BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy with Foundation Year

This module will help you discover where you fit into the big picture of both university life and the wider world. You'll be introduced to the differences between university, school, and workplace training. Here, you will have the opportunity to extend and deepen your understanding in ways that are both disciplined and limitless. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and guided online learning, you'll explore the relationship between your studies and the world around you. You will examine how various disciplines, including your own, approach contemporary challenges such as building sustainable futures and managing the opportunities and risks of Artificial Intelligence.

These are bite size modules designed to help you settle in and obtain core skills such as critical thinking, digital literacy, and sustainability. You’ll engage with contemporary, thought-provoking topics and issues whilst maximising your chance of success right from the start of your studies. Your Journey to Success at CCCU is compulsory and you then choose three more of these modules (from a choice of 8) in your first year.

This module is designed to ensure a smooth transition into higher education, emphasising the importance of well-being for successful study. You will be introduced to university life and supported in developing the personal and academic skills essential for degree-level studies. The module covers learning theory and helps develop your information literacy, written communication, and digital skills. It will also familiarise you with key higher education terminology, uncovering the hidden aspects of university life, and increasing your awareness of relevant processes and procedures. You will also be encouraged to explore the wider determinants of health and well-being, raising your awareness of the social and environmental factors that impact everyone’s health.

This module aims to nurture compassion, strengthen interpersonal connections, and enhance adaptability. You will be introduced to the development of professional communication skills, which will continue to evolve throughout your degree studies and throughout your professional career. You will be supported in respecting cultural differences and practices, enhancing your ability to communicate with a range of audiences within the health and social care sector. This exploration will equip you with knowledge and strategies to protect your well-being as you navigate professional relationships throughout your studies and career.

This module provides a scientific foundation for your future studies. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of human anatomy and physiology, with a focus on the main body systems. You will explore the structures of the human body and physiological processes, gaining an understanding of how these systems interact and develop across the lifespan. You will be supported in building your confidence and competence in applying your numeracy skills to real-world scenarios, preparing you for further studies in health and social Care.

This module is an orientation to foundational human sciences, normal anatomy and physiology, and the major theories and frameworks linked with a biopsychosocial conceptualisation of health. You will gain a foundation on which profession-specific content will develop, focusing increasingly on abnormal human sciences in common and then more complex and rare conditions.

The module will be focused on the development of academic and professional skills for transition to higher education. Through a blended learning approach, you will be guided in how to develop your ability to write and communicate according to academic standards. A wide range of different activities will be used to assess and develop skills including reading, writing, information technology, library searching and problem-solving.  

This module explores the concept and practice of inter-professional working. You will be given opportunities to reflect on developing a professional identity as an allied healthcare professional (AHP) before exploring the roles and responsibilities of the range of other health and social care professionals and organisations that support care in community and hospital settings.

In this module, you will learn about the principles of a physiotherapy assessment including both subjective and objective information, ensuring a holistic assessment process (biological, psychological and social factors). Your learning will be facilitated by cases for simple musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory and neurological conditions. You will also learn about treatment options, using clinical reasoning from the assessment process to structure treatment appropriately.

This module aims to expose students to physiotherapy practice, the multi-disciplinary healthcare environment and provides the opportunity to apply their classroom learning to clinical practice. You will develop your communication, interviewing and clinical reasoning skills in a simulated and in a practice environment.

This module will advance your knowledge and understanding of the scientific method. You'll learn how to apply systematic approaches to identifying, critiquing and applying the evidence-base for practice. The module will also link policy and theoretical frameworks for sustainable allied health professional practice to the use of health and care technologies that work, and the de-adoption of interventions that do not, and the complexities of closing the gaps between evidence and practice. 

In this module you'll revisit, at a deeper level, key body systems, their anatomy and physiology, and you'll explore some newer systems. You'll develop your knowledge of the science, principles and language of movement in the musculoskeletal system and how this relates to the nervous, digestive and endocrine systems. There is a mixture of lectures, seminars and practical work.

This module aims to extend your understanding of the wider professional, personal, theoretical and contextual influences on assessment and decision making and the use of outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of interventions. The module will build on foundation skills to advance understanding and acquisition of further skills required by a physiotherapist, to effectively and efficiently manage and treat service-users with a range of conditions that may be met in practice.

This module reinforces the importance of the physiotherapy contribution to health promotion and illness prevention. Attention will be paid to both individual-level interventions embedded within routine practice, in additional to physiotherapists’ engagement in service and system-level of initiatives, such as exercise  prescription. 

This module aims to build on the students’ previous experience of practice learning and cement safe practice within the profession specific ethics. Medical communication and interviewing skills will further be honed and built on from the previous Level 4. 

This module is linked to the leadership pillar of professional practice, providing you with the opportunity to link the improvement of health and care services to your personal and professional leadership development. As an interprofessional module, you will be able to work with students from other professional groups to bring profession-specific and transferable skills and insights to resolve real-world challenges. 

The physiotherapy profession is ever evolving and new practices are developed often driven by technological advances. This module will enhance your awareness and critical evaluation of technological advances and alternatives to ‘mainstream’ therapies and approaches currently available, in relation to incorporating them into your practice. It will also support ongoing development of skills for workload management.

This module aims to build your understanding of the complex needs and requirements of service users with complex or multiple conditions, and how physiotherapists can work as part of multidisciplinary or multiagency teams to meet wider service user needs.

The aim of this module is for you to integrate your knowledge and experiences within simulated practice and the final placements (3a and 3b) to provide evidence you are fit for future autonomous practice and to meet the HCPC Standards of Proficiency (SOPs) for Physiotherapy. The SOPs require you to draw on and apply a range of knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme to inform and sustain safe, competent and high quality professional practice in context.