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Registration in Order of Physiotherapists

The Order became, since the 15th of December 2021 fully responsible for the recognition of professional qualifications, for physiotherapists, obtained in Portugal or abroad and to issue the European Professional Card.

Pre-requisites for enrolment in the Order of Physiotherapists

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Mobile key or card reader

In order to register you should, preferably, have a Citizen Card with the digital mobile key activated or a citizen card reader with the respective pin.

In case you do not have a Citizen Card and have a lifelong Identity Card or in case of foreign citizens with a Passport, your access will be through manual registration.

Consult here how you can obtain your mobile-key.

Certificate of criminal record

To obtain the certificate of criminal record, please consult the following link:

https://registocriminal.justica.gov.pt/

You must choose:

Type of Purpose: Enrolment in a Professional Association
Purpose: Order of Physiotherapists
Function/Role/Category: Physiotherapist
Entity/Company: Enrolment in the Order of Physiotherapists - Law 122/2019, of 30th September

Professional Signature

The professional signature is an important element that will appear in the professional card. A document for this purpose is provided in the link, which should be filled in and sent, in digital format, during the registration process.

Signature Form

According to information provided by DGERT - Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations, on the recognition of professional qualifications acquired in the United Kingdom, it is clarified that:

1 - Qualifications obtained in the United Kingdom before the end of the transition period established in the Withdrawal Agreement (before 1 January 2021) by EU nationals are EU qualifications.

2 - The rules and recognition schemes of Directive 2005/36/EC shall apply to the recognition of those qualifications, in particular to all types of qualifications covered by Directive 2005/36/EC, without limitation in time.

Thus, professionals must submit the application Physiotherapist trained in a country outside the EU/EFTA

For these applicants, the procedures and criteria in use under the current European Directives on the recognition of diplomas will be applied, with the necessary adaptations.

To follow your registration process, go to Registration Form and press the option Case status.

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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