Physiotherapy

Collaborative Practices in Health Care

This module aims to give you the opportunity to engage in a series of enquiry based learning activities focused on practice based scenarios designed to simulate interdisciplinary practice experiences. You will work alongside other health and social care colleagues, such as Occupational Therapists.

Health, Wellbeing and Exercise

You will gain an understanding of the impact that a physically active lifestyle has on health and well-being. During the module, you will have the opportunity to learn about and explore the evidence for achieving appropriate physical activity across a range of populations and conditions. You will develop an understanding of the underlying physiology of physical activity.

Research Methods and Analysis

This module will teach you the research process, the associated research methods, data analysis and the ethical considerations associated with health and social care research. This module focuses on the techniques and skills needed for data collection and analysis in quantitative and qualitative research designs. It provides you with advanced skills to critique research and determine its usefulness for evidence based practice.

Integrated Physiotherapy Practice

This module aims to enable you to develop essential skills, with a range of complex conditions that require a holistic, interdisciplinary approach and a synthesis of physiotherapy interventions. It is positioned before the first of their 5 placements. Where possible, you will be able to work with service users, carers and other experts to develop a client focused perspective.

Physiotherapy Management of Long-Term Conditions

This module aims to develop your understanding of the changing healthcare needs facing society and prepare students to work collaboratively with people with complex long term conditions across the lifespan. You will acquire the ability to use patient-centred clinical reasoning and multi-disciplinary care planning approaches to maintain and maximise independence, function and quality of life.

Practice Experience I and II

These two single modules are the first and second in a series of five practice modules where you will undertake a consolidated period of clinical practice. You are a fully integrated member of a clinical department or team. The placement locations and clinical content of each single module are individual to the student. You will have the opportunity to integrate, apply and develop the knowledge and skills introduced in university-based modules.

Practice Experience III, IV and V

In the third module, you will be expected to demonstrate appropriate levels of competent physiotherapy practice. All students have the opportunity to develop their practice across a variety of clinical areas and contexts and to negotiate for those educational and clinical experiences which are necessary to achieve the professional and statutory requirements. In the fourth module, you will be expected to demonstrate higher levels of knowledge and clinical reasoning to enable you to manage a clinical case load. In the fifth module, you will be expected to manage a clinical caseload consistent with the expectations of a newly qualified physiotherapist, with minimum support.

Dissertation/Project in Physiotherapy

This double module aims to develop your ability to perform a sustained and independent period of study involving critical investigation of a topic or issue of relevance to your practice as a physiotherapist.

Specialist Physiotherapy Practice

This module will offer you a number of masterclasses which you can select to construct your own bespoke specialist practice portfolio. It aims to enable you to develop comprehensive understanding of the knowledge base of selected contemporary specialties pertinent to global healthcare and relevant to your own particular interests.

Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care

You will learn the skills, knowledge and strategies to promote and develop effective leadership qualities to work in partnership with diverse teams/agencies across professional and organisational boundaries. This modules will develop critical insight and evaluation of individual professional development needs as a preparation for continuing professional development and future employment opportunities both national and international.

Work placements

Your studies will take place within the University and in diverse clinical practice settings ranging from hospitals to community based environments. Clinical education is an important part of the Physiotherapy course, taking place within years 2 and 3. During this period you will undertake the required 1,000 hours of clinical practice. You will focus on developing clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, taking a critically evaluative approach to practice while also developing a body of sound theoretical knowledge.

Choose from the modules listed in year 2.