Physiopedia volunteer Candace Goh Xiao Huey has won third place at Malaysia’s National Ministry of Health Physiotherapy Conference for her review on the impostor phenomenon. The idea for the work began in one of our monthly volunteer team meetings in 2024.
Physiopedia volunteer content editor Candace Goh Xiao Huey presented her research on the impostor phenomenon at the National Ministry of Health Physiotherapy Conference in Langkawi, Malaysia, last month. Her e-poster was awarded third place out of more than 30 entries, a result Candace puts down to the topic being unique and new to many of her colleagues.
What makes this achievement especially meaningful for us is where it started. Every month, our global volunteer team comes together to share ideas and experiences, and in 2024 we spent one of those sessions exploring imposter syndrome. We talked openly about self-doubt, how it can follow us at every stage of our careers, and practical ways to manage it. That conversation sparked an idea for Candace, and she went on to develop it into research alongside Vidya Acharya and Kim Jackson.
The topic has personal relevance for Candace too. She previously drew on strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome to find confidence and calm before presenting at the 7th Ministry of Health Physiotherapy Conference, where she was awarded first place. It is fitting that the same conversations have now become research of her own.
Candace first shared this work at the World Physiotherapy Congress in Tokyo in 2025, and bringing it to colleagues back home in Malaysia was an important next step.
I am grateful for this community and the conversations here that push us to grow.
This latest recognition adds to a remarkable run for Candace. She has been a Physiopedia volunteer content editor for 8 years, leads a team of physiotherapists at Sabah Women and Children Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, and recently published a randomised controlled trial on upper limb rehabilitation after stroke. You can read more about her journey from Physiopedia contributor to published researcher here.
Congratulations, Candace, from all of us at Physiopedia. Your work shows how a conversation shared between volunteers around the world can grow into research that reaches and supports colleagues in your own country.
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