MAPFY4100 Psychomotor Physiotherapy - Examination and Treatment Course description

Language of instruction: Norwegian

The purpose of this course is to enable students to perform examination and professional assessments in accordance with the principles of psychomotor physiotherapy. The examination form the basis of the physiotherapist's understanding of the body as a functional, interacting whole. This entails assessing physical complaints and symptoms in light of muscle tensions and mobility in the whole body, as well as the patient’s history and present situation. The course provides a theoretical and practical basis for psychomotor physiotherapy. Practical training period 1 is started 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.

It is assumed that the student has access to a practical training establishment/own place of work where they can perform psychomotor physiotherapy treatments 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 describe and discuss the principles of psychomotor physical examinations
• can interpret findings from the examination in light of the patient’s history and relevant literature (clinical reasoning)
• can discuss aspects of clinical reasoning
• can assess relevant treatments
• can discuss different understandings of the body

Skills

The student

• can perform a physical examination in accordance with the principles of psychomotor physiotherapy and make professional assessments of the patient’s problem
• can investigate the significance of complaints and symptoms for each individual patient
• can explore perform come up with come up with and perform relevant treatment measures in interaction with the patient

General competence

The student

• can analyse and assess complex clinical problems and make clinical decisions about treatment
• can communicate independent professional assessments of examination results and treatment processes based on the principles of psychomotor physiotherapy

Work and teaching methods vary between lectures, flipped classroom, supervised skills training and student-active learning methods in the form of group work, seminars and presentations.

The students will perform psychomotor physiotherapy on patients at their own place of work/practical training establishment. The course is session-based.

Privacy by Design is a fundamental requirement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for all systems operating on personal information. This course provides an introduction to privacy and data protection including the legislation such as the GDPR, privacy enhancing technologies, privacy management, designing for privacy, and privacy patterns in software design. It enables the students to understand regulation, to identify privacy risk and consequences of data breaches, introduces them to privacy controls and builds skills in their application in a structured privacy engineering process.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course the student has:

• knowledge of basic legal privacy concepts and data protection regulations and will be able to apply them in systems analysis and design
• knowledge of concepts of privacy by design and privacy impact assessment and the ability to compare different assessment methods
• applicable knowledge of principles of architectural tactics for privacy and privacy patterns.

Skills

On successful completion of this course the student can:

• map legal privacy principles to technical privacy concepts
• design and plan solutions that map security and privacy goals to mitigation mechanisms and technologies
• apply privacy by design and analyze software architectures using privacy impact assessments

• apply appropriate architectural tactics for privacy and privacy patterns in order to derive and create solutions that mitigate privacy risks

General competence

On successful completion of this course the student can:

• explain and apply their knowledge of security and privacy enhancing technologies

• Online course material for preparatory reading (flipped classroom approach)
• Bi-weekly lecture and case discussions
• Bi-weekly presentations of student home assignment cases

All answers are assessed by two examiners.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

Individual written digital exam, 3 hours. The exam result can be appealed.

New/postponed exam: In case of failed exam or legal absence, the student may apply for a new or postponed exam. New or postponed exams are offered within a reasonable time span following the regular exam. The student is responsible for registering for a new/postponed exam within the time limits set by OsloMet. The Regulations for new or postponed examinations are available in Regulations relating to studies and examinations at OsloMet.