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What is Physiotherapy ?

The Physiotherapy Program bases its work on the law 528 of 1999, which in its academic conception has as an essential object of study the understanding and management of human body movement through the different stages of life.

Based on the national and international referents of the profession and in accordance with the Institutional policies, the purpose of the program is to train suitable and integral professionals by guaranteeing their development in the social, psychological and biological environments, in the different areas and fields of professional performance, in such a way that they respond to the training requirements at a regional, national and international level.

Physiotherapy
Title granted: Physiotherapist
Face-to-face modality
SNIES: 8093
Qualified registration: Resolution No 010139 of June 20, 2024. Valid for 7 years.
Value 2025: $5,985,511
City: Neiva
Duration: 10 semesters
Number of credits: 176

SNIES 8093

Qualified registration: Resolution No 010139 of June 20, 2024. Valid for 7 years.

High quality accreditation: Resolution No. 011223 July 12, 2024
Valid for 7 years

Professional profile:

Physiotherapy graduates from The María Cano University Foundation will be able to perform in the clinical-care, labor, physical activity, sports, project manager and developer, academic management and entrepreneurship scenarios.

Occupational profile

A graduated physiotherapist from The María Cano University Foundation is characterized by being a professional with social commitment, solidarity, humanistic, autonomous, ethical, critical, and responsible in the processes of transformation and construction of knowledge in their profession; being an agent of change in the community in order to achieve local, regional and national visibility.

A graduated from The María Cano University Foundation is also characterized by having the performance competencies in addressing issues related to human body movement from the individual to the community in the different stages on the life process, in all participation and professional interaction scenarios, fulfilling specific roles in favor of the quality of life of people through the diagnostic evaluation, health promotion, disease prevention, therapeutic intervention, rehabilitation, rehabilitation, habilitation, research and management.

Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs

Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant

To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:

  1. Fill out the online registration form
  2. Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $141.144
  3. At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:
  • Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
  • Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
  • A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
  • A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
  • Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.
  1. Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.

*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.

Diana María Salazar Rojas
National toll-free line: 018000 41 22 66
Phone: (8) – 874 64 53
(8) 874 64 57 ext.107
E-mail: diana.salazar@fumc.edu.co

Curriculum

Study plan

Semester

Level Subject Academic credits
1 Epistemology 2
1 Mathematics I 2
1 Communicative Competencies 2
1 Human development 2
1 Introduction to Physiotherapy 2
1 Introduction to Health 2
1 Morphophysiology I 3
1 María Cano Chair 2
TOTAL 17
Level Subject Academic credits
2 Physical 2
2 Mathematics II 2
2 Critical Reading 2
2 ICT Management 2
2 Biochemistry 3
2 Cellular Physiology and Pathology 3
2 Morphophysiology II 4
2 Developmental Psychology 2
TOTAL 20
Level Subject Academic credits
3 Statistics 2
3 Public health 4
3 Kinesiology and Biomechanics 4
3 Neurophysiology 4
3 Ethics 2
3 Geopolitics 2
TOTAL 18
Level Subject Academic credits
4 Elective I 2
4 Epidemiology 2
4 Research foundations 2
4 Intervention Strategies in Public Health and Mental Health 2
4 Physiology of physical activity and exercise 2
4 Evaluation methods 4
4 human body movement 2
4 Technology and Innovation in Health 2
TOTAL 18
Level Subject Academic credits
5 Projects formulation 3
5 Citizen Competencies 2
5 Disability and inclusion 2
5 Physiotherapy of Physical Activity and Exercise 3
5 Pathology and Musculoskeletal Evaluation 4
5 Pathology and Neuromuscular Evaluation 4
Total 18
Level Subject Academic credits
6 Project evaluation 3
6 Musculoskeletal intervention 4
6 Neuromuscular Intervention 4
6 Therapeutic Modalities 4
6 Security and health at work 3
6 Diagnostic aids 2
Total 20
Level Subject Academic credits
7 Therapeutic specialties 4
7 Pharmacology in physiotherapy 2
7 Deepening line I 2
7 Cardiovascular-pulmonary Pathology and Evaluation 4
7 Practice I community processes 4
7 Manual techniques 2
Total 18
Level Subject Academic credits
8 Elective II 2
8 Systemic diseases 2
8 Cardiovascular-pulmonary intervention 4
8 Deepening line II 3
8 Orthoses and prostheses 2
8 Practice II 4
Total 17
Level Subject Academic credits
9 Innovation and creativity 3
9 Health services administration 2
9 Deepening line III 3
9 Practice III 7
Total 15
Level Subject Academic credits
10 Entrepreneurship 3
10 Elective III 2
10 Practice IV 10
Total 15