Program Overview

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Introduction

Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession which sees human movement as central to the health and wellbeing of individuals of all ages. The physiotherapists’ expertise helps to identify and maximise movement potential through health promotion, preventive healthcare, and specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation.

Why study Physiotherapy at Suffolk?

Approximately

31 weeks of placement

embedded throughout the physiotherapy programme, with placement experiences in year 1, 2 and 3 of the programme ensuring you meet the 1,000 clinical practice hours you need to qualify

Innovative new physiotherapy curriculum

fit for the modern, entrepreneurial physiotherapist – encompassing the core areas of cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, neuroscience and physiotherapeutic skills as well as more specialist topics

Delivered by a team of lecturer-practitioner staff who are all experts in their chosen clinical fields of physiotherapy practice

Small

class sizes

Learn

one topic at a time

in The University of Suffolk’s

block** approach to learning and teaching

New Health and Wellbeing Quarter

with newly refurbished teaching space and equipment, two physiotherapy practical labs, ward-based teaching labs & simulation suites,

onsite physiotherapy clinic

run by a local physiotherapy provider

NHS Learning Support Fund -

Students on an undergraduate pre-registration Physiotherapy course can apply to the NHS Learning Support Fund – see if you are eligible for additional training grants.

Our course has excellent links with our practice placement colleagues who work in a wide variety of clinical settings including the NHS, private practice, independent and charitable providers.

During both university-based teaching and practice placement you will have the opportunity to work and study interprofessionally with other health and social care students. Our course has a strong focus on professional and lifelong learning skills, evidence informed physiotherapy practice and research skills.

**Block Learning at the University of Suffolk

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Rather than learning multiple modules at the same time during one semester, block learning means you learn content for one module at a time, then complete your assessment before moving on to the next module.  Learning is condensed into shorter blocks, for example, block/module one could be 5 weeks duration containing 4 weeks of taught content and then your assessment comes in week 5, then that’s your module complete and you move on to module 2 in block 2.  Therefore, learning is completed in small, concentrated blocks, in series, enabling early feedback on performance.

Find out more about the university’s Block and Blend approach.