Aim
Our aim is to meet students/teachers needs by responding to today's and tomorrow's professional challenges with curriculum adaptations and recommendations.
- Bring to ENPHE professional issues that need to be addressed at the educational level
- Currently working on the topic Direct Access and how organize education for undergraduate and post-graduate level
Members
Co-Facilitators:
- Jonathan Stammers
- Marika Heiskanen
Members:
- Lalit Emmanuel Braem
- Kenneth Chance-Larsen
(Available positions needed for more diversity)
Work in Progress
The WG is establishing a draft curriculum focusing on the skills and activities to be achieved and assessed to facilitate students' preparedness and readiness for physiotherapy direct access. We aim to support EQF-6/7 students on the path to secure, efficient and autonomous practice. We believe that translating these skills into entrustable professional activities can facilitate their implementation and bridge theory and practice.
- Collaboration with the Facilitation of Learning WG.
- A joint effort from both groups is needed to dive deeper into clinical reasoning and reflective practice in undergraduate education.
- The aim is to provide robust criteria for clinical reasoning pratice and assessement during the curriculum, considering that all future physiotherapists will need to be prepared for direct access contexts of practice.
Developments
Currently exploring the contours of the work that was presented in the last inspirational session at the ENPHE Forum 2025, in Differdange, Luxembourg.
Outputs
ESCO Report - ENPHE Recommendations April 2017
Definitions and competencies for Direct Access
Direct Access Definition ENPHE 2018
The Enphe: European Qualification Framework for Life Long Learning in Physiotherapy Final Report
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