Masters (Coursework)
Bond University's innovative approach to physiotherapy education ensures you are work-ready, competent, and confident to practice in a wide range of settings including hospitals, community clinics and private practices.
Bond's Doctor of Physiotherapy program is renowned for its unique blend of problem-based scientific learning, practical application, and more clinical hours than any other physiotherapy degree in Australia!
You will graduate equipped with the fundamental physiotherapy knowledge, critical skills, and professional behaviours and attitudes required to examine, diagnose, and treat clients across the lifespan by learning from an integrated curriculum of clinical and related basic sciences.
Immerse yourself in clinical experiential learning, with clinical placements included in the core subject listing, and a further internship offered as an elective. Placements are sought in a variety of settings across the full spectrum of clinical areas including orthopaedics, cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, neurological, ortho-geriatric, rehabilitation, chronic disease, disability, occupational, and sports practice.
Your classes will primarily be delivered at the Bond Institute of Health and Sport, where you will have access to advanced facilities and equipment. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to undertake innovative and clinical research projects.
The Doctor of Physiotherapy is designed to produce work-ready, entry-level graduates who are competent to practice across the lifespan in a range of environments and settings.
Physiotherapy can be applied to a broad range of core areas which you may be able to specialise in, including:
This area is more specific to providing support after injury or surgery and to reduce the likelihood of injury in the future. If you’re interested in rehabilitation, you may be able to work across few key areas include:
To progress to potential career options in research organisations and academia, you will need to progress to further postgraduate study. You could work in both public and private sectors across the fascinating field of research or academic teaching.
The Doctor of Physiotherapy program uses a problem-based learning (PBL) model for education. Resource teaching sessions (lectures and practical problem-solving classes), along with seminars and assignments support and extend the PBL mode of learning. Examination formats include objective structure clinical examinations (OSCEs), theory papers, assignments and oral presentations.
Students must complete the following two hundred and forty credit points (240CP) of subjects.