Teaching

The course of study in Physiotherapy provides the scientific basis and theoretical-practical preparation necessary to be qualified to practise as a Physiotherapist. 

The Degree Course in Physiotherapy lasts 3 years and is divided into 6 semesters; the first year is propaedeutic, the second is devoted to the study of pathologies subject to rehabilitation treatment and the Rehabilitation Sciences, and the third is vocational and specialized.

The theoretical and practical training activities carried out in the work context are aimed at the maturation of specific professional skills, but also envisage the acquisition of behavioural skills such as to ensure, at the end of the training course, the full mastery of all the necessary competences and their immediate employability in the work environment.

The learning pathway provides for basic, characterizing and related educational activities; it also provides for further specific professionalizing educational activities such as seminars, internships, partly compulsory, partly freely chosen by the student.

Finally, the learning pathway provides for training activities such as workshops, preparatory to internship activities.

The candidates will be provided with an adequate preparation in the basic disciplines, in order to enable them to better understand the most relevant elements underlying both pathological processes and recovery processes, on which their rehabilitation and/or therapeutic intervention in childhood, adulthood and geriatric age will focus. 

The graduates will be able to treat patients for a large number of pathologies, define their relevant rehabilitation programmes, and identify the most suitable physiotherapy/rehabilitation intervention using not only specific physiotherapy techniques or modalities, but also relational educational components.

The graduates must be proficient in at least one language of the European Union other than Italian, in their specific field of competence and for the exchange of general information, possess, from an evidence-based perspective, the necessary skills to read and critically evaluate published works, to extrapolate useful results for the therapeutic process.

With the increase in the average age of the general population, rehabilitation functions are the subject of pressing demands from the territory and rehabilitation facilities, which allows graduates of this class to find important job opportunities in public and private facilities where they will have the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The students graduated in Physiotherapy will be able to find employment in public or private health and social-welfare facilities, either as an employee or freelance professional. In particular, occupational outlets can be identified in any field where prevention, treatment and rehabilitation interventions are required in the areas of motor, upper cortical and visceral functions resulting from pathological events of various aetiologies, whether congenital or acquired.

The students graduated in Physiotheropy perform their activities in physiotherapy and rehabilitation services within the National and Regional Health Service, private facilities accredited and affiliated with the National Health Service, research institutes, nursing homes, clinics, foundations, rehabilitation facilities and centres, nursing homes, patients' homes, spas and wellness centres, medical and/or multi-specialist surgeries. 

The current regulations allow for freelance activities in individual or associated professional firms, sports associations and clubs of various types, service cooperatives, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and public or private prevention services.