Master of Physiotherapy
Master of Physiotherapy
The Master of Physiotherapy will give you the qualifications and skills you need to become a practicing physiotherapist. Developed in collaboration with health professionals, industry leaders and professional bodies, this course will equip you with the future facing capabilities required to adapt and respond to rapidly occurring changes in health,…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Master of Physiotherapy will give you the qualifications and skills you need to become a practicing physiotherapist. Developed in collaboration with health professionals, industry leaders and professional bodies, this course will equip you with the future facing capabilities required to adapt and respond to rapidly occurring changes in health, and the health system.
Through problem-based and practical learning experiences, this course will introduce you to a range of health care settings that have widespread community health impact. You will be challenged to reflect your yourself to consider how your values and strengths influence your practice as an emerging physiotherapist.
You will participate in community-based projects and authentic experiential learning activities to develop and apply lean and system thinking skills to learn how to respond to complex health care problems. These are distinctive areas of professional development that will build your capacity for work readiness, ensuring client-centred, quality and safe health care across diverse service delivery settings experienced in regional, rural and metropolitan landscapes.
Graduates of the Master of Physiotherapy complete the degree equipped with the theoretical and practical skills required by for their future career as a registered Physiotherapist.
Course objectives
The Master of Physiotherapy is designed to set up a new generation of agile health professionals, with capability in leadership and future-focused health care.
With many graduate job opportunities currently available and anticipated to grow, our objective is to prepare students to be leaders in current and emerging jobs, by forging relationships with communities, mentors and health and social care facilities to apply their skills across healthcare sectors.
In preparing for modern practice, students will be digitally equipped, and have the right mindset to become leaders of future health care improvements across private and public practice settings as they develop in their career.
Learning Outcomes
1 Apply core values of physiotherapy using a high level of professionalism to make legal, ethical and socially responsible decisions in healthcare practice.
2 Identify and apply key theoretical, conceptual and practice approaches to safe quality physiotherapy practice.
3 Communicate effectively with clients, families, significant others and referrers to meet desired health and physiotherapeutic needs in a culturally sensitive and collaborative manner.
4 Apply sound evidence based clinical reasoning in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of clients to improve function, health and wellbeing.
5 Demonstrate agility and a commitment to ongoing professional development using life-long learning, critical reflective practice, and self-directed learning in physiotherapy practice for working in complex and changing health care environments.
6 Function as leaders and change agents for improving public health and actively driving system reform through, inquiry, innovation and translational research.
Career outcomes:
Our Master of Physiotherapy will provide you with qualifications that can lead to various job opportunities in Tasmania, Australia and overseas.
As a physiotherapist, you can work across a range of different industries including;
- Aged Care
- Cardiothoracic
- Emergency
- Government sector
- Musculoskeletal
- Neurological
- Oncology
- Paediatrics
- Private Industry
- Sports health
- Women’s health
REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must have completed a Bachelor or Master degree (other than Physiotherapy) from an Australian university or equivalent in the last 10 years, having completed the equivalent of:
two units (25 credit points) of human physiology, ideally including exercise physiology
two units (25 credit points) of human anatomy, including detailed musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory and neurological anatomy
one unit (12.5 credit points) of study in psychology, and
one unit (12.5 credit points) of study in research methods and/or evidence-based practice.
Bachelor degree in study fields such as exercise science, biomedical or other health science is recommended.
English Language Requirements
IELTS Academic minimum score of 6.5 overall and a minimum score of 6.5 in each individual band
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Tasmania was officially founded on 1st January 1890 and is located at Sandy Bay, Tasmania. In addition to the main campus at Sandy Bay, it also operates out of the Newnham Campus and the Cradle Coast Campus. The most popular courses offered are the environmental studies that include wilderness management, marine sciences and indigenous studies in Tasmanian literature. Other unconventional courses include agriculture development, studies on the community and population and ocean study programs. The university also comprises of a Music Conservatorium, Art school and a School of Clinical studies.
