Graduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy

This Graduate Certificate is for qualified physiotherapists who want to gain advanced clinical skills and knowledge in both musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy. You will develop advanced competencies through student-centred, critical, reflective engagement with contemporary theory, case-based discussion and critical reflection.This Graduate Certificate involves a blend of on-campus and online learning, making it ideally suited to busy working professionals balancing clinical commitments.Develop advanced theoretical and practical skills in both Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy in just six months (full-time equivalent).Differentiate with a postgraduate specialisation.Musculoskeletal and Sports physiotherapists need to be able to assess and manage a wide range of clinical presentations within an evidence informed framework. This requires advanced biomedical and psychosocial knowledge, advanced clinical examination skills, advanced clinical reasoning, and communication, education and procedural management skills. Through a variety of theoretical classes and practical experiences you will develop advanced skills and knowledge in musculoskeletal physiotherapy.

Career outcomes - : Contemporary healthcare and clinical practice require therapists’ reasoning and practice to be critical, reflective, patient-centred and evidence informed. Postgraduate education is the optimal way to develop the advanced clinical knowledge and skills essential to expert physiotherapy clinical practice.

As a graduate, you may further your physiotherapy career across a variety of settings, including:

private practice
hospitals
amateur and elite sport
clinics
gyms
rehabilitation centres
home and community services

Applicants are required to have:
- completed a Bachelor degree level, or equivalent professional entry level qualification, from a recognised
higher education institution, in Physiotherapy; AND
- a minimum 10 months full-time, or equivalent, physiotherapy practice in a relevant field following completion
of the professional entry level qualification.

English Language Requirements:

IELTS score of 7.0; TOEFL iBT score of 94 with no band less than 22; TOEFL paper-based test (PBT) score of 600 with TWE of 5.0; Cambridge CAE/CPE score of 186; Pearson's test of English (Academic) (PTE) score of 65 with no communicative score less than 65; CELUSA score of AE6.