FYB2500 Rehabilitation in physiotherapy I Course description

This course provides students with essential competencies for adapting, implementing, and evaluating rehabilitation interventions for musculoskeletal injuries, diseases and disorders, pain conditions, mental health challenges, rheumatic diseases, various forms of cancer, and postoperative conditions. The course also addresses complex and multifactorial health challenges. It includes patient case studies, clinical reasoning, and the acquisition and application of evidence-based knowledge. Students will gain experience in communicating and discussing professional issues.

The student can only remain with one failed course from the first year of the study

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

Knowledge

The student can:

• describe risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries, disorders and conditions, rheumatic diseases, cancer, and mental health challenges
• describe rehabilitation interventions and prognosis for musculoskeletal injuries, disorders and conditions, rheumatic diseases, cancer, and mental health challenges
• explain different understandings of pain and pain mechanisms

Skills

The student can:

• justify the choice of examination methods and standardized assessment tools for users and patients with musculoskeletal injuries, disorders and conditions, rheumatic diseases, cancer, and mental health challenges
• propose and justify rehabilitation interventions for users and patients with musculoskeletal injuries, disorders and conditions, rheumatic diseases, cancer, and mental health challenges
• apply knowledge of coping strategies based on patient case studies
• apply methods for evidence-based practice based on patient case studies

General Competence

The student can:

• discuss professional, ethical, and societal issues related to musculoskeletal injuries, disorders and conditions, rheumatic diseases, cancer, and mental health challenges
• reflect on health challenges that may arise from chronic conditions or serious illness, and the potential implications for the role of the therapist

The course includes lectures, seminars, group work, skills training, and self-study.

In order to be permitted to sit the exam, the following must have been approved:

• a minimum of 80 per cent attendance in teaching activities marked as “mandatory attendance” in the schedule
• an individual subject note, 700 words (+/- 10 %). The assignment is subject to academic evaluation

Individual oral exam, up to 25 minutes.

No aids permitted.

Letter grades A–F.

All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. If selecting answers for external evaluation, the external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

15 credits overlap with FYB2200 Physiotherapy for Health Conditions II.