Designed by highly-respected industry practitioners, our Bachelor of Physiotherapy/Bachelor of Exercise & Sport Science program is the only degree of its kind in Australia. Accredited by the Australian Physiotherapy Council, this double degree provides a pathway that incorporates two complementary programs in the health and exercise sciences.

Physiotherapy and Exercise & Sport Science share a common bond in much of the human sciences while also having specialised knowledge and application within each path. This gives you the opportunity to develop profession-specific areas of knowledge and skills from both degrees. In order to ensure that you graduate with the practical skills and training necessary to excel, this combined degree contains 1400 hours of workplace experience. This practicum component is composed of physiotherapy-specific clinical placements in addition to Exercise & Sport Science practical experiences. From your first year, you will experience physiotherapy clinical practice through our Pre-Clinical Experience program. The second and fourth years of your degree also includes industry practicums in Exercise & Sport Science.

Your formal physiotherapy clinical education program begins with a five-week placement in Year Three, continues in Year Four and culminates in almost full-time clinical practice during Year Five of the course. Upon graduation, you will have developed your clinical assessment, treatment skills and reflective professional practice in laboratories and through exposure to patients in physiotherapy practices, hospital or community health settings in urban and rural centres.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

The fully accredited Physiotherapy course offers a formal curriculum that contains all of the elements required for professional registration. Graduates are eligible to register as physiotherapists with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA) allowing them to work throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Registration allows graduates to work across all states and territories in Australia, with mutual recognition also permitting registration in New Zealand. Although each country has its own registration processes the standard of Australian physiotherapy qualification is highly regarded internationally.

The following careers are open to graduates of this program:

• All physiotherapy clinical areas
• Healthcare management
• Industrial rehabilitation
• Research
• Academic teaching
• Sport