UFCSPA - Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre

: Última Atualização: 12 Dezembro 2024

Accreditation: Ordinance n. 664, of December 12th, 2013

Degree: Bachelor's

Modality: On-campus

Shift: full time

Vacancies: 40

Total workload: 4,549 hours

Program duration: 10 semesters

Minimum: 10 semesters

Maximum: 18 semesters

Graduate's competences and skills

UFCSPA’s Physical Therapy Program graduates are professionals with a generalist, humanistic, critical, creative, communicative, reflective, collaborative and ethical profile. They are able to work at all levels of health care, with different degrees of complexity and as part of interdisciplinary teams, based on the best scientific evidence, intellectual rigor and technological advances. The main goal of a Physical Therapy graduate is to achieve the functional health of both the individual and the community, through the contextualized analysis of the biopsychosocial and environmental aspects surrounding the health-disease process. It is also to respect bioethical and cultural principles and the demographic and socioeconomic realities of individuals and communities, committing to public policies. Graduates should be able to explore human movement in all its forms of expression and potential, whether in pathological or kinetic-functional alterations, or in their psychological and organic repercussions. They serve as health promoters and educators in Physical Therapy for individuals, families and communities.

Curriculum

Semester	Axis	Course	Workload (hours)
1	Basic Training	General Anatomy	60
		Biophysics	45
		Biochemistry	60
		Microbiology	30
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Computing in Health	30
		Introduction to Physical Therapy	30
		Seminar in Primary Health Care	60
	Human Sciences	Reading and Text Interpretation in English I	30
		Elective I	30
		Elective II	30
		Mentoring I	15
2	Basic Training	Histology and Embryology	60
		Anatomy of the Locomotor System	90
		Human Physiology I	60
		Human Genetics	45
		Immunology	45
		Parasitology and Mycology	30
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Physical Therapy Clinical Symptomatology I	30
	Human Sciences	Reading and Text Interpretation in English II	30
	Human Sciences	Social Responsibility	45
		Mentoring II	15
3	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Palpatory Anatomy	45
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Physical Therapy Clinical Symptomatology II	60
	Human Sciences	Biostatistics	30
		Public Health	60
		Outreach and Extension Methodology	45
	Basic Training	Biomechanics	45
		Kinesiology	60
		Human Physiology II	60
		General Pathology	60
		Mentoring III	15
4	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Kinesiotherapy	90
		Human Aging	45
		Health Promotion in Physical Therapy	30
		Child and Adolescent Health	45
	Basic Training	Basic Pharmacology	45
	Basic Training	Exercise Physiology	45
	Human Sciences	Epidemiology	45
		Education and Health	30
		Academic Writing	30
		Mentoring IV	15
5	Human Sciences	Elective III	30
	Human Sciences	Procedures in Patient Care	30
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Electrothermal and Phototherapy	60
		Ethics and Professional Practices in Physical Therapy	30
		Pediatric and Neonatal Physical Therapy	75
		Geriatric Physical Therapy	75
		Scientific Methodology	30
		Diagnostic Imaging in Physical Therapy	30
		Manual Therapy Techniques	60
6	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Hydrotherapy	60
		Dermato-functional Physical Therapy	60
		Women’s Health Physical Therapy	60
		Occupational Health Physical Therapy	60
		Neurofunctional Physical Therapy for Children and Adolescents	60
		Orthopedic and Trauma Physical Therapy I	60
	Human Sciences	Nutrition and Health	30
	Human Sciences	Psychology	45
7	Human Sciences	Entrepreneurship and Marketing	30
	Human Sciences	Management in Physical Therapy	30
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Cardiovascular Physical Therapy I	60
		Amputation, Orthotic and Prosthetic Rehabilitation	30
		Neurofunctional Physical Therapy for Adults	60
		Orthopedic and Trauma Physical Therapy II	60
		Pelvic Physical Therapy	60
		Respiratory Physical Therapy I	60
		Research Project in Physical Therapy	30
8	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Cardiovascular Physical Therapy II	60
		Physical Therapy in Intensive Care Units	60
		Sports Physical Therapy	60
		Oncologic Physical Therapy	60
		Respiratory Physical Therapy II	60
		Physical Therapy of Rheumatic Diseases	60
		Integrative Seminar in Physical Therapy	30
		Senior Thesis I	15
9	Professional Practice	Mandatory Supervised Internship – Outpatient Clinic I	120
		Mandatory Supervised Internship – Community Health Care I	120
		Mandatory Supervised Internship – Hospital I	120
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Senior Thesis II	15
10	Professional Practice	Mandatory Supervised Internship – Outpatient Clinic II	120
		Mandatory Supervised Internship – Community Health Care II	120
		Mandatory Supervised Internship – Hospital II	120
		Mandatory Supervised Internship in Optional Location	183
	Knowledge Integration and Professional Training	Senior Thesis II	15
Mandatory Courses			3,330
Elective Courses			90
Extracurricular Activities			226
Internships			903
Total Workload			4,549

* Curriculum approved in 2023.