Objectives
GENERAL FIRST-LEVEL OBJECTIVES (GOALS)
In general, the Bachelor's Degreen in Physiotherapy intends to provide students with basic professional skills to apply to their work as physiotherapists, with enough training to describe, identify, treat and compare health issues that can be resolved using physiotherapy techniques, applying a combination of methods, procedures, models, techniques and actions that, through the application of physical therapy, can treat, heal, restore or adapt patients affected by worsening, functional limitations, disabilities, or alterations in their mobility or well-being as a consequence of injuries, diseases or other causes; such physiotherapy techniques will also be applied to promote health and fitness, disease prevention and disease sequelae. Always while considering individuals in their triple dimension, i.e., biological, psychological and social.
GENERAL SECOND-LEVEL OBJECTIVES (GOALS)
Implementing the Tuning Project proposals for all degrees - in the case of the Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy, graduates will acquire the following competencies:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the foundations and history of Physiotherapy as an expert in the subject.
- Communicate the basic knowledge they have acquired in Physiotherapy coherently.
- Be aware of new developments and interpret them in an appropriate context.
- Demonstrate good understanding of the general structure of the Physiotherapy discipline and its sub-disciplines.
- Demonstrate that they understand and can implement a critical-thinking methodology and can develop and apply theories to the disciplinary field of Physiotherapy.
- Apply accurately the methods and techniques used in Physiotherapy.
- Demonstrate that they understand the qualitative research in Physiotherapy.
- Demonstrate that they understand the experimental tests and scientific theories, and their applications in Physiotherapy.
GENERAL THIRD-LEVEL OBJECTIVES (GOALS)
According to the particular professional skills acquired, after completing the degree, graduates will be entitled to:
- Contribute to maintaining the good health, well-being and quality of life of individuals, families, and communities, taking into account their ethical-deontological, political, social, economic, environmental and biological background.
- See, evaluate and re-evaluate patients, collect data, ask for medical tests, carry out and interpret propaedeutic and complementary tests in order to make a kinetic-functional diagnosis and decide the appropriate models, methods, procedures, resources and physiotherapy techniques to apply, with the purpose of treating dysfunctions from a physiotherapeutic perspective, in its full scope and complexity, giving a prognosis, re-evaluating performance and deciding when to give the physiotherapeutic discharge report.
- Apply critical thinking to clinical, research, philosophical, ethical, political, social and cultural issues involved in the variety of professional sectors where physiotherapists are required, demonstrating the appropriate professional skills to intervene in this professional activity.
- Explain and resolve doubts, and guide patients and their families throughout the therapeutic process.
- Refer patients to other experts when required, cooperating with the other healthcare team members.
- Act in emergency situations.
- Give opinions, reports and expert assessment when required.
- Pay attention to the efficiency of physiotherapeutic technical resources, thus guaranteeing their safety, and incorporate new technological advances in Physiotherapy to their activity.
- Keep the data they access while performing their work confidential.
- Plan, organize and manage public or private healthcare services, as well as assess, give advice and audit in the Physiotherapy area.
- Work cooperatively with society, considering the job a form of social involvement and participation.
- Carry out research projects that contribute to generating knowledge in Physiotherapy, and be able to convey this knowledge by the usual means.
- Demonstrate the personal and intellectual autonomy necessary to pursue lifelong professional learning.
Competencies
Competencies are understood to be “the identifiable and assessable set of interconnected knowledge, attitudes, values, abilities and skills, which will allow the student to exercise his/her professional activity according to the requirements and standards used in the corresponding occupational area”.
All University of Almeria degrees explicitly include three types of competencies:
- The generic competencies included in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which establishes the organization of official higher education.
- The generic competencies of the University of Almeria (approved by the Governing Council on 17 July 2008). These are transversal competencies common to all the degrees.
- The specific competencies of the degree. These competencies are detailed in the degree’s report and are related to its particular subjects. Some of these competencies may have been agreed at the Andalusian regional level, or for certain degrees, they may be regulated at the state level.
Basic, General and Cross-Curricular Competencies
The basic competencies for all bachelor’s degrees are defined in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and are aimed at the student acquiring general training in one or more disciplines, oriented towards preparing them to carry out professional activities.
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To possess and understand knowledge |
That students have demonstrated they possess and comprehend knowledge in an area of study that is part of the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported in advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the vanguard of the field of study. |
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Knowledge application (CB2) |
That students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are often demonstrated through developing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study. |
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Ability to make judgements (CB3) |
That students have the ability to collect and interpret the relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgements, including reflections on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. |
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Capacity to communicate and social aptitude (CB4) |
That students are able to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences. |
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Learning skills (CB5) |
That students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy. |
The generic competencies of the University of Almeria, approved by the Governing Council on 17 July 2008, are as follows:
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Basic knowledge of the profession (UAL1) |
Knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable the understanding of new theories, interpretations, methods and techniques within the different disciplinary fields, conducive to the optimal fulfilment of professional requirements. |
| Ability to use ICT (UAL2) | Using Information and Communications Techniques (ICTs) as a tool to express and communicate, to access information sources, as a means of filing data and documents, for presentation tasks, for learning, research and cooperative work. |
| Ability to solve problems (UAL3 | The ability to identify, analyse, and define significant elements that constitute a problem in order to solve it rigorously. |
| Oral and written communication in one's own language (UAL4) | To understand and express ideas, knowledge, problems and solutions clearly and opportunely to a wider, specialized or non-specialized audience (and feelings through words, adapting to the particular situation and audience to gain their understanding and endorsement). |
| The ability to be critical and self-critical (UAL5) |
This is the mental aptitude to question things and be interested in the bases on which ideas, actions and judgements are founded, both one’s own and those of others. |
| Teamwork (UAL6) | To integrate and collaborate actively with other people, areas and organizations to achieve common objectives, in both national and international contexts. |
| Knowledge of a second language (UAL7) | To understand and be understood, both verbally and in writing, using a language other than one's own. |
| Ethical commitment (UAL8) | The ability to think and act on principles of a universal nature that are based on the value of the individual and are directed toward them reaching their full potential. |
| Learning to work autonomously (UAL9) | The ability to design, manage, and execute a task by oneself. |
| Social competence and global citizenship (UAL10) | To respect fundamental rights and equality between men and women, human rights, the values of a peaceful and democratic culture, and environmental and cooperative development principles that promote ethical commitment in a global, intercultural, free and just society. |
Specific competencies
The specific competencies provided by this degree are listed in the degree report.
Information of interest
- Guide