undergraduate
Physiotherapy
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about the
Program
The physiotherapy program belongs to the field of health, whose knowledge has evolved through deepening and validation, to respond to the challenges posed by different population groups at different stages of human development, to contribute to improving the quality of life of people and communities, by promoting and preventing movement disturbances.
For the School of Physiotherapy of the UIS the concept of quality is expressed through the mission, purposes, and objectives according to the characteristics and properties relevant to the formation of the physical therapist, related to the context, and the need for change required by society. The program’s quality paradigm is based on the strengths and opportunities of the Institution, Faculty, School, and Context; which is evident in the training processes and the quality of the graduate professional.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 690 | Qualified Registration: MEN N.° 013115 of July 21, 2021, validity 7 years.
DEGREE:
Physical therapist
DuraTiOn:
10 semesters
Education LEVEL:
Undergraduate
ModaliTY:
In-person
CAMPUS:
Mesón de los Búcaros, Bucaramanga
APPLICANT
Profile
The aspiring Physiotherapy must be characterized by having:
- Excellent interpersonal relationships.
- A sense of improvement and desire for constant updating.
- Self-confidence.
- A permanent provision of service and collaboration.
- Ease of adaptation to various situations.
- Interdisciplinary work capacity and interaction with groups.
- A good physical condition.
GRADUATE
Profile
The Physiotherapist of the UIS is a professional with a great humanistic, ethical and critical sense, open to the change and progress of science, committed to the political, social, cultural and economic development of the country, who bases his actions on integral training, which allows him to develop competences in the cognitive, subjective and social dimensions.
It exercises its specific field of professional action, autonomously, through the multidimensional theoretical foundation around its object of study, human movement, as well as the definition of its models of evaluation, diagnosis and physical intervention. It maintains an open attitude towards research and interdisciplinary work that allows it to validate and generate the knowledge and development of socially significant alternatives of action.
His professional practice is oriented to the design, execution, direction, and control of programs or projects of Physiotherapeutic intervention for the promotion of health, kinetic well-being, the prevention of deficiencies, disabilities, and changes in physical condition in individuals and communities at risk, the recovery of systems essential for their maintenance and participation in interdisciplinary processes of enablement and integral rehabilitation.
LABOR
Fiel
Physiotherapy is a multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary field of professional action, focused on the relationship between body movement and its implications in human function.
Performance Areas
According to Law 528 of 1999, regulating the professional exercise of the physical therapist, actions are defined for the design, implementation, direction, and control of programs or projects for the promotion of health and kinetic well-being, the prevention of deficiencies, functional limitations, disabilities and changes in physical condition, in individuals and communities at risk, the recovery of systems essential for human movement and participation in interdisciplinary processes of enablement and integral rehabilitation.
Promotion of Health, Well-Being and Physical Condition and Primary Prevention: The physical therapist at this level develops primary prevention and promotion activities, aimed at the various general population ethereal groups, as well as specific groups, to evaluate and educate the community about the protective factors of health and the various risk factors that predispose to alterations in human physics kinetics. These programs included community projection, occupational health, and programs aimed at high-performance populations.
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Secondary prevention: The Physiotherapist performs the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of movement disturbances, which guide decision-making for therapeutic intervention. It uses procedures aimed at enabling and retrieving functionality in the individual, based on internationally validated methods in the field of human physics kinetics.
Tertiary prevention: In this case, the physiotherapist is part of the interdisciplinary team involved in the rehabilitation of disabled people, through a continuous and coordinated process that proposes for their integration or reintegration into the family, social, and/or work environment.
Other areas of professional intervention
Administration: The Physiotherapist is in the capacity to manage physiotherapeutic services in the Social Security, Health, Labor, and Education sectors, among others. They can also direct and manage academic programs for the training of physiotherapists and other related professionals. They are also able to advise and participate in the design and formulation of policies in Health and Physiotherapy and in the projection of professional practice.
Teaching: The Physical Therapist educates intervention subjects for the adoption of healthy lifestyles and to teach movement. They can also develop in teaching in Physiotherapy Faculties and Programs and related programs.
Research: In this area, the physical therapist can design, execute and direct scientific research, discipline or interdisciplinary, aimed at the renewal or construction of knowledge that contributes to the understanding of its object of study and the development of its professional work, from the perspective of the natural and social sciences.
OUR
Accreditations
Resolution No. 015876 of August 25, 2021 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional with a validity of 6 years.
More Info: Click Here
APPLICANT
Profile
The aspiring Physiotherapy should be characterized by having:
- Excellent interpersonal relationships.
- Sense of improvement and desire for constant updating.
- Security itself.
- Permanent provision of service and collaboration.
- Ease of adaptation to various situations.
- Interdisciplinary work capacity and interaction with groups.
- Good physical condition.
GRADUATE
Profile
The Physiotherapist of the UIS is a professional with a great humanistic, ethical and critical sense, open to the change and progress of science, committed to the political, social, cultural and economic development of the country, who bases his actions on integral training, which allows him to develop competences in the cognitive, subjective and social dimensions.
It exercises its specific field of professional action, autonomously, through the multidimensional theoretical foundation around its object of study, human movement, as well as the definition of its own models of evaluation, diagnosis and physical intervention. It maintains an open attitude towards research and interdisciplinary work that allows it to validate and generate the knowledge and development of socially significant alternatives of action.
His professional practice is oriented to the design, execution, direction and control of programs or projects of Physiotherapeutic intervention for: the promotion of health, kinetic well-being, the prevention of deficiencies, disabilities and changes in physical condition in individuals and communities at risk, the recovery of systems essential for their maintenance and participation in interdisciplinary processes of enablement and integral rehabilitation.
Labor
Field
Physiotherapy is a multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary field of professional action, focused on the relationship between body movement and its implications in human function.
Performance Areas
According to Law 528 of 1999, regulating the professional exercise of the physical therapist, actions are defined for the design, implementation, direction, and control of programs or projects for the promotion of health and kinetic well-being, the prevention of deficiencies, functional limitations, disabilities and changes in physical condition, in individuals and communities at risk, the recovery of systems essential for human movement and participation in interdisciplinary processes of enablement and integral rehabilitation.
Promotion of Health, Well-Being and Physical Condition and Primary Prevention: The physical therapist at this level develops primary prevention and promotion activities, aimed at the various general population ethereal groups, as well as specific groups, in order to evaluate and educate the community about the protective factors of health and the various risk factors that predispose to alterations in human physics kinetics. These programs included community projection, occupational health, and programs aimed at high-performance populations.
Read more
Secondary prevention: The Physiotherapist performs the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of movement disturbances, which guide decision-making for therapeutic intervention. It uses procedures aimed at enabling and retrieving functionality in the individual, based on internationally validated methods in the field of human physicokinetics.
Tertiary prevention: In this case, the physiotherapist is part of the interdisciplinary team involved in the rehabilitation of disabled people, through a continuous and coordinated process that proposes for their integration or reintegration into the family, social, and/or work environment.
Other areas of professional intervention
Administration: The Physiotherapist is in the capacity to manage physiotherapeutic services in the Social Security, Health, Labour, and Education sectors, among others. It can also direct and manage academic programs for the training of physiotherapists and other related professionals. He is also able to advise and participate in the design and formulation of policies in Health and Physiotherapy and in the projection of professional practice.
Teaching: The Physical Therapist educates intervention subjects for the adoption of healthy lifestyles and to teach movement. He can also develop teaching in Physiotherapy Faculties and Programs and related programs.
Research: In this area, the physical therapist can design, execute and direct scientific research, discipline, or interdisciplinary, aimed at the renewal or construction of knowledge that contributes to the understanding of its object of study and the development of its professional work, from the perspective of the natural and social sciences.
OUR
Accreditations
Resolution No. 015876 of August 25, 2021 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional with a validity of 6 years.
More Info: Click Here
SEA UIS
Supports
Academic
Curriculum
Code: 24948 Credits: 0 - University Life And Culture
Code: 23427 Credits: 3 - Language Workshop
Code: 23423 Credits: 1 - Physical And Sports Culture
Code: 22322 Credits: 1 - Introduction To Physiotherapy
Code: 22321 Credits: 1 - History Of Science
Code: 20422 Credits: 6 - Biosciences I
Code: 00002 Credits: 3 - Optional Subject
Code: 23424 Credits: 4 - English I
Code: 22356 Credits: 5 - Biosciences II
Code: 22325 Credits: 1 - Human Development I
Code: 22324 Credits: 1 - Man And Movement
Code: 22323 Credits: 7 - General Morphophysiology
Code: 23582 Credits: 5 - Fundamentals Of Neurophysiology
Code: 23425 Credits: 4 - English II
Code: 22334 Credits: 3 - Disaster Prevention
Code: 22327 Credits: 4 - Fundamentals Of Biomechanics I
Code: 22326 Credits: 1 - Human Development II
Code: 21957 Credits: 2 - Mental Health
Code: 23583 Credits: 2 - Health And Community
Code: 22336 Credits: 4 - Movement Pathology
Code: 22332 Credits: 1 - Professional Ethics
Code: 22331 Credits: 6 - Fundamentals Of Biomechanics II
Code: 22330 Credits: 3 - Physiology Of Exercise
Code: 00002 Credits: 3 - Optional Subject
Code: 23584 Credits: 6 - Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
Code: 22339 Credits: 4 - Research I
Code: 22338 Credits: 3 - Physical Conditioning
Code: 22337 Credits: 2 - Administration in Physiotherapy
Code: 22335 Credits: 6 - Physiotherapeutic Diagnosis
Code: 23587 Credits: 3 - Body Control
Code: 23586 Credits: 4 - Modality Therapeutic Exercise I
Code: 23585 Credits: 4 - Physical Modalities I
Code: 22344 Credits: 3 - Pharmacology
Code: 22343 Credits: 4 - Research II
Code: 23589 Credits: 4 - Physical Modalities II
Code: 23588 Credits: 3 - Modality Therapeutic Exercise II
Code: 22348 Credits: 5 - Promotion and Prevention in Physiotherapy
Code: 22347 Credits: 4 - Seminar I
Code: 22345 Credits: 5 - Function and Disability
Code: 23590 Credits: 12 - Physiotherapeutic Intervention
Code: 22352 Credits: 4 - Seminar II
Code: 22354 Credits: 17 - Service Teaching Practice I
Code: 22355 Credits: 17 - Service Teaching Practice II
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
|
1st semester 2023 
* Subject to demand |
|
Collection opening 2022 Oct 14 Collection closing 2022 Dec 2 |
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Registration opening 2022 Oct 18 Registration closing 2022 Dec 6 Admission results 2022 Dec 15 |
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Additional requirements
(Si no hay borrar esta y la línea anterior)
Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS
Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
1st semester
2023
* Subject to demand
Bucaramanga
Collection opening2022 Oct 14
Collection closing
2022 Dec 2
Registration opening
2022 Oct 18
Registration closing
2022 Dec 6
Admission results
2022 Dec 15
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS
Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
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Phone: +57 (607) 6344000
Extension: 3147 / 3132
Direct phone: +57 (607) 6358582
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UIS Mesón de los Búcaros
Bucaramanga, Santander
Av. Quebrada Seca #28-49
Facultad de Salud.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
School of Physiotherapy
Phone: +57 (607) 6344000
Extension: 3147 / 3132
Direct phone: +57 (607) 6358582
escftp@uis.edu.co
UIS Mesón de los Búcaros
Bucaramanga, Santander
Av. Quebrada Seca #28-49
Facultad de Salud.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
School of Physiotherapy
Phone: +57 (607) 6344000
Extension: 3147 / 3132
Direct phone: +57 (607) 6358582
escftp@uis.edu.co
UIS Mesón de los Búcaros
Bucaramanga, Santander
Av. Quebrada Seca #28-49
Facultad de Salud.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
