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Professional Competence in Physiotherapy (compulsory) (10 cr)

Code: 7F00EC24-3003

General information


Enrolment period

02.07.2023 - 31.07.2023

Timing

01.08.2023 - 31.12.2023

Credits

10 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Physiotherapy

Campus

TAMK Main Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Tarja Tittonen
  • Ilkka Piiroinen

Person in charge

Ilkka Piiroinen

Groups

  • 21FY

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

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

In a passed mark, the student:
- is able to combine existing knowledge, new research data and best practices in a flexible, creative and creative way appropriately in different fields of physiotherapy
- is able to structure in writing describing links between the physiotherapy-related information, phenomena and concepts
- is able to evaluate their own skills in a developing way and shows that improving their skills is active
- co-operates responsibly, flexibly and constructively and understands the limits of their physiotherapeutic competence in multiprofessional collaboration

In a failed mark, the student's basic knowledge is inadequate and the application of the data in the rejected performance is flawed. The student avoids active participation in learning situations. The student neglects
preparation and does not take advantage of the feedback received.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail