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.
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