Program Overview
Nottingham's part-time Veterinary Physiotherapy degree prepares you for a career in animal rehabilitation. With hands-on learning, theory, and practical assessments, you'll develop the skills to become a registered veterinary physiotherapist, working with vets and owners to improve animals' quality of life after injury or surgery.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Veterinary physiotherapy plays a vital role in helping animals recover or adapt from injury or surgery. Working with vets, owners, and businesses, you'll ensure animals have the best quality of life after they recover. With an emphasis on hands-on learning with real animals, plus all the theory. We'll ensure you have the skills you need to become a registered veterinary physiotherapist. Ideal for veterinary nurses and surgeons, musculoskeletal practitioners, as well as other related professions - for example, defence animal trainers.
Outline:
Year 1
- electrotherapies
- professionalism
- anatomy and physiology
- pathology
- clinical skills
- core manual skills and clinical reasoning in the practicals
Year 2
- applied clinical reasoning
- exercise programming
- case reporting
- professionalism
- project proposal for year three
- advancing your manual skills, clinical reasoning and managing cases within the clinics and placements
Year 3
- An in-depth research project with relevance to veterinary physiotherapy. You'll be allocated a supervisor and given full support to run and complete your project. The projects run for 365 days.
Assessment:
You'll be assessed through a combination of examinations, coursework and practical assessments. Practical teaching will be delivered by qualified veterinary physiotherapists, both at the campus and local veterinary practices.
Careers:
Graduates from this course go on to work as veterinary physiotherapists.
Other:
- The course is accredited by the Animal Health Professions’ Register (AHPR).
- The course is a recognised educational provider by the Register of Animal Musculoskeletal Practitioners (RAMP).
Home / UK fees: £14,700 International fees: £21,500
