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Publication of the Medical Rehabilitation is under the auspices of the Committee on Rehabilitation, Physical Education and Social Integration of the Polish Academy of Science
Article
Medical Rehabilitation - quarterly journal
Volume 12 year 2008, Issue number 4
The need and possibility of teaching clinical neurophysiology at faculties of physiotherapy
Authors: Ryszard Kinalski
Medical Rehabilitation 2008; 12(3): 37-44
The need and possibility of teaching clinical neurophysiology at faculties of physiotherapy
Potrzeba i możliwość nauczania neurofizjologii klinicznej studentów fizjoterapii
Ryszard Kinalski
The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Bialystok, Poland
Key words
undergraduate education, clinical neurophysiology, physiotherapy
Abstract
Introduction: Although fundamental issues of clinical neurophysiology constitute a part of standard education of students at physiotherapy faculties, the graduates from these faculties do not associate their professional and/or scientific career with this category of clinical diagnostic studies. These diagnostic tools, however, are very important for neurorehabilitation. Thus, students are not trained by professional clinical neurophysiologists. Problems related to clinical neurophysiology are implemented in different study and train¬ing contents that disintegrate transfer of knowledge and are harmful for the rank of clinical neurophysiology in the environment of physiotherapists.
Aim of the study: To show that, in conformance with the standards of physiotherapy education, there is a need to teach clinical neurophysiology as a separate subject and that there are possibilities to reliably utilise the existing infrastructural and financial potential to introduce the lectures and practical training of clinical neurophysiology into the physiotherapy faculties curricula.
Study form: to perform an initial assessment to estimate: 1. which issues of clinical neurophysiology are implemented in core standards of education of the physiotherapy faculty students; 2. in which and how many of the country districts medical or physical education universities and other public or private high schools have faculties of physiotherapy; 3. in which districts, bordered territorially by these schools, there are establishments licensed to conduct training in clinical neurophysiology; 4. what type of scientific status do persons certified in clinical neurophysiology have, who are listed in the districts with physiotherapy faculties. 5. how many persons among physicians and physical culture teachers receive scientific degrees for research in clinical neurophysiology associated with rehabilitation and physiotherapy.
Conclusions: There is a need, infrastructure and financial support to include clinical neurophysiology into the curricula of the physiotherapy undergraduate education.
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