Aim of the training: We aim to train physiotherapists who are able to participate with full responsibility, at all levels of social care, in the work related to prevention, medication, physiotherapy care and rehabilitation, and who can rely on their knowledge about protecting the health of the individual, the family, the community and society, and about restoring health in general. They are also expected to acquire sufficient knowledge to continue studies in the second cycle of training (at master’s level).

Graduates are able to perform physiotherapy activities on their own on the basis of medical diagnosis in the field of prevention, medical treatment and rehabilitation. Furthermore, they can:

• register the status of, and document locomotor diseases,
• make plans for physiotherapy and rehabilitation; implement rehabilitation programmes in various clinical areas,
• apply therapeutic procedures in the treatment of locomotor diseases (rheumatology, orthopaedics, traumatology),
• apply curative and preventive procedures in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases,
• apply curative procedures in the treatment of neurological diseases,
• apply physiotherapy in other clinical areas such as oncology, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynaecology and general surgery

Semmelweis University