Double Degree - Bachelor of Physiotherapy & Bachelor of Exercise & Sport Science (3540) (073025J)

Designed by highly-respected industry practitioners, the 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 specialized knowledge and application within each path. This gives students the opportunity to develop profession-specific areas of knowledge and skills from both degrees.

In order to ensure that students 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. The second and fourth years of the degree include industry practicums in Physiotherapy and in Exercise & Sport Science.

Students' 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, they will have developed their 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 locations.