Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation education prepares professionals with professional autonomy who receive at least four years of undergraduate education in accordance with internationally accepted standards. Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation encompasses all approaches aimed at developing and improving the functional abilities and mobility of individuals and communities throughout their lives. It includes all approaches addressing movement and functional impairments resulting from disease, disorders, and environmental factors. Furthermore, it includes concepts such as health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation to maintain and improve quality of life.

In general, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation education aims to educate professional physiotherapists who:

  • Are sensitive to all developments and changes that may affect the health of individuals, families, and society, and are able to reflect these in the services they provide through the knowledge they have acquired.
  • Are able to access scientific knowledge in the field of health, follow current literature, evaluate it, and apply it in practice.
  • Are able to identify the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation needs of healthy, ill, and disabled individuals, and define and implement the necessary physiotherapy and related rehabilitation programmes to meet these needs in accordance with professional standards.
  • Adopt lifelong learning as a professional principle.