really interesting.

It was the only one in the sort of that I know of that was sort of using that model.

Um, but I really appreciated the, I think the patients were bought into the clinic, not the clinician.

And as a clinic owner, that's something that I wanted to try to replicate from a way that, yeah, maybe have a little bit of both.

And that's what we've kind of done in our practice.

That's an interesting learning.

I like that.

Just say more about your mindset as a new grad, right? You said, I was hungry to build a list and just happy to get a job.

Do you feel you still see that with graduates that come out now? Or what would you say to graduates coming out? We often hear the sensationalist stories on social media of the entitled Gen Z or Gen Alpha that only wants to work a three-day work week and suffers the B word burnout after seeing 15 patients a week.

What would you say to the graduates that are coming out now about those first couple of years and your mindset going into your first graduate

year? I think for me, what I would say now is I wouldn't be afraid of burnout.

I'd be afraid of not learning and not growing as a clinician.

And for me, that would be the focus that I'd put the new grads in.

I think that The benefit of being a physio is there's just endless opportunities to learn.