Master competences

Role as health care provider

• M1 Possess insight into the causes, clinical symptoms, prevention and principles of treatment of health problems, with complex and specific disorders.*
• M2 Independently execute and interpret the screening, medical history and relevant clinical examination of patients with complex and specific disorders.*
• M3 Coach and empower various target groups regarding health-promoting behaviour and with attention for prevention.*
• M4 Independently make a physiotherapeutic diagnosis on the basis of clinical reasoning for patients with complex and specific disorders.*
• M5 Independently formulate physiotherapeutic targets, compile a treatment plan, execute and assess for patients with complex and specific disorders.*
• M6 Report both in writing and orally on complex clinical situations with patients and those personally involved, colleagues and non-colleagues, within an (inter)national context.*

Role as health care manager

• M7 Integrate social, ethical and legal consequences of new developments into a real clinical context and into scientific research.
• M8 Reflect critically on one’s own functioning and that of others from a multi-perspectivist viewpoint.*
• M9 Possess integrity and have a critical attitude in a real clinical context and in scientific research.
• M10 Possess insight into the setting up and management of a physiotherapeutic practice.
• M11 Possess basic skills to hold a managerial and policy support position.

Role as developer of the profession and scientific researcher

• M12 Independently work out a systematic study of the literature and formulate concrete research questions based on the same.
• M13 Work out and execute a research protocol.
• M14 Use familiar methods and techniques from scientific research critically and responsibly.
• M15 Interpret one’s own research outcomes in a critically scientific manner within an international context.
• M16 Communicate and report one’s own research outcomes in a scientific manner to colleagues and non-colleagues.
• M17 Reflect independently on new complex problems in the REVAKI domain.
• M18 Continually optimise one’s own professional thinking and activities on the basis of new insights.

* Specification of patients with complex and specific disorders, per specialisation, taking their specific context into account

• MSS: persons having complex and/or sport-specific musculoskeletal disorders, taking into account the coach and any others personally involved
• Paediatric: a child or young person having complex disorders, taking into account his or her parents, teachers and any others personally involved
• Internal: persons having complex internal disorders, taking into account the family context and any others personally involved
• Elderly people: persons having complex disorders typical of the ageing process, taking into account the specific residential setting, the family context and any others personally involved

Note: REVAKI = rehabilitation sciences and physiotherapy

The study programme complies with the requirements set by the Royal Decree of 15 April 2002 concerning recognition as a physiotherapist and recognition of special titles concerning professional practice and special competencies, published in the Belgian Official Journal on 28 June 2002.