looking for advice about postgradaue study at The University of melbourne

i want to complete my post graduate study in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, i have an offer letter from AUT in NewZealand but i want to apply in The University of Melborne (australia )

so i want ask about admission criteria and and master of musculoskeltal of physiotherapy (course work) at this university.

Thank you

Hi,

I am biased but...

Why go to Melbourne?

The places to be in Australia are University of Queensland, Curtin University in Western Australia and The University of Western Australia.

Melbourne is generally a sports physio type of uni. Sydney just sucks. Adelaide is not bad but he city is boring!

The best and latest research in motor control, whiplash, spine disorders etc is from Queensland and Western Australia.

I am at Uni of WA doing the Masters in Manual Therapy. It is an excellent course with high quality tuition. The course is also great because of it's format - 3 external units of study (~one year) and 12 weeks on campus study.

There are a lot of people from the UK and Ireland who do this course. Singapore and HK as well.

The other great thing is that it doesn't have research as part of the course! It focuses on clinical issues.

But by far the best thing is the anatomy labs - you get it every week and you have a dissection project of a joint to do with a partner! Very cool.

Website it www.cms.uwa.edu.au - i highly recommend it.

The staff are well known in their fields:
Kevin Singer - research into the spine and contributer to many book chapters including Grieve's Modern Manual Therapy
Peter Fazey - Contributer to Grieve's Modern Manual Therapy and current president of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. He takes you for the clinical / manual therapy side of things and was trained by Bob Elvey (neural mechanosensitivity).
Garry Allison is in his last semester now but his work in the course will continue on - very smart man that one.

Various other people on staff and a good selection of guest lecturers etc. You will do Manual Therapy EVERY afternoon, more than any other course in Australia apparently.

You will cover Mulligans (NAGs, SNAGs, MWMs, PRPs), Mackenzie, Maitland, Monaghan's, MET/SIJ etc. There is no hard and fast philosophy school but a good grounding in everything you need to know to get people better including motor control and rehab.

The bonus is the 12 weeks instead of 2 university semesters.

Kevin Singer is the guy to email - very nice to talk to on the phone as well.

The admission criteria is on the website (www.cms.uwa.edu.au). Have a look and let me know what you think.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask!

BTW, past graduates of the course are now doing some pretty high profile things - e.g. Working for Diane Lee, elite Sydney physiotherapists for sports teams, working alongside surgeons doing research etc.

thank you alophysio for your great information.

its first time to hear about physio cpurse in UWA i thought it doesnt have a physiotherapy courses.

sorry to late reply because i was out city.

i read all information about the course its so geat, i like teaching way, i wil send e-mail for Kevin Singer about admission.

thank you alophysio for your information.

at present i am working at a general hospital of 300 beds in dhaka.but me and my have decided to do post graduation study in a specialised brunch of physiotherapy at your university. neurology or cardio-respiratory are my favourable area. so how can you help me to study at your university? please help me to solve my problems.

Is this about uni of melb or uni of WA??

There is a post-grad course in neurological physiotherapy by Barb Singer.

See course details on www.cms.uwa.edu.au for details.

Good luck