The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists meets with representatives of Higher Education Institutions

As Reuniões com os Representantes das Instituições do Ensino Superior

The Commission Instaladora (CI) of the Order met with the Direction of the CCISP - Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes and the APESP - Associação Portuguesa do Ensino Superior Privado, representative structures of the Portuguese Higher Education Institutions (IES) of the public sector and of the private and cooperative sector, respectively. The meetings with CCISP took place on 30th May and 30th July and the meeting with APESP was held on 30th June.

In addition to the presentation of greetings, matters of mutual interest were addressed in both meetings:

1 - Collaboration in order to facilitate the procedures for enrolling new graduates in the Order;
2 - The promotion of the quality of Physiotherapy teaching, at degree level, with the Order's IC presenting the benchmark of convergence with international standards;
3 - The perspectives of development of specialties within the profession and the combination of offers in terms of post-graduate training and obtaining higher academic degrees.

All meetings concluded that there was a need for strategic and complementary cooperation, while recognising the different nature of the organisations involved.
Complementing this approach at the level of organisations representing the teaching sector, the IC has maintained a direct formal dialogue with the Directors of Higher Education Institutions with initial training in physiotherapy and with the Directors/Coordinators of the respective courses, which has proven to be fruitful.

In contact with the HEIs, the IC of the Order has emphasized the respect for the autonomy of the respective pedagogical and scientific bodies, and valued the role of the HEIs in terms of professional development. In this context, it should be noted that the convergence benchmark for the initial training of physiotherapists adopted by the IC of the Order is based on a proposal from a wide range of teachers.

The Order's IC has also been developing contacts with the A3ES - Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, awaiting the scheduling of a meeting to present greetings to the new Board of Directors of that entity.


Note - Picture of the OF / APESP meeting: António Almeida Dias, José João Mendes, José Manuel Silva and Miguel Copetto and, from the Installing Committee side, Isabel Souza Guerra, António Lopes and Nuno Cordeiro

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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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