Auckland Bioengineering Institute

The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) is a cross-faculty research centre. Our research deals with the application of mathematical and engineering sciences to biology and human physiology. We aim to improve understanding of physiological processes and the diagnosis and treatment of injury or disease. Many of our staff have joint appointments in other Faculties, especially with the Department of Engineering Science in the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Physiology in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.

Doctoral and masters research projects

The social academy for self learners

What is schooX

In 5 Words

An Academy for Self-Learners!

In 25 Words

An Academy where self-learners can earn badges and certificates online and build a strong portfolio of qualifications and experts teach online and monetize their knowledge.

In 125 Words

schooX is an Academy for self-learners which aims to revolutionize and democratize education. Self-learners can attend online courses from a wide range of course and knowledge providers, create personalized curriculums on any subject and build a strong portfolio of qualifications and skills which they can promote and use it even to find a job. Experts, Training Companies and Educational Institutions like Colleges and Universities can create incredibly easy online courses on schooX and teach online. If they want to monetize they just have to set a price, use integrated tools to promote their courses and track their conversions and their financials. Furthermore, they can even create their own public or private academy within schooX and build their own community. This is how learning should be.

Learn. Think. Do.

Our mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to advance their education and careers.

Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity was born. Now we're a growing team of educators and engineers on a mission to change the future of education. By making high-quality classes affordable and accessible for students across the globe: Udacity is democratizing education. To learn more about our courses see our course catalog.

High quality, free, open texts and resources

It’s innovation in education. And the time is right. OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers. Adopt a book today for a turnkey classroom solution or modify it to suit your teaching approach. Free online and low-cost in print, OpenStax College books are built for today’s student budgets.

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Just like you...

We are clinicians

We’d move heaven and earth for the benefit of our patients

We are busy

And don’t want to waste time collecting education without a purpose

Our education has a purpose – to improve our patient care.

       And, we offer evidence of that!

We are curious

       And, maybe a bit non-traditional.

And, yet we are different from each other.

       We come from different clinical backgrounds and we like our differences!

Master in Music Therapy

Barcelona

INTER-UNIVERSITY MASTERS

IDEC-Pompeu Fabra University 

Blanquerna-Ramon Llull University

The programme aims to train specialist music therapists so that they can work in a wide range of situations in both education and healthcare. Our philosophy is based on the premise that the music therapist is a person and a professional with a strong connection to music; someone who is committed to using it for healing purposes, to help people who have special requirements and/or who need special support. The knowledge gained by students on this master should leave them prepared and professionally competent, while also maximising personal growth. This is a university degree and therefore aims to provide future specialists with the knowledge and theoretical and practical competencies necessary for professional practice, as well as the methodological rigour and spirit of constant perfectionism that will help them to further develop this profession, whether in practice or in research.

Potential candidates

The course is mainly designed for people working in the fields of education, health and/or music: teachers (pre-school, primary, secondary, special needs and music teaching), speech therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, community workers, psychologists, educationalists, school counsellors, doctors and qualified musicians.

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) has been recognized as the "#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America" since 1991 by U.S. News & World Report. No other specialty hospital has been consecutively ranked the "#1" by U.S. News & World Report for so long.

MIT courses - online for free and from your home

“The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.” Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering

Have you ever imagined attending an MIT course for free and from your home? Now you can do it! Because MIT has created an online source of some of its most interesting and valuable courses in many different topics such as business, technology, medicine, arts, teaching and more.

Here are a few things to know about MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) before you begin:

There are more than 2,100 courses on OCW and you might want to begin your exploration in any of these ways:

• Find a course by topic or by department.
• Peruse courses on our Cross-Disciplinary Topic Lists: energy, entrepreneurship, environment, life sciences, and transportation.
• Browse through our other collections: Audio/Video Lectures, New Courses, Most Visited Courses, OCW Scholar, or Supplemental Resources.
• Check out our other featured site: Highlights for High School.

Master Programme in Sport Science, Sports Medicine

Lund University in Sweden:

Programme overview

Master's Programme, 2 Years, Full time

Code: LU-18520

120 credits

Lund Campus

Study period: 02 Sep 2013 – 07 Jun 2015

The aim of the programme is to provide in-depth knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of sport sciences, from a number of different scientific perspectives. Particular focus is placed on advanced in-depth study of sports medicine and sport psychology.

The programme includes second-cycle courses in

• prevention and treatment of sports injuries
• sports nutrition
• exercise physiology
• leadership and communication
• mental aspects of sport and physical performance
• applied sport and exercise psychology (team and individual)
• An important aspect of the programme is close contact with potential future employers and workplaces through internships.

Medbridge education online

Learn, Connect, Succeed

MedBridge Education dedicates itself to providing high quality online continuing education for Physical Therapy professionals. By collaborating with top-tier clinicians and technology-learning integration experts, MedBridge Education has created a premier curriculum designed specifically for online delivery. You will learn up-to-date, evidence-based curriculum, and proven rehabilitation techniques designed to immediately help your patients.

Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

One of the best BSc' s in Physiotherapy by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

"With inter-professional working ever more important, our strong focus in this area is a big ‘plus' post-graduation. We promote hands-on, practical, patient-centred training that leads to professional registration through our undergraduate courses and high quality care.

We're responsive to health and social care policy, also providing a service to the local community while training - for example through local volunteer patients.

You'll be taught by experienced practitioner staff who are also active researchers in their field. Strong links with practice colleagues ensure up-to-date courses that equip our graduates to enter the workplace with specific skills attractive to domestic and international markets. You'll also learn transferable skills in communication and team working.

Professional placements throughout many courses start as early as year one - earlier than at some other universities. This allows students to start putting theory into practice as soon as possible".

Master of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy - University of South Australia

The Master of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy program is a one-year coursework Masters degree with classes commencing in mid January and finishing in mid November. As a combined Masters of both Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, the nine courses (45 units) which make up this Masters program have been developed to meet the competency requirements of the Charter of Educational Standards for Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA) and Sports Physiotherapy Australia (SPA), two national special groups of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

Contemporary health care in general, and Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy in particular, requires therapists' reasoning and practice to be critical, reflective, patient-centred and evidence-based. It is the aim of the program to provide physiotherapists with specialised musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy education to enable them to develop an advanced level of evidence-based practice.

Unique features of the program include:

advanced education in clinical reasoning theory and practice;

dedicated courses in evidence-based theory and practice, pain science and chronic pain management;

musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy assessment and management, including two dedicated courses in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy assessment skills with intensive supervision;

three dedicated courses in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy management skills and supervised practice with intensive supervision (student ratio of mostly 1:3 for clinical work). Students undertake 180 hours of supervised clinical practice across these three courses.

All practical, theory and supervised clinical sessions are taken by leading musculoskeletal and/or sports physiotherapists, with medical theory provided by Adelaide's leading medical orthopaedic and sports related medical specialists.

Master of Science BioMedical Engineering - TU Delft

As medical science has advanced, physicians and patients have relied on increasingly sophisticated medical devices for diagnosis, treatment, and long-term health care. Biomedical engineers are key players in the development, design, and continuing refinement of devices such as joint replacement prostheses, microsensors, imaging and image processing, as well as advanced instruments for use in such domains as minimally invasive surgery and the diagnosis of movement disorders. 

What you will learn

The TU Delft master's programme in BioMedical Engineering is a multidisciplinary programme which aims to provide you with both an understanding of biology and medical theory as well as highly specialised technical training in such fields as electrical, physics, material and mechanical engineering.

You will learn how to develop conceptual models from a technical perspective and you will work in close collaboration with physicians, researchers and other healthcare professionals, including on-site at the collaborating academic institutions.

Learning from 3 faculties and 3 teachings hospitals:

You will take courses offered by three TU Delft faculties:

• Applied Sciences
• Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• Mechanical, Marine and Materials Engineering

The programme also benefits from the clinical input provided by three teaching hospitals:

• Leiden University Medical Center
• Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam
• Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam

Try a free course online: Biomedical Engineering

Delft Institute of Prosthetics and Orthotics

The Delft Institute of Prosthetics and Orthotics is part of the BioMechanical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering [Faculty 3mE] at the Delft University of Technology. Our goal is to develop and provide innovative prostheses and orthosis for the upper extremity.

The research outcome is, apart from being published, taken through a thorough process of clinical evaluation, resulting in commercially available products under the WILMER brand name.

The European School of Physiotherapy

Can you summarize in one sentence why you chose the European School of Physiotherapy?

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital - UK

"RNOH is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and regarded as a leader in the field of orthopaedics both in the UK and world-wide.

We provide a comprehensive and unique range of neuro-musculoskeletal healthcare, ranging from acute spinal injuries to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic back sufferers.

RNOH also plays a major role in teaching. Over 20% of all UK orthopaedic surgeons receive training at the RNOH. Our patients benefit from a team of highly specialised consultants, many of whom are nationally and internationally recognised for their expertise.

We enhance our clinical effectiveness by working in partnership with University College London and in particular UCL’s Institute of Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Science, based on the Stanmore campus. The IOMS, together with the RNOH, has a long track record of innovative research leading to new devices and treatments for some of the most complex orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions.

The Spinal Cord Injury Centre at the RNOH is one of only 11 in the UK designated to receive and treat spinal cord injured patients. The Centre currently has 24 beds comprising of eight acute beds and 16 rehabilitation beds. However there is the capacity to treat up to 40 patients within the RNOH at any one time.

Patients are admitted predominantly from the south east of England on an urgent referral basis. The aim is to admit all patients as soon as possible following their injury. The centre consists of a team of multi-professional specialists who work towards a patient focused service and rehabilitation is based around patient centred goals.

Children and adolescents with spinal cord injury can be admitted to the RNOH. They are initially managed on the Alan Bray Unit (Intensive Care/High Dependency Unit) and subsequently on the paediatric/adolescent units by the Spinal Injuries Team".

Physical Therapy teaching

  

During my 1st year of studies, I had many questions into me about my choice to study Physical Therapy. Why Physical Therapy? Why not Medicine? What is the difference? Is Physical Therapy really useful? Does it really have an effect? Why am I educated this way? How should a proper Physical Therapy curriculum be built? What should be the subjects presented and the way they should be presented by the lecturers?

So, I decided to put all of these thoughts on a piece of paper and start a small research. The results of this research are presented in this presentation.

I am not suggesting something specific or something that is 100% correct. I just believe that there must be a continuous on how such educational programs should be built based on research and scientific knowledge.

This is what I tried to do and open the space for discussion. Because I really believe in the strength and quality of the University's curriculum, how this is presented by the lecturers and the effect this has on the Physical Therapy student.

University of Alberta, Faculty of Rehab Medicine

The University of Alberta has developed a separate Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine for the following departments:

Department of Occupational Therapy

Department of Physical Therapy

Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology

Rehabilitation Science Degrees - MSc, PhD

Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR)

They promote the following in their very professional and full of useful context website:

"UAlberta is considered among the world’s leading public research- and teaching-intensive universities. As one of Canada’s top universities, we’re known for excellence across the humanities, sciences, creative arts, business, engineering, and health sciences".

Very interesting is also the Glen Sather Clinic they have developed.

Watch also this one:

Content Guidelines for Canadian University Programs

If you are interested in studying Physical Therapy or working as a PT in Canada, a country where Physical Therapy is very well developed, then you should definitely have a look at the website of the Canadian Council of University Programs.

Very useful documents to look through are the following:

National Physiotherapy Curriculum Guidelines

National Physiotherapy Clinical Education Guidelines

Essential Competency Profile for Physiotherapists in Canada

From their website:

"Physiotherapy is a dynamic health care profession with foundations in theory and research and specialized clinical expertise. Each of the 14 Canadian Universities offering physiotherapy education provide a professional, entry-level program and as of 2012 all will be at the Master's level. Within each of these programs, the curriculum is presented in a course-based Master's format. Ten programs are offered in English and 4 in French. Physiotherapy is a regulated profession meaning an active license or practice permit, from the provincial regulatory organization, is required. Successful completion of an accredited entry-level program allows the graduate to sit the national Physiotherapy Competency Examination (PCE). For most provinces, successful completion of the PCE is required for registration. Clinical Master's and/or thesis-based Master's and Doctorate programs are offered by most of the 14 Universities with entry-level programs. These are typically designed for physiotherapy and other healthcare clinicians wanting to pursue further academic education and generally follow a more traditional graduate education format. Physiotherapy specific and interdisciplinary post-graduate certifications and advanced practice courses are also available at many universities".

The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

The Centre for Evidence-based Medicine was established in Oxford as the first of several UK centres with the aim of promoting evidence-based health care. The CEBM provides free support and resources to doctors, clinicians, teachers and others interested in learning more about EBM. Our work falls into three categories: 

1. Research & development on the barriers to and improvement of the clinical practice of evidence

2. Training of students and clinicians in the principles and practice of evidence-based medicine

3. Training the trainers in how to teach EBM and how to do research and development in EBM

source: The Oxford's University Centre for Evidence-based Medicine