Admission requirements

Successful applicants are admitted through one of the following competitions:

• Institutional Competition: completed secondary education and one of the following entrance exam groups:
  • Biology and Geology
  • Biology and Geology + Physics and Chemistry
  • Biology and Geology + Portuguese

• Special Competitions:
  • Students Over 23 Years of Age
  • Holders of Higher Education Degrees
  • Holders of a Technological Specialization Diploma (DET)
  • Holders of a Higher Technical Professional Diploma
• Change of Institution/Course
• Readmission
• International Student
• Special Conditions Regimes: see the DGES site.

Diploma Requirements

A successfully concluded Undergraduate Degree in Physiotherapy requires completion of a study program of 240 mandatory ECTS credits.

Consequently, Licenciado degree holders in Physiotherapy acquire the skills and competences necessary to:

• Identify structures, functioning, regulation and homeostasis of human body and the return mechanisms to function and the improvements of the health status;
• Describe the normal human movement, identify constraints and deviations from the normality, and enumerate the mechanisms that lead to its regulation, identifying the main problems and planning appropriate interventions;
• Identify and interpret national and international law in the SC and health areas;
• Apply the model and evaluation methodology in Physiotherapy based on the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) model;
• Identify and apply methods and evaluation and intervention techniques in physiotherapy;
• Perform research and disseminate the results;
• Rehabilitate different functional conditions in real contexts, efficiently, performing assessment and reassessment reports, with measurement results;
• Exercise clinical practice, efficiently, in different contexts of providing health care/services.

Accreditation / Evaluation

Silves

• Accredited by the A3ES – Portuguese Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency
• Published: 10/02/2017
• Decision of the A3ES Board of Directors

V. N. Gaia

• Accredited by the A3ES – Portuguese Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency
• Published: 09/02/2017
• Decision of the A3ES Board of Directors

Viseu

• Accredited by the A3ES – Portuguese Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency
• Published: 10/02/2017
• Decision of the A3ES Board of Directors

Career Opportunities

Career opportunities for Licenciado degree holders in Physiotherapy include jobs and positions in:

• Hospitals;
• Public and private clinics and health centres;
• Rehabilitation centres;
• Spas and other thermal establishments;
• Sports structures;
• Special education schools and institutes;
• Institutions for the elderly.

Professional Title

The qualification gives access to the professional title of Fisioterapeuta, included in the professional career of Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica.

Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget em Silves

Registado da DGES nr: R/A-Ef 175/2011/AL02, publicado em DR pelo Aviso n.º 9822/2017, de 24 de agosto.

Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget em Viseu

Registado na DGES com o nr: R/A-Ef 183/2011/AL02, publicado em DR pelo Aviso n.º 9884/2017, de 25 de agosto.

Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget em V. N. Gaia

Registado na DGES com o nr: R/A-Ef 180/2011/AL02, publicado em DR pelo Aviso n.º 9753/2017, de 23 de agosto.

4 years / 8 semesters • Total = 240 ECTS Credits

Further studies

Licenciado degree gives access to postgraduate studies in terms and under the conditions of the currently valid legislation.

Study area

Physiotherapy

Assessment

The purpose of the student’s assessment is to evaluate his/her achievements in the acquisition and development of knowledge and competences defined in the Curricular Units syllabi.

Thus, assessment methods and instruments are adapted to the specific objectives, characteristics and contents of the corresponding Curricular Unit, and assessment is carried out in accordance with the currently valid Attendance and Assessment Regulations.

There are two main types of assessment: Continuous Assessment, which assesses the student’s work over an academic period (semester / quarter / year), e.g. his/her participation in the Curricular Unit activities, individual and/or group assignments, oral and written tests, etc., and Assessment by Exam, which assesses only the student’s performance at the exam he/she sits for.