Module PT3551-KP08

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

8

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Physiotherapy 2022, compulsory,

Classes and lectures:

• Practical Course Orthopaedics/Neurology (external block practical course, 15.2 SWS)
• Exkursion 3 (external block seminar, 0.5 SWS)

Workload:

• 228 hours integrated internship hours
• 8 hours excursion
• 4 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Objective and documentation options for a personal development plan and progress
• Practical work in a specific medical field (musculoskeletal rehabilitation in an ambulant setting/neurology)
• Independent planning, control and design of physiotherapy processes
• Knowledge deepening of the module-related, theoretically practical teaching through practical work on the patient
• Cooperation between student and mentor

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students are familiar with basic internal processes in a specific medical department and have a higher level of understanding of clinical organization, specific clinical care situations and physiotherapeutic treatments.
• They have a broad understanding of the modes of action of movement-related systems (musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, cardiorespiratory, endocrine, metabolic and neurological/psychiatric) as well as its interaction and explain its influence on movement and health.
• The students analyze, assess and influence movement-related systems with regard to their specific structures and functions as well as influencing movement.
• They use general and specific assessment procedures that are standardized as possible, can explain them and specifically justify their diagnostic use.
• They plan, control, organize and design physiotherapeutic interventions to maintain the greatest possible independence, participation and quality of life.
• They apply goal-oriented and safe physiotherapeutic and educational measures and techniques to influence movement-related functions on the basis of the best current evidence, justify and evaluate their mode of action and reflect on their own actions.
• They use basic methods of communication, education and counseling.
• Together with the patients and their environment, the students look for practicable solutions to certain health problems and help to implement them.
• They shape the communication with patients and their caregivers in different physiotherapeutic situations, taking into account patient-friendly language and also manage emotionally challenging situations.
• They cooperate with other professions in order to coordinate the various therapy processes and approaches.
• They adapt the physiotherapeutic process design to the different care contexts.
• They can analyse themselves and their environment based on the basics of reflexive thinking, critically assess them and, if necessary,initiate changes.
• They can plan their own actions strategically and purposefully, taking into account the appropriate measures to optimal cooperation between them and their mentors.
• The students know the basics and strategies of reflexive thinking and can name and present them.

Grading through:

• practical exam

Requires:

• Evidence-based Practice in Physiotherapy 2 (PT2500-KP07)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke

Teacher:

• Institute of Health Sciences
• external institution
• MitarbeiterInnen der kooperierenden Lehrkrankenhäuser
• Dozierende des Fachbereichs Physiotherapie

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

04.07.2025