Bachelor coming up!

Hi!
I'm a student from Denmark working hard to find a subject for my bahelor and was thinking that it could be interessting to compare our physioschools/ universities all over the world ( or most of it:)). After spending 10 weeks in a rehabilitationclinique at Malta recently, I was surprised how different the techniques we learn are, and I would like to know more about the lenght of the education, books, subjects etc.in other countries. In Denmark we have 3,5 years of school which seems to be short compared to other countries.
If you have any ideas or could help me with some informations I would be very happy.
Thank you
Anne

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

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

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