Physiotherapy

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Start date: September 2024

Deadlines for on-time applications

2024 entry application deadlines

For courses starting in 2024 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.

16 October 2023 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.

31 January 2024 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.

Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/admissions-tests

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All applications received after 30 June are entered into Clearing - find out more about Clearing at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/clearing-and-results-day/what-clearing

Overview
Training you for success as a modern, proficient, up-to-date and research-informed physiotherapist.

Summary
Are you willing to put patients first in everything you do, and treat all with respect, dignity & compassion? Are you aware that physiotherapists work in all areas of health (e.g. elderly care, intensive care, respiratory care, stroke care, mental health & orthopaedics) not just in musculoskeletal/sports injuries? Do you realise that, for the safety of their patients, all physiotherapy students are required to be vaccinated and to pass both a medical and an enhanced criminal record check? Do you appreciate that physiotherapy students are expected to act in the role of patients for their classmates during practical classes, and that this sometimes means being appropriately dressed for that activity? Are you prepared to put in a lot of work (20+ in-class hours in Year 1, plus plenty of home study)?... If so, this may be the course for you.

We will train you to cope with virtually all situations that physiotherapists meet professionally. We will also focus on your academic development, aiming to leave you able to: identify problems that need solving, seek out related information and critically appraise its value, come up with recommendations for tackling the initial problem, and produce a report/presentation with which to transmit your recommendations to an audience.

About
Comments from academic peers from other universities include:

"The programme compares highly favourably with similar programmes that I am familiar with at other institutions."

"A highly contemporary professional course that more than meets the requirements of academic and professional regulatory bodies."

"The performance both from an academic and clinical perspective across each student group is reflective of an outstanding level of student support."

"Students are producing a very high standard of work across all three levels."

"I was particularly impressed with some of the writing skills of students in their second year. Written assignments tend to be reduced in courses these days and this may impact on the dissertation in Year 3."

"Feedback to the students was detailed."

"The integration of contemporary policy and professional issues, clearly linked to employment and employability contributes to keeping the programme content highly relevant."

"Quite rightly a very highly regarded pre-registration programme in the UK."

Here is a guide to the subjects studied on this course.

Courses are continually reviewed to take advantage of new teaching approaches and developments in research, industry and the professions. Please be aware that modules may change for your year of entry. The exact modules available and their order may vary depending on course updates, staff availability, timetabling and student demand. Please contact the course team for the most up to date module list.

Year 1
Cardiorespiratory 1
Development of the physiotherapist as a professional and Professional practice placement 1
Fundamentals of Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of Conditions
Structure Function and Assessment
Knowledge and Skills for Personal & Professional Development

Year 2
Health Science Research
Neurological Rehabilitation
Professional Practice Placement 2
Neurorehabilitation 2
Musculoskeletal Assessment & Management: Peripheral
Musculoskeletal assessment and management: Spinal

Year 3
Research Project
The Person with Complex Needs including Professional practice placement 3
Professional Practice Placement 5
Cardiorespiratory 2
Professional Development and Employability

Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module. Assessment can be a combination of examination and coursework but may also be only one of these methods. Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes. You can expect to receive timely feedback on all coursework assessments. This feedback may be issued individually and/or issued to the group and you will be encouraged to act on this feedback for your own development.

Coursework can take many forms, for example: essay, report, seminar paper, test, presentation, dissertation, design, artefacts, portfolio, journal, group work. The precise form and combination of assessment will depend on the course you apply for and the module. Details will be made available in advance through induction, the course handbook, the module specification, the assessment timetable and the assessment brief. The details are subject to change from year to year for quality or enhancement reasons. You will be consulted about any significant changes.

Normally, a module will have 4 learning outcomes, and no more than 2 items of assessment. An item of assessment can comprise more than one task. The notional workload and the equivalence across types of assessment is standardised. The module pass mark for undergraduate courses is 40%. The module pass mark for postgraduate courses is 50%.

Professional recognition
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
Endorsed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).

Health and Care Professions Council, the (HCPC)
Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for the purpose of providing eligibility to apply for registration with the HCPC as a physiotherapist.

Work placement / study abroad
Work placements are integral to this course. All students have to complete at least 1,000 hours of clinical practice. There are five 6-week placements. The first of these is split into one week of observation (in January of Year 1) and five weeks of hands-on placement (in June-July at the end of Year 1). Please note that students can be placed throughout NI for placement.

Most placements occur in Northern Ireland. It might be possible for one placement to occur outside Northern Ireland.

Ulster University,
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Londonderry
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