Evidence-Based Health Care
This course provides students with the opportunity to become critical and educated consumers of research. Students learn to critically evaluate the quality of published and unpublished literature using structured methods. They are taught how to use library databases and the internet to search for literature and this provides them with the confidence to evaluate the strength of the evidence in clinical topics and how to present this in a logical form. This course introduces the concepts of evidence-based practice and teaches students to undertake systematic and exhaustive searching, critical synthesis of the evidence, and make recommendations based on the synthesized evidence. Students are required to complete a full systematic review and present their reviews in a colloquium.
Biomechanics and Motor Control
This course allows the student to explain the concepts of motor control and motor learning, based on an analysis of human movement. Students learn how a movement happens what factors affect it. It involves an analysis of tasks related to daily activities, exercise, sports, and occupation that are commonly affected in patients seen in physical therapy.
Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis in Physical Therapy
This course provides an opportunity for the student to apply clinical reasoning given an orthopedic, neurologic, and pediatric case. This course enables the student to decide which assessment or evaluation procedure, both subjectively and objectively, should be used in order to comprehensively come up with a physical therapy diagnosis/impression, problem list, and physical therapy goals.
Educational Strategies for Health Professionals
This course prepares health professionals to be better educators of learners in various settings, including students, patients, clients, family and caregivers, colleagues, and other health professionals, through an in-depth understanding of teaching-learning principles and the application thereof to instruction in different practice settings. Focus is on instructional planning, teaching, and evaluation of learning for audiences in different practice settings.
Leadership and Management
This course is the study of the management of academic organizations, rehabilitation centers, or units in hospitals, community centers, and public health agencies. Emphasis is on methods of application of managerial functions including health program planning, evaluation and health policy formulation.
Clinical Practice 1 (OrthopedicPhysical Therapy)
This course provides students with the opportunity to acquire skills in using different manual therapy treatment such as Maitland, McKenzie, Mulligan and Neurodynamics. Students will also be able to make a clinical impression by correctly reading and interpreting X-ray, CT, MRI, MSUS and EMG findings of common musculoskeletal conditions. Additionally, the course provides students with the opportunity to understand different surgical procedures and evidence-based guidelines used in the treatment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions.
Clinical Practice 2 (NeurologicPhysical Therapy)
This course provides students with the opportunity to become a critical Physical Therapist. Students learn to make a sound clinical judgment in the assessment and management of Neurologic and Paediatric conditions. They are taught how to apply in clinical practice.
This course introduces the concepts of assessment and sound decision making in Neurologic and Paediatric conditions. Students are required to present case analysis both in written and oral aspects in relation to the assessment and intervention plan.
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