What is the Duration?
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Duration : 4 ½ yrs
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Highlights : The course curriculum includes 6 months internship period.
What is a physiotherapist?
Physiotherapists are highly skilled, and autonomous health professionals who provide safe, quality client-centred physiotherapy through a commitment to service availability, accessibility and excellence. The profession is shaped by scientific evidence and the education and competencies of the physiotherapists delivering the services. Physiotherapy is grounded in the belief that, to be effective, its services must respond to the changing needs of populations and our health system.
Why study the Bachelor of Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is concerned with the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health and the prevention of disability, in people of all ages. Physiotherapists optimize potential ability, physical function, independence and quality of life through rehabilitation practices. To achieve this, physiotherapists require an extensive understanding of physical, structural and physiological aspects of human form and movement, as well as factors relating to human functioning and the acquisition of skill.
Physiotherapy often involves promotion of motor development and coordination, physical methods to control pain, therapeutic exercise for impaired muscle systems, assisting in the physical management of the cardio-respiratory system, or improving balance and motor control for better performance and function.
What is in Curriculum?
The course BPT broadly lays emphasis on the following key areas:
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Human Anatomy
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Human Physiology
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Pathology
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Pharmacology
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Psychology
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Medical and Surgical Conditions
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Biomechanics
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Kineseology
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Disability prevention
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Rehabilitation
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How to enter the field?
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A degree (BSc) or a professional course (BPT of four years with a 6-month internship). As a professional discipline, the demand for physiotherapists improved the degree attained its professional avatar as BPT. Physiotherapy (BPT) the duration is usually four-and-a-half years.
What is Career Prospects?
Graduates work in hospitals, community health centres and agencies, rehabilitation units, or in preschool and school programs. Alternatively, they may prefer to work in private practice offering treatments to a full range of patients or specialising in areas such as sports physiotherapy, manipulative physiotherapy, paediatrics, obstetrics, orthopaedics or other fields of particular interest. Additional employment opportunities exist for researchers, advisors or consultants in educational, industrial or government institutions.
Physiotherapists are required in each department of a hospital, be it ICU or geriatrics and they can also choose to work independently or be part of a multidisciplinary team. You can enjoy flexible working hours as a consultant, choosing the number of hours you work every day.Some hospitals choose to pay physiotherapists according to the number of patients he or she sees. Initial remuneration of physiotherapists varies from place to place.
In India, the starting salary ranges from Rs. 25,000 to Rs.30,000 per month. Generally, private hospitals provide remuneration ranging between Rs. 25,000 to Rs.55,000 per month for a fresher.
In a government hospital like AIIMS, you begin as a Junior Physiotherapist and earn approximately Rs. 30,000 per month. The progression in designations is Physiotherapist followed by Senior Physiotherapist earning about Rs. 45,000 per month, followed by Superintendent earning about Rs.60,000-70,000 per month and then Chief Physiotherapist earning about Rs.80,000 per month.
What are the documents that we should submit at the time of admission?
The students seeking admission should submit the below mentioned certificates in original as it is required to verify the eligibility and to approve admission to the course by University. For Indians seeking admission - Marks card of Secondary Education (10 th standard), Marks card of Higher Secondary Education (12 th standard), Transfer Certificate issued by the concerned university, Migration Certificate issued by the concerned university, Date of Birth Certificate.
