• Call Us

    0905-392-9899
  • Address

    University Drive, Off Idofin Road, Oko-Irese, Kwara State

Doctor of Physiotherapy

Programme Objectives

The specific objectives are to:

  1. Produce graduates with adequate theoretical knowledge and clinical skills to offer necessary rehabilitation, medical, sporting and primary health care services.
  2. Train competent physiotherapists who are capable of providing evidence-based physiotherapy services for effective team work.
  3. Produce Physiotherapists who are adaptable to knowledge, reflective and service-oriented to improve health care delivery.
  4. Train professionals with a sense of commitment to patients and the profession at all times.
  5. Produce personnel who can acquire knowledge in health policies, health management, global health issues and socio-cultural health issues.

Some other specific objectives are to produce Physiotherapist that will:

  1. Be able to work in Hospitals, Rehabilitation facilities and other Health Establishments as members of the Health Team; in Physiotherapy Training Institutions, Research Centres and other Academic environments after undergoing relevant postgraduate training; in Sports, Physical Fitness and Health promotion Facilities; and in Industrial workplace and other occupational environments.
  2. Evaluate physical ailments and disabilities, plan and carry out a programme of treatment according to the patient’s clinical state.
  3. Recognize the role of the Physiotherapist in Health Care delivery in the community and in the Health Team.
  4. Participate in clinical research with others as a means of further study and professional enhancement.
  5. Acquire, develop and maintain rapport with professional colleagues, patients, their relatives and members of the Health Care Team.
  6. Acquire a sense of commitment to patients and the profession at all times.
  7. Acquire knowledge in health policies, health management, global health issues and socio-cultural health issues.
Copyright © 2024, Thomas Adewumi University, Oko | All rights reserved.