Physiotherapy (pre-registration) (Taught)

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This course is open to applications in Spring 2023 (exact dates to be confirmed). Applications outside of this period may be considered.

Course summary

• Study advanced physiotherapy on a course with a high level of student satisfaction.

• Become a highly skilled, evidence-based clinician.

• Gain a specialist level of theoretical and practical understanding.

• Benefit from well-regarded teaching and excellent clinical placement opportunities.

• Train at one of the largest and most established physiotherapy education departments in the UK.

This Masters-level physiotherapy course provides you with specialist training, qualifications and opportunities to help you embark on an exciting career in the field. Aimed at applicants who have already studied a degree in the subject, you’ll gain an advanced level of clinical reasoning, critical thinking and reflection.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The teaching is based around the development of the key transferable skills you need to become a qualified physiotherapist. You’ll undertake practice-based learning experiences in a variety of settings while benefiting from a wide range of teaching and learning methods.

You learn through

• practicals and seminars

• portfolios

• online materials

• webinars

• practice-based learning environments

You’ll study academic modules at our Collegiate Campus and gain practice-based learning experience in a variety of service provider venues. You’ll also share modules with other health and social care professionals – who may include occupational therapists, dieticians and social workers.

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the physiotherapy profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a physiotherapist.

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

Clinical Reasoning In Physiotherapy
Creating Original Practice
Evaluating Research Methodologies
Key Principles In Physiotherapy
Placement Pr1
Placement Pr2
Professional Practice
Understanding Complexity In Practice

Final year

Compulsory modules

Advanced Clinical Reasoning In Physiotherapy
Evaluating Complexity In Practice
Placement Pr3
Placement Pr4

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Health and Care Professions Council
• Physiotherapy, Chartered Society of