Where to study physio in UK?!?!!!!

[oscar]

fair enough, horses for courses! Yes I agree 3rd year is pretty late on...I did the MSc and we went on placement in our 1st year, much better in my mind too! As far as I know the head of physio has plans to change the structure of the course for that and other reasons....you do tend to find employers tend to take on new grads that have trained in that town, I guess out of familiarity as well as a understanding of the training that goes on there. You do of course get exceptions, I proved that myself by training at QMU and then getting a permanent job in Aberdeen, having never set a foot up here when I was a student!

At the end of the day its personal choice, go and have a look at the unis and decide for yourself!

[Laura01]

thats quite funny oscar- i trained up the road but now am working in glasgow was never on placement here either!
I suppose if your changing courses you have probably given it a good deal of thought already. I would suggest that you go and do a bit of shaddowing, visit a department and see exactly whats involved.
Laura

[tiger7372]

I'm a final year student in Manchester - it has a great reputation, good facilities (we are moving soon to a purpose built facility in leafy Didsbury) and so on. If you are a student who just does the work and so on it's great but they aren't too supportive of additional work you do. I chair the Students' Executive Committee for the CSP and also sit on CSP Council. I basically have to work my ass of as I get zero support from the uni (other unis do give plenty of support like Nottingham).

Some bits about Manchester though - one of the biggest schools (approx 140 / year); the first physio school in the country (1911); and the first to offer graduate physiotherapy. It has extensive links around the North West and usually yields well rounded and considerate graduates.

Visit the crappy website (MMU - Manchester Metropolitan University) for more info

Good luck!