Continuing Education

The School of Physiotherapy provides a variety of continuing education opportunities for physiotherapists and allied health practitioners (subjects with asterisks are open to allied health practitioners).

Short Courses Calendar
The School of Physiotherapy offers a range of short courses both locally and overseas, refer Short Courses Calendar.

Single Subjects
Qualified physiotherapists and other allied health professionals may take a single subject from the Master of Physiotherapy by Coursework under the Community Access Program (CAP). For those thinking of returning to study after a break, taking a single subject under CAP is an excellent way to "try it out" and to develop some postgraduate study skills.

Some subjects are taught and assessed over a full semester and other subjects are taught in an intensive teaching block (with assessment over the full semester). Please check the timetable for each subject. Note that not all subjects are offered every year.

Application and enrolment is through the Community Access Program of the University. Local applicants may enrol on either an assessed or non-assessed basis. Under certain conditions, successfully completed assessed subjects may be considered for credit towards a postgraduate degree.

Subjects offered under the Community Access Program include:

For Physiotherapists:
513-910 Dry Needling for Physiotherapists
513-642 Exercise for Women
513-648 Sports & Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy A
513-669 Paediatric Physiotherapy Theory
513-640 Pelvic Floor (The): Function and Dysfunction
513-652 Radiology for Physiotherapists

Open to allied health practitioners:
513-659 Academic Writing, Ethics and Critical Enquiry*
513-660 Graduate Research Methods*
513-658 Motor Control, Performance and Exercise*
513-684 Neurosciences*
513-657 Pain and Its Management*
513-656 Law and Ethics in Allied Health*
513-911 Conducting a Systematic Review*
513-914 Advanced Publication Skills Physiotherapy*


English Language Requirements
For assessed single semester subjects from degree courses of the School you will need to meet the University English language requirements.
For non-assessed continuing education courses, short courses or single semester subjects from higher degree programs you are not required to meet the University English language requirement.   However your English language skills need to be at a sufficient standard to benefit from the instruction.   You should still check the University requirements to see what an expected level of competency would be.

Enquiries
For all enquiries please contact the School of Physiotherapy:
physio-enquiries@ unimelb.edu.au or call us on: +61 3 8344 4171