Faculty of Physiotherapy of Pontevedra

Faculty of Physiotherapy of Pontevedra
Facultad de Fisioterapia de Pontevedra
	Faculty façade
Type	Public Faculty
Established	1993
Parent institution	University of Vigo
Affiliation	Pontevedra Campus
Students	224
Location	Pontevedra, Spain; 42°26′27.9″N 8°38′10.8″W / 42.441083°N 8.636333°W
Campus	A Xunqueira campus
Website	[1]

The Faculty of Physiotherapy of Pontevedra is a university faculty founded in 1998 in the Spanish city of Pontevedra, based on the campus of A Xunqueira, in the north of the city.

The faculty belongs to the Pontevedra Campus, integrated in the Galician University System and dependent on the University of Vigo. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Physiotherapy and Health Sciences.

History

The introduction of physiotherapy studies in Pontevedra was authorised in 1993 by Decree 192/1993, of 29 July, article 20, which integrated them into the newly created Faculty of Social Sciences of the city.^[2]

However, the establishment of the physiotherapy programme on the Pontevedra university campus was finally effective in October 1995, when teaching began at the Faculty of Social Sciences.^[3]

In 1998, the Regional Ministry of Education created the University School of Physiotherapy of Pontevedra by Decree 346/1998 of 20 November, in its article 7, separating the teaching of physiotherapy from the Faculty of Social Sciences in which it was housed until then.^[4] The courses were temporarily held at the School of Forestry Engineers until 2000, when the new building^[3] designed by the architect José Ramón Rúa Rodríguez was inaugurated on the A Xunqueira campus, which was to become its definitive headquarters.^[5]^[6]

In 2009 a new degree programme was approved and in 2011 the University School of Physiotherapy became the Faculty of Physiotherapy by Decree 14/2011 of 3 February, as stated in its second article.^[7]

Programmes

The Faculty of Physiotherapy in Pontevedra offers Bachelor's and master's degree courses in the field of physiotherapy.

Bachelor's degree in physiotherapy
Master in Therapeutic Practice in Physiotherapy,^[8] for which 20 places are available.^[9]^[10]

Activities

The Faculty has agreements with various private centres and with the Galician Health Service for clinical training. It also has agreements with several European countries to host Erasmus students, as well as with 6 Spanish universities and specific agreements with Latin American universities.^[5]