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Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 3a – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Students also need to take note that in accordance with the National Registration Board’s requirement, they must hold a valid IELTS (academic module) minimum score of 7.0 in all components within 2 years prior to applying for registration.

Special admission requirements

A quota may be imposed on the number of students accepted for entry to the honours course depending on the availability of supervisors.

Post admission requirements

This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, a Suitability to Work with Children Card, a federal police check and/or other conditions that students must comply with. Students must complete all professional experience placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of these requirements in order to stay admitted in the course.

You will find your course requirements here:

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Course learning outcomes

On successful completion, graduates of the course will be able to:

1. Integrate and adapt a coherent and advanced body of theoretical knowledge and technical competencies in diverse contexts as an entry level physiotherapist
2. Review professional and ethical frameworks, and underlying principles and concepts, to inform professional behaviours and responsibilities
3. Retrieve, critically evaluate and apply established and evolving evidence and concepts to advanced physiotherapy practice
4. Demonstrate advanced oral and written English language and numerical skills that enable clear, coherent and appropriate communication of theoretical or therapy concepts, treatment options and professional decisions, with clients, families, communities and other professionals
5. Formulate, implement and evaluate physiotherapy management plans, across the lifespan, for culturally and demographically diverse peoples, especially in tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities
6. Apply physiotherapy-based health assessment, promotion, prevention and self-management strategies to individuals and populations
7. Deliver and facilitate safe, sustainable and effective collaborative client-centred healthcare within a clearly defined and accepted scope of practice for a physiotherapist
8. Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes to determine future professional development requirements
9. Apply knowledge of research principles and methods to plan and execute a piece of research and scholarship with some independence.

JCU Townsville

Maximum time to complete

6 years

Maximum allowed

63 credit points

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 11 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Approved abbreviation

BPhysio(Hons)

Exit with lesser award

Students who exit the course prior to completion and have successfully completed 12 credit points of appropriate subjects, may be eligible for the award of Certificate of Higher Education.

Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies.

Students who have completed 72 credit points of their professional course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Life Sciences.