Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) (Taught)

Why study this course?

Are you passionate about supporting people of all ages to improve their health and wellbeing? Want to see your expertise put into practice as your patients maximise their movement and function, to recover from injury, diseases, illnesses and the impact of ageing? Train as a physiotherapist on this postgraduate degree course at London Met. If you already have a science-based undergraduate degree then studying this course could be the start of a rewarding professional journey.

Our accelerated two-year qualifying course has been developed in collaboration with our highly experienced practice-based partners from a wide variety of health and social care settings, service users and student partners. This course will see you acquire knowledge of the clinical sciences underpinning physiotherapy practice, along with contemporary skills and attitudes to work flexibly across diverse settings within a modern health and social care sector.

More about this course

As a physiotherapist you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling people with a wide range of health conditions to improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life. This could mean using different therapeutic approaches such as exercises, manual therapy, communication skills, coaching and education. It’s therefore no wonder that thanks to your specialism you’ll make up a vital part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams!

During this course you’ll experience an excellent education, enabling environment and wide-ranging opportunities to gain the professional knowledge, skills, behaviour and values required to practise physiotherapy at a newly-qualified physiotherapists’ level. You’ll find that our curriculum nurtures the skills, behaviour and values necessary to your career-long development and practice.

When you study this master’s course at London Met, you can expect to:

• develop your professional practice, physiotherapy theory and evidence-based practice

• improve your research, leadership and management skills

• develop a holistic, person-centred approach

• establish your post qualifying continuing professional development (CPD) habits

• progress your career towards future advanced clinical practice

Please note, these modules are subject to validation and may change.

Foundations of Professional Practice
Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 1
Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 2
Research Methods for Evidence Based Practice
Practice Education 1*
Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 3
Leadership and Improving Healthcare
Advancing Physiotherapy Knowledge and Practice
Practice Education 2*

• Students will complete a minimum of 1000 practice education hours in various care settings within the health and social care sector in these two modules.

Assessment methods on this course are designed for you to get the most out of your learning and to prepare you for your practice placements and employment. They include:

seminar and poster presentations
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
case study essays
practical reports
prior disclosure/unseen examinations
critical essays
reflective essays
reflective portfolio
practice based assessments
master’s dissertation