Bachelor coming up!

[phunphysio]

Auckland New Zealand is 4 years, covers mainly anatomy and physiology, ethics etc the first year, second year was neuroscience, electrotherapy, cardioresp, musculoskeletal, developmental, pathology. Third year was practical with musculo, neuro and cardio placements 6 weeks each. 4th year was mainly prac with some specialty topics like spinal manips etc.

Otago New Zealand has a similar format but first year is a general health science with all prospective health sciences students together, dental, medical, pharmacology, physio's etc. Then a 3 year concentrated degree so 4 years in total.

Sydney Australia is 4 years with not dissimilar layout, however I have found that my students from Sydney now are closed minded in alot of their approaches. They are very "carr and shepard" focused with their neurology where as in New Zealand we were taught all apporaches from Bobaths key points to nurodevelopmental approaches and were told to choose what best suited the patient.

Good luck

[Physioindeed]

Hi
there has been actually a slightly heated discussion in this forum
(topic physiotherapy overseas, German challenges)
I studied in Germany.
Three years only. I have a exact description of the course (about 10 pages long with detailed listings of topics in each subjects and amount of hours this was studied for (needed to produce this to get registration with HPC)
A little difficult was that the names of the subject are slightly different.
What the English people call "musculoskeletal" is the German "Orthopaedy",
the English "Respiratory" is the German "Inner Medecin" - very confusing.
I also have to control myself not to write "Physiotherapie" like we do in Germany
Well if you think It would be of use for you I can scan in the description of my course (subject and hours) and send it to you. Let me know
best regards
Annette

[henner]

Hi Anne,

I follow that Annette has gotten in touch with you already about the German "Diploma" level (3 yrs vocational school) curriculum.

If you have any other questions regarding German PT BA programs don't hesitate contacting me.

Regards,

Henner