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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:5 / 7.5
Course supervisor:Daina Šmite
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Rehabilitation
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine

Objective

To develop the ability to develop and create a standardized assessment protocols and to promote their use in physiotherapy practice, based on context assessment, analysis of experience, as well as bringing creative and innovative ideas to improve the quality of physiotherapy services.

Prerequisites

Knowledge and skills acquired to obtain a qualification as a physiotherapist and a bachelor's degree in health care

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Describes the elements of standardized assessment in physiotherapy practice. Describes various guidelines of professional organizations of physiotherapists on assessment and documentation standards. Describes binding current legislation in the context of patient data documentation and managment.

Skills

Summarizes assessment tools relevant to a scope of physiotherapy practice.
Compares and evaluates various assessment tools depending on time consumption, cost, sensitivity and specificity, changes over time, etc., linking to the ICF frame and the context of physiotherapy practice.
Analyzes the ways of application and specifics considerations in different assessment and documentation tools.

Competence

Creates and develops appropriate assessment protocols and promotes their use in physiotherapy practice, based on context assessment, experience analysis, as well as bringing creative and innovative ideas to improve the quality of physiotherapy services.

Study course planning

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