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:

Knowledge and understanding

• motivate and explain physiotherapeutic measures from a biopsychosocial perspective in preventive, rehabilitative and habilitative interventions, in pediatrics, neurology and geriatrics

Skills and abilities

• plan and implement physiotherapeutic measures from a biopsychosocial perspective in preventive, rehabilitative and habilitative interventions, in pediatrics, neurology and geriatrics
• apply a risk-preventive, patient-safe and ergonomic approach
• apply laws, ordinances and guidelines that govern health care, rehabilitation, housing and services, and document and communicate physiotherapy measures
• collaborate with relatives and representatives from other professional groups (teams) in healthcare/school/social care
• use strategies to respond to people who have cognitive, emotional and/or behavioral problems
• use different communication strategies in conversations and meetings with people with communicative difficulties
• discuss human rights together with other professions 

Judgement and approach

• evaluate physiotherapeutic measures from a biopsychosocial and evidence-based perspective in the above areas, and demonstrate the ability to identify and justify their need for further knowledge
• analyze their own attitudes and values regarding ethical dilemmas in health care
• reflect on how violence against people with disabilities can be identified
• reflect on global issues concerning rehabilitation and habilitation
• reflect on treatment 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.
• 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:

• Passed mandatory components such as seminars, workshops and reports
• Passed written examination
• Passed oral/practical examination
• Passed VFU

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.