MAPFY4400 Psychomotor Physiotherapy - Individual and Society Course description

Language of instruction: Norwegian

This course aims to enable the students to acquire specialised practical competence in the field of psychomotor physiotherapy. The trends in society are characterised by increasing ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, and an increase in illness and physical complaints among adolescents. This course therefore has a focus on topics such as identity, language and culture and relates these to the body and various physical complaints. Practical training period 2 is completed during this course.

The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences - Specialisation in Psychomotor Physiotherapy and hold Norwegian authorisation as a physiotherapist.The student must have passed the courses MAPFY4100 and MAPFY4200.

It is assumed that the student has access to a practical training establishment/own place of work where psychomotor physiotherapy treatments are performed on patients.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence: 

Knowledge 

The student

• can interpret physical reactions to major life events   
• can analyse clinical problems from a cultural perspective
• can discuss the relationship between identity, culture and health  
• can discuss the relationship between adolescents, identity, the body and health

Skills 

The student

• can assess and adapt psychomotor physiotherapy to patients of different ages and from different cultural backgrounds
• can apply psychomotor physiotherapy to patients going through major life events
• can communicate independent assessments as part of interdisciplinary cooperation on treatment and assessments relating to social security/national insurance schemes 

General competence   

The student  

• can contribute to improving the quality of today’s health services
• can contribute in interprofessional cooperation concerning patients from different cultural backgrounds
• can analytically reflect on the patient’s participation in interprofessional cooperation
• can analyse and assess professional and ethical aspects of their own professional practice

Work and teaching methods vary between lectures, digital teaching sessions in the form of flipped classroom, supervised skills training and student-active learning methods in the form of group work, seminars and presentations. The course is session-based.

The students will perform psychomotor physiotherapy on patients at their own place of work/practical training establishment.

The last part of practical training period 2 is taken and concluded in this course.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the examination:

Coursework requirements for examination part 1:

• completed a minimum of 52 hours of group supervision. Practical training periods 1 and 2 comprise 72 hours in all.
• completed a minimum of 120 patient treatments, and, in all, a minimum of 200 patient treatments 
• individual patient journal in accordance with specified criteria

 Coursework requirements that must be approved by the lecturer:

• a minimum of 80% attendance in skills training and scheduled seminars and group work, and group supervision
• an oral presentation in the seminar group

Combined assessment:

Part 1) Assessment of practical training.

Part 2) A practical and oral examination is taken in the fourth semester over two days:

• Day 1: Examination and assessment of patient, write a patient journal
• Day 2: Submission of the journal  and demonstration of treatment performed on the patient who was examined the previous day

The student must pass part 1 to be able to take part 2.

Part 1) Not relevant

Part 2) All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Part 1) Pass/fail

Part 2) Pass/fail

Part 1: The midway and final assessments are made by the practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

Part 2: All examination papers are assessed by two examiners. A minimum of 30% of the examination papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all students.

The course overlaps by 5 ECTS credits with PSYFY6300 in the topic clinical practice, and by 5 ECTS credits with PSYFY6300 in the topic culture and identity.