Physiotherapy

| PHYSIOTHERAPY | |
| State code | 6531GX017 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Care |
| Study field | Rehabilitation |
| Qualification | Professional Bachelor in Health Sciences; Qualification of Physiotherapist |
| Form and duration of studies | Full-time studies, 3 years |
| Credits | 180 |
| Study plans | Degree Course 2026-2029 Degree Course 2025-2028 Degree Course 2024-2026 Degree Course 2023-2026 |
Career Prospects
You will be able to work in all personal health care institutions: hospitals, outpatient clinics, family centers, sanatoriums and rehabilitation centers, sports and health clubs, kindergartens, schools, social services institutions, other institutions, or to develop individual business of physiotherapy services.
Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:
- Disseminate and apply general and subject-specific knowledge of physiotherapy covering the professional cooperation and communication, the principles of applied research and ethics, and the methods for the patient/client testing, assessing and treatment, following the International Classification of Function (ICF).
- Plan, carry out and disseminate practice-oriented empirical physiotherapy research, to solve the problems of rehabilitation through expanding one’s own professional activities and implementing health care and rehabilitation innovations.
- Plan, carry out and disseminate practice-oriented empirical physiotherapy research, to solve the problems of rehabilitation through expanding one’s own professional activities and implementing health care and rehabilitation innovations.
- Demonstrate appropriate decision-making skills – to assess when the physiotherapist’s competence is sufficient to treat the patient and when the patient should be sent to another healthcare professional
- Make an individual physiotherapy plan based on physiotherapy diagnosis, considering the patient’s/client’s (a group, community) needs.
- Based practice on evidence, best practices and recommendations, systematically, systematically, and individually perform physiotherapy procedures and critically assess their effects.
- Supplement, accumulate and analyse professional documentation considering ethical, deontological, and legal principles.
- Analyse, demonstrate clinical reasoning skills and reflective practice through cooperation with patients/clients and/their family members.
- In practical activities to observe the principles of equal opportunities, diversity awareness, professional responsibility, and mutual trust in a physiotherapist-patient/client relationship.
- Foster healthy lifestyles, apply health protection measures and carry out preventive activities’ patient/client relationship.
- Demonstrate social responsibility when strengthening the image of the profession of physiotherapy and educating a patient/client to take responsibility for his/her own health.
- Communicate and cooperate with colleagues, patients/clients, groups and a community verbally and in a written form, when considering the principles of ethics and citizenship.
- Critically assess personal professional practice, take care of professional self-improvement, develop job-oriented qualities, and perform one’s job professionally, observing the principles of critical thinking and life-long learning.
Full-time studies
Degree Course 2026-2029
| 1st semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Psychology | 4 | E |
| Ethical and Legal Aspects of Rehabilitation | 5 | E |
| Preventive Physiotherapy and Health Education | 4 | E |
| Nutrition and Physical Activity | 3 | E |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 7 | E |
| Kinesiology and Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| Cognitive Practice | 3 | P |
| 2nd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 4 | E |
| Kinesiology and Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| General and Clinical Pathology | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy Assessment | 5 | E |
| Manipulative (massage) Techniques | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy Business Management and Administration | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy Assessment | 4 | P |
| 3rd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Health Law | 3 | E |
| Pharmacology | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Surgery | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy Techniques | 7 | E |
| Basics of Nursing and Emergency Care | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases and Surgery | 5 | P |
| 4th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Methodology of Applied Research and Statistics | 4 | E |
| Community and Sports Physiotherapy | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy and Women Health | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Orthopedics | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy Business Management and Administration | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Orthopedics | 6 | P |
| Optional Subject | 3 | E |
| 5th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Neurologic Physiotherapy | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy for Elderly | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Neurology and Geriatrics | 6 | P |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 6 | P |
| Optional Subject | 3 | E |
| 6th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Final Practice | 20 | P |
| Final Thesis | 10 | P |
Optional subjects are freely selectable subjects from the list of predefined subjects.
* E – exam, P – project
Full-time studies
Degree Course 2025-2028
| 1st semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Psychology | 5 | E |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 7 | E |
| Kinesiology and Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| Preventive Physiotherapy and Health Education | 4 | E |
| Nutrition and Physical Activity | 3 | E |
| Basics of Rehabilitation and Bioethics | 4 | E |
| Cognitive Practice | 3 | P |
| 2nd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 4 | E |
| General and Clinical Pathology | 3 | E |
| Therapeutic Modalities | 4 | E |
| Kinesiology and Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy Assessment | 5 | E |
| Manual Techniques | 7 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy Assessment | 3 | P |
| 3rd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Health Law | 3 | E |
| Pharmacology | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Surgery | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy Techniques | 7 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases and Surgery | 5 | P |
| Optional Subject | 3 | E |
| 4th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Methodology of Applied Research and Statistics | 4 | E |
| Community and Sports Physiotherapy | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy and Women Health | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Orthopedics | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy Business Management and Administration | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Orthopedics | 6 | P |
| Optional Subject | 3 | E |
| 5th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Neurologic Physiotherapy | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy for Elderly | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Neurology and Geriatrics | 6 | P |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 6 | P |
| Optional Subject | 3 | E |
| 6th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation * |
| Final Practice | 20 | P |
| Final Thesis | 10 | P |
Optional subjects are freely selectable subjects from the list of predefined subjects.
* E – exam, P – project
Full-time studies
Degree Course 2024-2027
Degree Course 2023-2026
| 1st semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Psychology | 5 | E |
| Basics of Rehabilitation and Bioethics | 4 | E |
| Preventive Physiotherapy and Health Education | 4 | E |
| Nutrition and Physical Activity | 3 | E |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 7 | E |
| Kinesiology, Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| Cognitive Practice | 3 | P |
| 2nd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Anatomy and Physiology | 4 | E |
| Kinesiology, Biomechanics | 4 | E |
| General and Clinical Pathology | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy Assessment | 5 | E |
| Physical Agents | 4 | E |
| Manipulative (massage) Techniques | 7 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy Assessment | 3 | P |
| 3rd semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Health Law | 3 | E |
| Pharmacology | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Surgery | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy Techniques | 7 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Internal Diseases and Surgery | 5 | P |
| Optional Course 1 | 3 | E |
| 4th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Methodology of Applied Research and Statistics | 4 | E |
| Community and Sports Physiotherapy | 4 | E |
| Physiotherapy and Women Health | 3 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Ortopedics | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy Business Management and Administration | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Traumatology and Orthopedic | 6 | P |
| Optional Course 2 | 3 | E |
| 5th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Physiotherapy in Neurology | 7 | E |
| Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 5 | E |
| Physiotherapy for Elderly | 3 | E |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Neurology and Geriatric | 6 | P |
| Practice of Physiotherapy in Pediatrics | 6 | P |
| Optional Course 3 | 3 | E |
| 6th semester (30 credits) | ||
| Module (Subjects) | Credits | Evaluation* |
| Final Practice | 20 | E |
| Professional Bachelor Graduation Thesis | 10 | P |
Optional subjects are freely selectable subjects from the list of predefined subjects.
* E – exam, P – project