Ateneo - UPO

-Physiotherapist: key concepts
- Core curriculum & Core competence
- Health: definition and key concepts
- Diagnosis in physiotherapy and clinical reasoning
- Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
- Manual handling of load

- Tidy's
- Herbert "Practical Evidence-Based physiotherapy"

-To acquire skills and competence of the physiotherapist
-To acquire key concepts about the professional role
-To introduce the framework of the physiotherapy activity
-To prepare the student towards the clinical practice

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Lessons with PowerPoint presentations
Practical sessions

Written examination made of 20 items with multiple choices.

Professional profile & code of ethics
Core curriculum & core competence
National and international education framework
Continuous Medical Education (CME) system
What is health and its interpretation
From the biomedical to biopsychosocial framework
Diagnosis in physiotherapy
Clinical Reasoning
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Research methodology
Physiotherapy associations and professional order
Scientific societies and the Gelli-Bianco law
Manual Handling of loads

To have a professional language sufficient to begin the clinical training
To know the essential issues about normative, ethics and education
To know the key concepts about evidence-based practice and moving them to clinical practice
To acquire skills in the manual handling of loads (i.e. moving a patient from bed to a chair,...)