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Physiotherapists Order in two events of the Instituto Piaget

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VIth Physiotherapy Conference

The VI Conference of Physiotherapy "Physiotherapist of the Future - version 2.0", that took place on the 24th and 25th March, at Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget de Viseu, counted with the presence and intervention of the President of the Portuguese Bar Association, António Lopes.

The theme "Future challenges for the profession in the context of health care", included in the panel "Physiotherapy today", chosen by the organisation, was the motto for the presentation by the President of the Portuguese Physiotherapists' Association.

Beginning by highlighting physiotherapy as a scientific discipline, as an autonomous, regulated and self-regulated profession and also as a specific care provision, the President António Lopes underlined that professional autonomy is a shared responsibility: individual (of the professional and of the services in which he/she exercises the profession), of higher education institutions and of professional associations.

About the role of the Order, the President highlighted the attributions of regulating the access and the exercise of the profession of physiotherapist, approving the applicable technical and deontological norms and ensuring compliance with the legal and regulatory norms of the profession, as well as the exercise of disciplinary action on its members, within the framework of an autonomous disciplinary regime. In this context, he referred to the drafts, currently under public consultation, of the Regulation of the Physiotherapist Act, of the Code Deontological and the Disciplinary Regulation.

According to the organisation, the event sought to promote reflection, debate and knowledge sharing among students and professionals in the area about the reality of Physiotherapy in Portugal. The main focus was on the profile of the physiotherapy professional, addressing their skills, intervention models and the emerging areas of physiotherapy.

 

20th anniversary of the Jean Piaget School of Health in the Algarve

The Portuguese Physioterapists Order was present at the 20th anniversary of the Jean Piaget School of Health in Silves.

The ceremony took place on 24 March, in the auditorium of the campus académico de Silves, with a solemn session consisting of the Opening Table and the Table of Partner Entities. The Order was part of the latter, with the member of the Board of Directors, Pedro Rebelo, representing the President of the Portuguese Bar Association.

The Order of Physiotherapists congratulated the institution for the commemoration of two decades of history, for its contribution to the training of quality health professionals, and for the support to the development of the community in which it operates, reiterating its availability for synergies with all Teaching Institutions in the area of Physiotherapy.

Physiotherapists Association submits proposal on the implementation of physiotherapy units to the Minister of Health

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The hearing requested from the Minister of Health took place this Thursday, March 16, with the participation of the President of the Portuguese Bar Association and the 1st Vice-President, who handed over the Bar Association's proposal concerning the implementation of physiotherapy units in the organization models of the National Health Service, with a view to achieving the physiotherapist's professional autonomy.

The aforementioned proposal considered the professional profile of the Physiotherapist based on the Regulation of the Physiotherapist Actcurrently in public consultation, integrating a survey and characterisation of physiotherapists in the National Health Service and System and the value of the physiotherapist as an underused resource in the ecosystem of health professions.

The proposal presented, based on the assumptions already stated, summarized the position of the Order on the need for the implementation of autonomous physiotherapy units in the referred Health Systems, characterizing the physiotherapist's consultation, the intervention records and the single health record system. With the delivery of this proposal, whose content is included in the projects in public consultationThis is another structural pillar in the process of regulating the profession.

It is the understanding of the Order of Physiotherapists that in the current context of restructuring the organisation of health services, conditions are in place for their implementation.

Physiotherapists Association meets with A3ES

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The President of the Portuguese Institute of Physiotherapists, António Lopes, met this Wednesday, 15th March, with the President of the Administration Council of the Assessment and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (A3ES), João Pinto Guerreiro.

The working meeting, requested by the Order, aimed to address several issues related to training in physiotherapy.

After an introduction on the initial training benchmark (entry level), the President of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists made a statement on the participation of the Association in the project to create a "European Common Training Framework" for physiotherapists, with a view to a common European curricular structure. In this context, the A3ES reiterated its interest in monitoring the developments of the initiative and, should it be consulted in the final decision process, to issue an opinion in relation to it, in line with the development of similar processes for the creation of parameters to be observed in certain training courses, with reference to international recommendations.

The creation by the Association of a system to evaluate the quality of continuous and post-graduate training, integrated into the process of creating specialties in physiotherapy, was another topic on the agenda of the meeting. The recommendation, on the part of the Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education, of a prior understanding with the Higher Education Institutions for the development of the process was noted, a position also defended by the Order.

The Physiotherapists' Association has made itself available to deepen the collaboration with A3ES, namely by participating in the respective Consultative Council, which already includes other public professional associations.

President of the Portuguese Bar Association at the inauguration of the Director of the School of Health Dr. Lopes Dias

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Invited by the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB), the President of the Order of Physioterapists, António Lopes, was present in the ceremony of inauguration of the new Director of the Superior School of Health Dr. Lopes Dias (ESALD), also a physiotherapist, Rute Crisóstomo, that took place on 8th March, in the auditorium of the referred school.

The Director now sworn in is a teacher in the scientific area of physiotherapy and was elected for a first mandate to lead that organic unit of the IPCB.

Public Consultation - Draft Regulation of the Physiotherapist Act

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The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order informs that it was published, in Diário da República, the Notice no. 4613/2023on the public consultation of the draft Regulation on the Physiotherapist Act.

Responses to the Public Consultation

All members of the Order of Physiotherapists, with a valid registration, should fill in the form for sending comments, which will be automatically sent to the email: consultapublica@ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt, with the subject "Reply to the Public Consultation of the Proposal of Regulation of the Physiotherapist's Act".

Only contributions that are sent to the Order of Physiotherapists by the indicated form by 17th April 2023 will be considered.

Public Consultation - Proposal for Disciplinary Regulations of the Portuguese Physiotherapists Order

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The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order informs that it was published, in Diário da República, the Notice no. 3739/2023, on the public consultation of the draft Disciplinary Regulation of the Order of Physiotherapists.

Responses to the Public Consultation

All members of the Order of Physiotherapists, with a valid registration, should fill in the form for sending comments, which will be automatically sent to the email: consultapublica@ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt, with the subject "Reply to Public Consultation of the Proposal of Disciplinary Regulations".

Only contributions that are sent to the Order of Physiotherapists by the indicated form by 4 April 2023 will be considered.

Public Consultation - Draft Code of Ethics of the Portuguese Physiotherapists Order

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The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order informs that it was published, in Diário da República, the Notice no. 3738/2023on the public consultation of the draft Code of Ethics of the Order of Physiotherapists.

Responses to the Public Consultation

All members of the Order of Physiotherapists, with a valid inscription, are interested. The form for sending comments should be filled in and automatically sent to the email: consultapublica@ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt, with the subject "Reply to Public Consultation of the Deontological Code Proposal".

Only contributions that are sent to the Order of Physiotherapists by the indicated form by 6 April 2023 will be considered.

Access to Scientific Repositories

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The Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists is committed to make accessible to all members, electronic databases of scientific production and research, of open access, with relevance to physiotherapists.

In this sense, we inaugurate the page Scientific RepositoriesThe Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal (RCAAP), which also includes OASISbr, b-on, OpenAIRE and Google Scholar.

You can access RCAAP in its reserved area, where you will also find a practical consultation guide.

Pedro Maciel Barbosa

Specialist physiotherapist at the Matosinhos Local Health Unit Sub-coordinator for Primary Health Care, Matosinhos Local Health Unit Visiting Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Health Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Health - SNS Member of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists

Carlos Sand

Carlos Areia has been a physiotherapist since 2013, and has worked in various hospitals, clinics and clubs in both Portugal and the UK. He began his academic career at Oxford University in 2016, where he led a clinical trial comparing physiotherapy vs surgery in anterior cruciate injuries in 32 hospitals in England. In 2018 she moved to the neurosciences department, where she developed her own studies on remote monitoring of vital signs, which were implemented during the pandemic. Here he discovered his passion for data, and in 2022, he joined Digital Science as a Data Scientist. He completed his PhD earlier this year, and has more than 60 publications in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ, Cochrane, among others. He is also an honorary lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a consultant in clinical research.

Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz

PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Brighton, UK. Post-Doctorate in Epidemiology from the National School of Public Health at the New University of Lisbon.
Coordinator of the Studies and Planning Office of the Order of Physiotherapists. Coordinating Professor of the Physiotherapy Department of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESS-IPS). President of the ESS-IPS Technical-Scientific Council. Coordinator of the Physiotherapy Department at ESS-IPS. Integrated Researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) (a partnership between FCM-UNL, the National School of Public Health, the University of Évora, the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Santo Espírito Hospital, Terceira Island, Azores).

Sara Souto Miranda

Sara Souto Miranda has a bachelor's and master's degree in physiotherapy from the University of Aveiro, and a postgraduate qualification in adult respiratory physiotherapy from the same institution. In 2023 she completed her double doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences/Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universities of Aveiro and Maastricht (Netherlands) and is currently working as a technical-scientific advisor to the Studies and Planning Office (GEP) of the Order of Physiotherapists, and as a guest lecturer at the Piaget Institute in Vila Nova de Gaia. As a member of the Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Aveiro (Lab3R), she has carried out applied research in which she has assessed and treated patients with respiratory pathology, having taken part in 6 research projects. Throughout her career she has published 19 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor, 1 book chapter and more than 50 abstracts in conference proceedings. She was a research volunteer at the Ciro rehabilitation centre (Centre for expertise in chronic organ failure) in the Netherlands, and is currently a member of the Guideline Methodology Network of European Respiratory Society. She was honoured by European Lung Foundation e European Respiratory Society for carrying out patient-centred research, by the Directorate General for Higher Education with a merit grant for his master's degree, and by the Ciro Centre with a grant to support research abroad.

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