PT Around the World
In what two countries do you receive a license instead of a doctorate degree?
What is Argentina and Japan?
What country allows indivduals to go straight from high school to earn their Bachelors of Applied Science? How long is the program?
What is Australia and 4 years?
What European country offers a specialization in mental health physiotherapy?
What is Switzerland?
The online portal for submitting GPA, recommendation letters, observation hours, and essays.
What is PTCAS- Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service?
Compared to Germany, this neighboring country allows physiotherapists to diagnose and treat patients as autonomous practitioners, even in public healthcare settings
What is Switzerland?
Unlike the US, aspiring physical therapists in this country typically begin their training in PT directly after completing high school. And how long is their PT schooling? (Name 2)
What is Japan and 3–4 years?
What is Europe and 3-4 years?
Over half of EU member states allow this type of patient access to physiotherapists—bypassing a physician.
What is self-referral?
This type of payment allows patients to avoid insurance and pay out of pocket.
What is Private Pay?
In what country is the tuition fee around $0?
What is Argentina?
What country takes the Kokka Shiken? And what is the Kokka Shiken?
What is Japan and the national examination that Japanese students must pass to become licensed physical therapists?
Physiotherapists working in primary care have been first contact practitioners since 1976
What is Australia?
Unlike the U.S.'s APTA, which is a member-based association, this European regional organization includes 39 national physiotherapy associations.
What is the ER-WCPT (European Region of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy)?