Study the Doctor of Physiotherapy with us
Your journey to becoming a physiotherapist starts with the clinical, research, and professional work-integrated learning opportunities you’ll gain at the University of Sydney.
Open to graduates from all disciplines, our Doctor of Physiotherapy is a three-year professional qualification that includes advanced clinical training and streamlined entry requirements.
Thinking of studying physiotherapy? This is the degree for you.
Our postgraduate physiotherapy degree is a three-year qualification that provides advanced clinical training, allowing our graduates to enter the industry with extensive skills and the professional confidence to better treat patients.
This degree has replaced the Master of Physiotherapy.
There are no prerequisite knowledge requirements. When applying for the Master of Physiotherapy, applicants had to meet five separate criteria: these are no longer required.
To be eligible to apply for the Doctor of Physiotherapy, you need an undergraduate degree and a minimum Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of 70 over 100 (credit average).
For more details regarding admission criteria, visit the course page
The Doctor of Physiotherapy involves a better model of clinical experience, enabling better integration and ongoing development of theoretical knowledge, clinical skills, and clinical reasoning.
The new curriculum breaks down the barriers and integrate the clinical areas of physiotherapy practice using a programmatic assessment of learning approach and larger units of study.
Students will develop current and future focused competencies of beginning health practitioners within the three-year, 144 credit-point program structure.
Our Doctor of Physiotherapy is a three-year extended master’s degree.
This professional master’s degree includes a high level of hands-on training, evidence-based practice, and requires advanced and integrated understanding of a complex body of knowledge in the field; you will undertake clinical placements at urban public and private clinics and rural health settings.
While this is not a research degree, as a level 9 program at Australian Qualification Framework (AQF-9), it requires graduates to gain the “knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to the discipline and its professional Practice” and “plan and execute a substantial research based project, capstone experience and/or professionally focused project”.
Currently the program is under going accreditation process. Once accredited, graduates will be eligible for registration with the Australian Physiotherapy Council as a physiotherapist.
No, the Master of Physiotherapy is no longer be offered at the University of Sydney, with the final intake being in 2023.
The Doctor of Physiotherapy is our main postgraduate physiotherapy offering.
The structure of the Doctor of Physiotherapy is very different from our current Master of Physiotherapy.
If you transfer to the Doctor of Physiotherapy, it is highly possible that you need to start the degree from the first year which we do not recommend. Therefore, the Doctor of Physiotherapy is only for new starters.
