Entry requirements

Admission to the course requires that all courses of Term 1 and 2 as well as the clinical placement part (VFU) of the course Physiotherapy III have been approved.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1. plan and carry out physiotherapeutic examinations and treatments from a biopsychosocial perspective in preventive, rehabilitating and habilitating interventions in pediatrics, neurology and geriatrics.
2. evaluate physiotherapeutic assessments and measures from a biopsychosocial and evidence-based perspective in the above areas and demonstrate the ability to identify and motivate their need for further knowledge.
3. apply a risk preventive, patient safe and ergonomic working method.
4. apply laws, statutes and guidelines governing health care, rehabilitation, housing and service as well as document and communicate physiotherapy measures.
5. interact with families and representatives from other professional groups (teams) in health care/school/welfare.
6. use strategies to address people who have cognitive, emotional or behavioral problems.
7. use different communication strategies in conversations and meetings with people with communication difficulties.
8. analyse own attitudes and values regarding view of human life and ethical questions in health care.
9. be able to describe how violence against the disabled can be identified
10. reflect on global issues related to rehabilitation and habilitation.
11. reflect on how attitudes to and conceptions of biological sex and gender affect patients and health-care professionals.
12. discuss human rights with other professions.
13. reflect on attitude and treatment from a human rights perspective.

Content

• Methods for examination of disabilities and activity limitations in pediatrics, neurology and geriatrics.
• Methods for treatment of disabilities and activity limitations in pediatrics, neurology, geriatrics.
• Risk prevention measures including fall prevention.
• Collaboration in healthcare and care; teamwork.
• Responding to cognitive, emotional and/or behavioral problems.
• Communication strategies.
• Ethical dilemmas.
• Violence in close relationships in connection with disability.
• Global health.
• Gender knowledge.
• Interprofessional learning - human rights.

Instruction

The course is given in the form of lectures, practical exercises, seminars, group assignments and clinical placement.

The contents of lectures may constitute a basis for examination also in those cases when attendance is not compulsory.

Assessment

Passing the course requires:

• Active participation in seminars (assesses outcome 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13).
• Passed written examination (assesses outocome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  6, 7, 10, 11).
• Passed oral/practical examination (assesses outcome 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7).
• Passed written clinical placement reports (assesses outcome 1, 2, 4, 8).
• Passed clinical placement (assesses outcome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

Students who have failed the examination have the right to undergo renewed examination further 4 times (=totalt 5 the examination occasions). If special circumstances apply, the programme committee can admit additional examination. Each time the student participates in an examination is counted as one examination attempt. Submission of a so-called blank exam is counted as an examination attempt. Maximum one re-examination occasion is organised each semester. The student has right to request a change of examiner after two failed examinations.

Students who fail their practical placement (VFU) have the right to repeat it once (= a total of 2 occasions). If there are special reasons, the program committee may allow another opportunity.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.