Physiotherapy (PhD.)

Physiotherapy study program III. the level of higher education reflects classification level 8 of the National Qualifications Framework, which is a tool for classifying qualifications according to a set of criteria for the specified levels of education achieved.

The physiotherapy study program ensures that students get:

• general knowledge at the level of assessment, professional and methodological knowledge from several areas of the field or practice, serving as a basis for innovation and originality in practice, research or in the artistic field necessary for designing research and development, or development of the field of professional practice
• cognitive knowledge - create and formulate new hypotheses, judgments and strategies for the further development of a scientific or work area, evaluate theories, concepts and innovations
• practical skills - apply own findings resulting from theoretical analysis and own scientific research of a complex and/or interdisciplinary nature, design, verify and implement new research and work procedures
• competences - responsibility, independence, social competences by critical, independent and analytical thinking in unpredictable, changing - conditions - taking into account social, scientific and ethical aspects when directing - the further development of the company - the ability to present the results of research and development in front of the professional community - responsibility for leadership in a given scientific or professional field - by planning one's own development and the development of society in the context of scientific and technical progress

A graduate of the study field of Physiotherapy - 3rd degree (PhD.) can independently work scientifically in this field. He masters the methodology of scientific work, knows and knows how to use scientific methods in solving scientific problems in the field. Can identify and define a scientific problem and is able to develop a research project to solve it.

Knows and controls the parts of the methodology and technology of scientific work: processing a research study on a given scientific problem through all kinds of information sources, knows how to define the goals of a research project, can design and use a system of methodologies for solving a scientific problem, knows how to practically carry out research procedures when solving a project, can select and use adequate statistical methods when evaluating the results of research work, can critically evaluate the results of scientific work and compare them with relevant data from domestic and world literature, can process and rationally document the results of their research activity, theoretically and practically master the methodologies of publishing the results of their research in the form of a lecture, poster, short information, abstract and publications in extenso in the Slovak and English/German languages ​​as well as in electronic form. He masters modern methods of obtaining scientific information, knows how to work with scientific and professional literature, can adequately cite literary sources in the text of lectures and publications published in the press. With his research work, he significantly participates in the development of the study field of Physiotherapy.

The graduate possesses a whole range of skills, masters the comprehensive description, analysis and evaluation of physiotherapy conclusions, masters the basic indications, contraindications and applications of physiotherapy, balneological, therapeutic rehabilitation and electrotherapeutic procedures. He masters evidence-based physiotherapy - in clinical kinesiology and pathokinesiology, in functional diagnostics of the locomotion system, in clinical methods of kinesiotherapy, in physical therapy in reconditioning-relaxation exercises and ergotherapy. He can implement basic functional diagnostics and a rehabilitation program from the point of view of occupational rehabilitation.

The basic goal of doctoral studies is to form a new generation group of professionally prepared creative scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers, capable not only of special but also of multidisciplinary reflection in the issue of Physiotherapy.

Educational outcomes in the physiotherapist study program

Theoretical knowledge (3rd grade)

Graduate of the study field of Physiotherapy (3rd degree):

• has theoretical knowledge at the level of the current state of knowledge in the field of Physiotherapy together with a connection to associated and related theoretical scientific disciplines to the extent necessary to solve the given scientific problem
• is capable of independent scientific work and brings his own solutions to problems in the field of Physiotherapy
• masters research methods in the field of Physiotherapy
• controls the issues of the core of physiotherapy, including kinesiology and pathokinesiology, functional diagnosis of the locomotor system, methods of kinesiotherapy, balneotherapy, climatotherapy, hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy, phototherapy and other parts of the field to the extent necessary for clinical applied research.

Additional knowledge, skills and abilities (Level 3)

A graduate of the Physiotherapy department (3rd degree) will acquire:

• principles of scientific work, scientific problem formulation
• legal aspects of physical therapy research
• ethical and social aspects of scientific work
• the ability to present the results of scientific research in publication and lecture form
• development of the Physiotherapy study program and its contribution to practice
• necessary knowledge for the performance of pedagogical activities at the faculty in the case of full-time doctoral students
• the ability to contribute with original research to expanding the boundaries of scientific knowledge through the realization of an extensive set of works, some of which are worthy of peer-reviewed publication at the national or international level (dissertability - the student proves that he/she knows how to work scientifically by making several of his/her original scientific works papers are accepted for publication after review/assessment by a highly specialized scientific community)
• critical analysis ability to evaluate and synthesize new and complex concepts
• the ability to communicate one's area of ​​expertise with colleagues, the wider scientific community, and the lay public
• the ability to support technological, social or cultural progress in a knowledge-based society in an academic and professional context.

Performance of the profession of physiotherapist, scientific-pedagogical workers, capable not only of special, but also of multidisciplinary reflection in the issue of Physiotherapy.

Admission conditions for FULL-TIME and PART-TIME forms of study.

Doctoral studies consist of a study part and a scientific part. The study plan is drawn up by the supervisor and submitted for approval to the trade union committee. The study part of the doctoral studies mainly consists of lectures, seminars and individual study of professional literature necessary from the point of view of the focus of the dissertation. The scientific part of the doctoral study consists of the individual or team scientific work of the doctoral student, which is related to the topic of the dissertation. The scientific part of the doctoral studies is professionally guaranteed by the supervisor.

Part of the doctoral studies in full-time form is the performance of pedagogical activity or other professional activity related to pedagogical activity in the range of no more than four hours per week on average for the academic year in which the teaching takes place. If a doctoral student applies for a dissertation topic listed by an external educational institution, he performs the scientific part of the doctoral studies and the obligations of the study part of the doctoral studies agreed with the university in this external educational institution. The university concludes an individual agreement with an external educational institution on the doctoral studies of a doctoral student. It deals with issues related to the work of a doctoral student in an external educational institution, including the payment of the costs of an external educational institution.