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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
The aim of study program is to prepare a highly qualified physiotherapist who, individually or in collaboration with the rehabilitation team will provide health care services including personal and functional physical examination, assessment, treatment using movement, natural and physical factors, disability compensation, health care, prevention, health promotion and education.
Learning outcomes:
isseminate and apply general and subject-specific knowledge of physiotherapy covering the professional cooperation and communication, the principles of applied research and ethics, and the methods for the patient/client testing, assessing and treatment, following the International Classification of Function (ICF).
Plan, carry out and disseminate practice-oriented empirical physiotherapy research, to solve the problems of rehabilitation through expanding one's own professional activities and implementing health care and rehabilitation innovations.
Plan and implement goal-oriented physiotherapy examination and assessment, be aware of potential dangerous pathologies and formulate the physiotherapy diagnosis and prognosis.
Demonstrate appropriate decision-making skills - to assess when the physiotherapist's competence is sufficient to treat the patient and when the patient should be sent to another healthcare professional.
Make an individual physiotherapy plan based on physiotherapy diagnosis, considering the patient's/client's (a group, community) needs.
Base practice on evidence, best practices and recommendations, systematically, systematically and individually perform physiotherapy procedures and critically assess their effects.
Supplement, accumulate and analyse professional documentation considering ethical, deontological and legal principles.
Analyse, demonstrate clinical reasoning skills and reflective practice through cooperation with patients/clients and/their family members.
In practical activities to observe the principles of equal opportunities, diversity awareness, professional responsibility and mutual trust in a physiotherapist-patient/client relationship.
Foster healthy lifestyles, apply health protection measures and carry out preventive activities patient/client relationship.
Demonstrate social responsibility when strengthening the image of the profession of physiotherapy and educating a patient/client to take responsibility for his/her own health.
Communicate and cooperate with colleagues, patients/clients, groups and a community verbally and in a written form, when considering the principles of ethics and citizenship.
Critically assess a personal professional practice, take care of professional self-improvement, develop job-oriented qualities and perform one's job professionally, observing the principles of critical thinking and life-long learning.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Cumulative assessment.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Psychology; Health Law; Pharmacology; Methodology of Applied Research and Statistics; Anatomy and Physiology; General and Clinical Pathology; Basics of Rehabilitations and Bioethics; Kinesiology, Biomechanics; Preventive Physiotherapy and Health Education; Physiotherapy Assessment; Physical Agents; Nutrition and Physical Activity; Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases; Physiotherapy in Neurology; Physiotherapy in Pediatrics; Physiotherapy and Women Health; Physiotherapy in Surgery; Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Ortopedics; Physiotherapy for Elderly; Community and Sports Physiotherapy; Physiotherapy Techniques; Manipulative (massage) Techniques; Physiotherapy Business Management and Administration. Professional Bachelor's Thesis; Cognitive Practice; Practice of Physiotherapy Assessment; Practice of Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases and Surgery; Practice of Physiotherapy Traumatology and Orthopedic; Practice of Physiotherapy in Neurology and Geriatric; Practice of Physiotherapy in Pediatrics; Final Practice.
Optional courses:
Students choose from a college (Vilniaus kolegija) list of optional subjects.
Distinctive features of a study programme:
The clinical practice hours (49 ECTS, 1320 hours) in the curriculum are comparable to most European countries and WCPT recommendations (1000 hours).
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
The qualification entitles to work as a physiotherapist in personal health care institutions, rehabilitation centres, social care institutions, the sports and wellness sector, or as an individual.
Access to further study:
Graduates can continue their studies at the universities in the European Union and other countries to further their knowledge at master's and doctoral level (in Lithuania – after completing a bridge courses).
