Physiotherapy

Master of Physiotherapy (Graduate-Entry Master's Program)

Course Director

Dr Colleen Canning T +61 2 9351 9263

Student Liaison Academic

Ms Angela Stark T +61 2 9351 9549

Course aims

The principal aims of the course are to:

• produce a body of graduates with the academic and clinical skills to be registered as beginning practitioner physiotherapists in NSW
• encourage the undertaking of research within the profession.

The course is accredited with the Australian Physiotherapy Council. Graduates of the program are eligible to apply for registration as physiotherapists with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia. All graduates must meet the requirements of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia, including the English language skills requirements. These requirements at time of writing are a minimum of seven (in all four bands) in the IELTS test to qualify if they did not complete their secondary studies in English in one of the approved countries. Please refer to:
http://www.physiotherapyboard.gov.au/Registration-Standards.aspx for up to date information concerning English proficiency requirements for registration eligibility.

Admission requirements

The following undergraduate degrees are currently recognised by the University of Sydney as meeting the pre-existing knowledge criteria:

1. Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise and Sports Science) from the University of Sydney
2. Bachelor of Exercise Science and Rehabilitation from the University of Wollongong
3. Bachelor of Science (Health and Exercise Science) from the University of New South Wales
4. Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science from the Australian Catholic University (NSW, ACT, VIC campuses)
5. Bachelor of Health Sciences Health Care Stream from the University of Sydney
6. Bachelor of Health Sciences with a Movement Science major from the University of Sydney
7. Bachelor of Science (Health and Sports Science) from the University of New South Wales: including NEUR3101 Muscle and Motor Control (or its equivalent)
8. Bachelor of Exercise Science from Australian Catholic University, Sydney Campus: including EXSC330 Advanced Motor Control and Learning (or its equivalent)
9. Bachelor of Applied Science (Sport and Exercise Science) from the University of Western Sydney: including 400166 Clinical Neurosciences (or its equivalent)
10. Bachelor of Health Science (Sport and Exercise Science) from the University of Western Sydney: including 400964.1 Clinical Neurosciences (or its equivalent)
11. Bachelor of Science (majoring in Exercise Science) from the University of Wollongong incuding the elective SHS320 Motor Control and Dysfunction or SHS311 Fundamentals of Neuroscience (or their equivalents)
12. Bachelor of Human Movement from the University of Technology Sydney: including elective 91706 Neuroscience (or its equivalent)
13. Bachelor of Management in Sport and Exercise from the University of Technology Sydney including the elective 91706 Neuroscience (or its equivalent) and 91429 Physiological Bases of Human Movement (or its equivalent).

Applicants with a degree from the above list are only required to submit their application to UAC. Visit www.uac.edu.au/.

Clinical education

For information on clinical education visit:
sydney.edu.au/health_sciences/clinical/

Course outline

This course enables students with selected previous degrees to undertake study in physiotherapy taking into account their previous knowledge and skills. This course will require the completion of 96 credit points. The course is structured around four academic blocks. The course outline for the graduate entry master's program is presented in Table 16.1. See Chapter 20 for unit descriptions of study and a list of faculty and research electives.

Table 16.1: Master of Physiotherapy (Graduate Entry Master's Program)

Course rules