Physiotherapy

Within the bachelor programme „Physiotherapy“ students are both educated for existing and developing work areas as well as for scientific work in the fields of activity of physiotherapy. Graduated students will both have well-founded physiotherapeutical and scientific knowledge and skills as well as excellent social skills and some basic knowledge of Business Administration.

Additionally, they’ll have knowledge and skills in one interdisciplinary and two physiotherapeutical specialisations.

By in the Program integrated courses “medical English” the graduates will be able to use international scientific literature and to communicate and work on a professional level in the context of international co-operation.

Career Possibilities

Graduates will be enabled to work as employed or as free-lance physiotherapists in both the intramural and extramural as well as in the scientific sector of the health care system sector. The students are educated to work in the following fields of employment:

• Private and public hospitals
• Day hospitals
• Spa center
• Elderly and nursing homes
• Rehabilitation centres
• Social and private insurance companies
• Trade unions, chamber for employees' welfare and professional associations
• Educational und research institutions
• Producers of medical products
• Institutions of health prevention and health promotion

Core Modules

• Intra- and interdisciplinarity in the field of Physiotherapy
• Biomedical fundamentals
• Functional disorders of the human body
• General physiotherapeutical techniques
• The physiotherapeutical diagnosis and treatment process
• Social and applied human sciences
• English
• Scientific research
• Professional practical training
• 2 physiotherapeutical specialisation
• 1 interdisciplinary specialisation

Core Competences and Lectures

• Basic principles of scientific research
• Research process
• General methodology
• Search and proper use of literature
• Data analysis and presentation
• Presentation techniques
• Bachelor thesis seminars

Business Administration and juridical competences

• Jurisprudence within the Healthcare System
• Basics of Business Administration in the Field of Physiotherapie

Specialisations/optional lectures

• Clinical Themes in the Field of Physiotherapy A or B
• Physiotherapy for People with Special Needs C or D
• Pedagogic in the Field of Physiotherapy (E) or
• Research in the Field of Physiotherapy (F)
• A, B, C, D, E, F = optional lectures

Diploma Supplement

Upon graduation all students will receive – issued free of charge and in two languages –a Diploma Supplement in order to facilitate academic and professional recognition of the certified qualifications.

• Diploma Supplement - German
• Diploma Supplement - English