ECUREI Physiotherapy
This is a four year program. Every academic year consist of 2 semesters, each semester lasting 19 weeks. The program shall be governed by the general regulations of the Institute.
All course units in the program shall be compulsory and therefore, the students shall be required to register and pass all of them before the award of the Degree.
Admission requirements
Direct Entry
Direct entrants with a minimum of 2 principal passes in approved science subjects at the same sitting of the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examination or its equivalent. Essential subjects shall be Biology and Physics and the relevant subject shall be one better done of mathematics and Chemistry. Students who have sat UACE should have also met the minimum requirements of the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) at ordinary level.
Diploma Entry
Post-Basic entrants
Applicants holding a Diploma in physiotherapy or equivalent from a recognized institution shall be admitted, and exempted from the course units they have already undertaken and passed as long as their academic transcript clearly indicates the scores and grades of the relevant courses, provided the course content of the units in question should is similar to that in the courses offered by ECUREI. This exemption will also imply that these Post- Basic entrants don’t study all the 4 stipulated years as for the Direct Entrants from high school. The degree offered to these Post-Basic entrants shall remain the BSc PT.
Other diplomas
Holders of a diploma or degree in other health fields shall be considered for admission provided they have academic background relevant to physiotherapy.
Exemption of a course will be given to an applicant who has evidence that he has passed a course with similar content in another institution.
Degree Holders Entry Scheme
Degree holders in Biomedical Sciences shall be considered for admission. They will be exempted from the course units they have already covered provided the course content is similar to that of the ECUREI course unit and the applicant’s academic transcript shows that the student passed that particular course unit
Course duration
The BSc PT course duration shall last a minimum of four years. Each year shall consist of 2 semesters.
Length of a semester
A semester shall constitute 19 weeks, for which 17 weeks are for teaching and 2 weeks for examinations.
Bachelors of Diagnostic Ultrasound (BDU)
Bachelors of Medical Imaging (BMI)
ECUREI Partners and Affiliations
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