It is advisable for physiotherapy students to have a sound training in subjects relating to health sciences. What is more, they will also need to have a good service attitude towards people and an active personality.

Classes will be almost always be in English. English is indispensable these days and all the more so in the world of health care and the technological industry we are working with, in coordination, in this Bachelor's degree, through the Escola de Noves Tecnologies Interactives, a centre affiliated to the University of Barcelona (ENTI-UB), developing multimedia resources for physiotherapy. This Inter-University Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy brings a further dimension to EUSES’ track record of quality, by enabling students to work in a third vehicular language, giving them the effective tool that language is for their professional development, once their studies have finished, both within and without our borders. Daily communal life with English opens new doors for physiotherapy professionals, giving them a distinctive inside the European market. The curriculum provides for the possibility of taking optional subjects in French, to facilitate our students’ inclusion in the labour market, especially in France and Belgium.

Learning objectives

The general objectives are as follows:

• Generating in students the capacity to value the importance of physiotherapy in the context of health.
• Providing the scientific preparation and appropriate competencies for identifying, describing, comparing and treating changes in health that may respond to physiotherapy.
• Acquiring competences in the joint use of methods, procedures, models, techniques and actions that, through the application of physical agents, manual techniques and therapeutic exercises, among others, prevent, cure and restore persons affected by functional deficiencies, limitations or changes in physical function and health resulting from an injury, illness, accident or any other cause.
• Providing the students a basis to develop habits of excellence and quality in their professional work.
• Instilling in students the interest in incorporating the research into the professional practice in a critical, constructive and creative way.

Access requirements

Upper secondary school education

Access: university entrance examinations (PAU), general stage. Admission: weighting of the subjects examined in the PAU, linked to the branch of knowledge of health sciences.

Higher level training cycles (CFGS).

Access: all CFGS. Admission: weighting of the subjects examined in the PAU, linked to the branch of knowledge of health sciences.

Over 25 years old

Preferential option in successful entrance exam: health sciences

Over 40 years old

Assessment of professional experience relating to the bachelor's degree that the applicant wishes to be admitted to and sufficient interview outcome.

Over 45 years old

Entrance exam passed and favourable interview outcome.

Others

Special types of access recognised under current regulations.

Another information on access

Pre-enrolment code:

91908 (for students who are Spanish nationals or foreign-nationals resident in Spain
91909 for students who do not have Spanish nationality and do not reside in Spain)

Weightings

Weighting parameters of the subjects in the specific phase of the PAU

Work opportunities for Physiotherapy graduates are very diverse thanks to the extensive range of the health professionals’ various areas: treatment of pathologies in medical and surgical specialities; illness-prevention and health-promotion activities, as well as research, teaching and management. It allows freelance professional activity and in the public and private sectors too.

The main employment sectors area: mutual insurances companies, mutual accident-insurance companies, general hospitals, specialist hospitals, rehabilitation centres, primary attention, special-education schools, old-people's residences, primary-care centres, social-health centres, hydrothermal centres, clubs and sports centres, physio-aesthetics, research, teaching and so on.

Moreover, the training on offer provided by ENTI-UB – a pioneering centre in offering the first University Bachelor's Degree in Catalonia in Interactive Digital Contents (Video games and Serious Games)– will enable students to develop professionally in the area of technological application within the field of the Physiotherapy, a potentially innovative area, with an extensive range of development in our society, for combining aspects as important as the health care and new technologies.

The School proposes:

• Quality master's degrees with a highly practical focus and aimed at meeting the needs of the job market.
• Excellent and varied continuing education courses to meet the need for an advanced of level lifelong learning (specialist courses, summer courses, etc.).

Students have to gain a series of credits, as part of their studies, which correspond to internships in companies or institutions relating to the bachelor’s degree they are studying. The teaching load is determined in accordance with the curriculum.

To obtain the degree, students have to complete a bachelor's thesis (TFG) which serves to assess the general skills they have acquired over the course of the degree programme and offers a summary of the skills and knowledge they have acquired. The teaching load of the thesis depends on the curriculum of the degree.

Students can complete part of their degree programme abroad through the Erasmus programme, which enables them to carry on their studies whilst undertaking an international exchange with academic value in a European university.

They also have access to grants for placements at universities in Spain and on other continents, thanks to bilateral agreements, the SICUE programme and the expansion of the Erasmus+ Programme.

Online enrolment is the University of Girona's electronic enrolment system. It is done through the Internet and is available for the most of the studies.