Education

#AFSH1516238ARegulation on the State Diploma of Physiotherapist

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law outlines the structure and requirements for obtaining the State Diploma of Physiotherapist in France. It integrates physiotherapy education into the university system with a focus on license, master, and doctorate processes. Institutions must align with a university for education delivery, which includes rigorous training, evaluation, and staged progression over four years, preceded by an initial university year.

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Key Changes

  • Education integrated into the university system
  • Four-year training with periodic evaluations
  • Stage structures and admission processes outlined

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Training institutes must enter into a convention with a university having a health component and the regional council, determining participation modalities and responsibilities of all three signatories

Physiotherapy training institutes
operational
high

Training institutes must conduct self-evaluation of the training program and undergo periodic evaluation by the independent authority responsible for evaluation at the ministry of higher education

Physiotherapy training institutes
reporting
medium

The institute director must set start dates after consulting the pedagogical council, with dates occurring no later than the end of the second week of September

Physiotherapy training institute directors
operational
high

Administrative enrollment is limited to a maximum of two inscriptions per year and eight inscriptions total across the entire training program, with additional inscriptions only granted by the director after pedagogical council consultation

Physiotherapy training institutes
operational
high

Attendance at practical work sessions and internship periods is mandatory; attendance at certain lectures may be mandatory based on the institute's pedagogical project

Students in physiotherapy training programs
operational

Affected Parties

Physiotherapy studentsEducational institutions providing physiotherapy training

Tags

physiotherapy,education,training