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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.

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Clinical placement/professional practice:

This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements).

Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure.

Course learning outcomes

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

1. Integrate and adapt a broad and coherent 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 physiotherapy practice
4. Formulate, implement and evaluate physiotherapy management plans, across the lifespan, for culturally and demographically diverse peoples, especially in tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities
5. Demonstrate effective 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
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.

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.

Eligibility

Entry to embedded honours

At the start of level 3 of the course the College Dean will invite applications from students

• Normally students will have obtained a GPA of 5 (Credit or better) for the subjects completed for levels 1 and 2 of the course

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

Graduate entry to honours

Successful completion of a pass degree in Physiotherapy

• Normally students will have achieved a GPA of not less than 5.0 calculated over the four levels of the pass degree

• Students’ professional experience and continuing professional development will be also be considered in their application

• Students may be required to undertake work additional to the pass degree before commencing honours