- UAB University Master's Degree
- Credits: 60 ECTS
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Course begins on 26/09/2024
Course ends on 28/06/2025 -
Beginning of the pre-enrolment period 08/04/2024
See the calendar - Pre-registration period: Open
- Places: 30 places
- Price: €6.940,20 (2023/2024 academic year)
- Language: Spanish (42%), English (20%), French (18%), Catalan (20%).
- Mode: classroom-based learning
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Teaching centre:
"Gimbernat" School of Nursing and Physiotherapy (affiliated school)
Advances in physiotherapy techniques and the incorporation of new concepts in all the areas it involves (scientific, behavioural, new technologies, etc.) imply a need for the constant renewal of knowledge and skills.
This is made difficult by the lack of specifically regulated training in Physiotherapy of the Thorax in this country, training that is needed in order to come into line with the other European Union countries, where there is a long tradition of cardio-respiratory physiotherapists in medical teams.
These are the reasons that have led the EUIF Gimbernat and the UAB to create this master's degree in Physiotherapy of the Thorax.
This advanced programme in cardio-respiratory physiotherapy aims to provide our healthcare system with physiotherapists who can effectively meet therapy and prevention needs in all areas of healthcare: in both adult care and pediatrics, in hospitals and in primary care, from intensive care to home care, and who are also trained in the methodology of evidence-based clinical practice.
Career options
Career options for graduates of this master's degree lie in:- the healthcare sector: both public and private and in hospitals, primary and specialist care centres, social and health care, home-based care and private practice;
- the social services: care homes for the elderly, day centres, centres for the physically or mentally handicapped, special education schools, associations of cardio-respiratory patients;
- teaching: mainly in university schools of physiotherapy, education in the media, public health programmes, professional associations, and patients' associations;
- research: joining existing interdisciplinary teams;
- possibly, the centres abroad where students carry out their work placements.
Work placements
Tutor-guided placements in healthcare contexts are fundamental to developing professional competences, as they help to integrate knowledge of theory with the necessary skills and attitudes. EUIF Gimbernat, the promoter of this master's degree, has collaboration agreements in place with a broad network of partner centres, where the students can carry out these placements under the guidance of the external placements coordinator and the physiotherapy tutors, who are selected on the basis of their experience in the cardio-respiratory field.
These placements have a student workload of 12 ECTS (200 in-class hours) and may be undertaken at home or abroad in centres that practise physiotherapy of the thorax in all its forms: intensive care, hospital admission, pulmonology, thoracic surgery, cardiac surgery, upper abdominal surgery, bariatric surgery, laryngeal surgery, transplants, major burns, spinal cord injuries, children's units, outpatient treatment, pulmonary rehabilitation units, sleep disorder units, training programmes for cardiac patients, home-based non-invasive ventilation, neuromuscular patient care, etc. These placements are classified as compulsory.
Coordinator university:
Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaAdditional information
https://www.eug.es/estudios/master-oficial-en-fisioterapia-del-torax/
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