Course outline

Acquired skills

These are the main competences for which this degree will qualify you:

• A knowledge and understanding of the methods, procedures and actions of physiotherapy aimed at both therapy per se and clinical use for relearning and recovery of functions; actions aimed at promoting and maintaining health.
• A knowledge and understanding of the morphology, physiology, pathology and conduct of healthy and sick individuals in natural and social settings.
• A knowledge and understanding of the sciences, models, techniques and instruments that form the basis for the structure and development of physiotherapy.
• Acquiring clinical experience so as to gain intellectual abilities and technical and manual skills, to facilitate the incorporation of ethical and professional values and to develop the ability to integrate the knowledge acquired so that on completing their studies students are able to apply that knowledge to specific clinical cases in and outside a hospital context, and to actions in primary and community care.
• Acquiring skills in clinical management, including the efficient use of health resources; carrying out planning, management and control activities at the health care units where they work as physiotherapists, and engaging with other health services.
• Acting in the fields of health care promotion, protection and recovery and risk prevention.
• An ability to work with a specialist team as the basic unit of the single-discipline, multi-discipline and interdisciplinary structuring of medical personnel and other healthcare organisation employees.
• Assessing the functional abilities of patients, considering physical, psychological and social aspects.
• Assessing trends in results of treatment in comparison with targets set.
• Communicating effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with healthcare system users and other professionals.
• Designing physiotherapy action plans based on suitability, validity and efficiency.
• Factoring the ethical and legal principles of the profession into its practice, and considering social and community issues in decision-making.
• Providing a diagnostic assessment of physiotherapy according to internationally recognised regulations and validation instruments.
• Providing physiotherapy care based on all-round healthcare, entailing cooperation between different specialists, the integration of processors and continuity of care.