BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is a career with an incredibly positive impact, helping people of all ages to reach their health and wellbeing goals. It’s a career ideally suited to great communicators, who can put the patient’s story at the centre of their care. Skilled physiotherapy integrates the physical with the emotional to build a complete picture.

As a physiotherapy student at UEA, you’ll join a close community of therapy staff and students who create a positive learning environment and support your wellbeing throughout the course. Our Physiotherapy team are a dynamic group of active researchers and clinicians, with clinical, research, education and leadership expertise. Our interdisciplinary ethos means that you’ll be studying with a range of allied health professional students in sectors you’ll encounter in your working life.

Our programme offers a unique combination of opportunities, including case-based teaching to reflect real practice, the opportunity to develop your clinical confidence and competence through immersive hands-on simulation sessions, learning anatomy using dissection, placements that start in year one and an elective professional development placement in the final year. As a physiotherapy student, you’ll learn how to apply problem-solving and clinical reasoning to assess and evaluate a client’s health. You’ll master specific assessment and treatment techniques and gain understanding of how to manage both yourself and those around you.

You’ll develop interpersonal