Physiotherapy is a branch of modern medical science
which includes examination, assessment, interpretation, physical diagnosis,
planning and execution of treatment and advice to any person for the purpose of
preventing, correcting, alleviating and limiting dysfunction, acute and chronic
bodily malfunction including life saving measures via chest physiotherapy in
the intensive care unit, curing physical disorders or disability, promoting
physical fitness, facilitating healing and pain relief and treatment of
physical and psychological disorders through modulating psychological and
physical response using physical agents, activities and devices including
exercise, mobilization, manipulations, therapeutic ultrasound, electrical and
thermal agents and electrotherapy for diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
(Definition as per the Maharashtra State Council for Occupational therapy &
Physiotherapy, 2004)
Bachelor in Physiotherapy
(B.P.Th.) is a four and
half year’s undergraduate degree program consisting of four years of coursework
and six months compulsory internship at end.
Here
is the syllabus offered by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS)
Nashik.
Source:
http://www.muhs.ac.in/
First Year B.P.Th.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- Professional practice & Ethics
- BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Human Anatomy
- Human Physiology
- Biochemistry
- PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Fundamentals of Kinesiology & Kinesiotherapy
- Fundamentals of Electrotherapy
- Seminar
- Observational clinical practice
Second Year B.P.Th.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- Professional practice & Ethics
- MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Pathology
- Microbiology
- Pharmacology
- Psychiatry including Psychology
- PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Kinesiology
- Kinesiotherapy
- Electrotherapy
- Seminar
- Supervised clinical practice
Third Year B.P.Th.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- Professional practice & Ethics
- MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Surgery-I
- Surgery-II
- Medicine-I
- Medicine-II
- Community Medicine & Sociology
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Dermatology
- PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Functional Diagnosis & Physiotherapeutic Skills
- Seminar (including I.C.F.)
- Supervised clinical practice
Fourth Year B.P.Th.
- PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- Professional practice & Ethics
- Administration, Management &Marketing
- PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
- Neuro Physiotherapy
- Cardiovascular Respiratory Physiotherapy (Including Critical Care)
- Community Physiotherapy
- Principles of Bio-engineering
- Research Methodology &Biostatistics
- Seminar (including I.C.F.)
- Supervised clinical practice
Internship B.P.Th.
- A period of 6 months (after completion of fourth year of B.P.Th.) of continuous clinical practice to enhance the clinical reasoning, judgment, programme planning, intervention, evaluation of intervention, follow up and referral skills of all the dysfunctions and impairments learnt throughout the curriculum of four years.
Best Regards,
Farzad
Minoo Damania
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