1st Year of Bachelor’s Studies
Student’s Examination Skills:
Carries out a structured case history, understands medical documentation, and can explain the relevance of individual items.
Performs a basic kinesiological examination: posture and gait assessment, muscle strength testing (including functional tests), range of motion measurement, shortened muscle testing, and general hypermobility assessment.
Identifies the patient’s main functional limitations and, in cooperation with the supervisor, formulates the examination conclusion.
Student’s Therapeutic Skills:
Performs basic nursing-physiotherapy tasks: respiratory physiotherapy, bed mobility, positioning, verticalization training, passive and active movements (including conditioning exercises), and applies individual or group therapy focused on maintaining range of motion.
Under the supervisor’s guidance, selects appropriate therapeutic goals for a given treatment session.
Applies basic analytical approaches and uses physical therapy modalities as instructed by the supervisor.
Expected Role of the Supervisor:
Guides the student in formulating the examination conclusion and choosing therapeutic goals.
Monitors the accuracy of techniques and the overall organization of the treatment session.
Requires the student to reflect on the effect of the therapy and briefly present it.
2nd Year of Bachelor’s Studies
Student’s Examination and Clinical Reasoning Skills:
Works independently with medical documentation, identifies key information.
Communicates with the physiotherapist and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
Performs a comprehensive patient examination, identifies functional disorders, and sets therapeutic goals based on their own findings.
Conducts diagnosis and therapy of functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system and performs joint play assessment.
Student’s Therapeutic Skills:
Applies a wide range of physiotherapeutic techniques: functional and conditioning training, respiratory physiotherapy, muscle energy techniques, facilitation and inhibition methods, soft tissue techniques, and treatment within the reflex massage framework; performs peripheral and spinal joint mobilizations and uses physical therapy modalities.
Expected Role of the Supervisor:
Monitors the student’s ability to identify relevant information in documentation and record it correctly.
Evaluates the formulation of professional conclusions, choice of goals, and overall structure of the therapeutic session.
Observes the practical execution of therapeutic techniques, their safety, and adequacy.
Requires the student to summarize the session’s effect clearly, including patient instruction and proposal for self-therapy.
1st Year of Master’s Studies
Overall Profile and Expected Competencies of the Student:
Possesses the knowledge and practical skills of a bachelor’s graduate and is able to independently use all basic examination and therapeutic methods.
Works with patients at an advanced level, including self-therapy planning, communication management, and patient education on therapeutic goals and procedures.
Student’s Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process:
Deepens clinical reasoning skills and actively integrates differential diagnosis into the interpretation of findings.
Analyzes therapy effects and adjusts short-term and long-term plans based on both objective and subjective parameters.
Can explain their approach, choice of techniques, and therapeutic goals to both the supervisor and the patient.
Expected Role of the Supervisor:
Encourages critical thinking, development of differential reasoning, and independent decision-making.
Assesses the quality of complex clinical reasoning, integration of various examination methods, and appropriate selection of therapeutic strategies.
Contact Persons – Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University
CWP (Clinical Work Placement) Coordinator:
Mgr. Karolína Štumbauerová – karolina.stumbauerova@ftvs.cuni.cz
The coordinator is an academic staff member responsible for the methodological supervision of clinical placements; provides instructions for the course of the CWP, determines required documentation, approves the selection of clinical sites, handles organizational and professional inquiries, and organizes final evaluations in SIS.
CWP Administration:
Sandra Kürstenová – sandra.kurstenova@ftvs.cuni.cz
The administrative coordinator provides organizational and technical support during placements; manages forms, processes documentation, oversees administrative communication, and maintains information regarding clinical facilities.
