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Professional Competence in Physiotherapy (10 cr)

Code: 7F00CS03-3001

General information


Enrolment period
15.05.2015 - 30.01.2016
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
01.08.2015 - 31.07.2016
Implementation has ended.
Credits
10 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
Physiotherapy
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Physiotherapy, students who began in 2013 or earlier
Teachers
Tarja Tittonen
Person in charge
Tarja Tittonen
Course
7F00CS03

Objectives (course unit)

Students

- evaluate and promote the children’s and young people’s ability to move and operate through physiotherapy
- design and implement physiotherapy in the everyday lives of the children and young people
- know the services aimed at the elderly in the service system and their contents
- apply evidence-based physiotherapy
- see the customer as a bio-psycho-social entity
- work as experts in physiotherapy in multiprofessional contexts
- plan and reflect on their own professional development and gain the skills needed to enter the working life
- know the possibilities of rehabilitation technology and can make good use of them in physiotherapy

Content (course unit)

- special characteristics of physiotherapy for the children and young people
- changes brought upon by aging and their impact on a person’s ability to function
- evidence-based physiotherapy
- research-based effective physiotherapy and rehabilitation
- cost-effective physiotherapy and rehabilitation

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