SYLLABUS
Master of Physiotherapy
(Specialization: Neurological, Musculoskeletal, Sports and Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy)
(SESSION 2017-18, 2018-19)
ORDINANCE FOR
Master of physiotherapy (M.P.T.)
(SEMESTER SYSTEM EXAMINATION)
1. The duration of course for the degree of Master of physiotherapy shall be of two years i.e., M.P.T. Part I and Part II. Each part shall consist of two semesters. (Semester I, II and Semester III & IV respectively)
2. The M.P. T. Course shall be available in the following specializations and candidate may seek admission in any one of these specializations.
· M.P.T in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
· M.P.T in Neuro Physiotherapy
· M.P.T in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy
· M.P.T in Sports Physiotherapy
3. The admission to the Master of Physiotherapy course shall be open to those who have passed BPT or equivalent examination from recognized university / institution with 50% marks in aggregate.
4. Goals of Course:
(i) Preparation of a postgraduate student towards his/her professional autonomy with self regulating discipline at par with global standards
(ii) Formation of base of the professional practice by referral as well as first contact mode using evidence based practice.
(iii) Impartation of research basis in order to validate techniques technology in practice to physiotherapy.
(iv) Acquainting a student with concept of quality care at the institutional as well as the community levels.
(v) Inculcation of appropriate professional relationship in multidisciplinary set up, patient management and co partnership basis.
(vi) Preparation of students to address problems related to health education and community physiotherapy.
(vii) Practicing the concept of protection of rights of the community during referral as well as first contact practice.
(viii) Incorporation of concept of management in physiotherapy.
(ix) Experience in clinical training and undergraduate teaching partly.
(x) Providing the honest, competent and accountable physiotherapy services to the community.
5. Examination Schedule:
(i) Last date by which the examination form completed in all respects along with examination fee must reach the registrar shall be as follows:
Examination / Without late fee / With late fee of Rs.500/- / With late fee of Rs.1000/-Nov/Dec. / Oct.15 / Oct.21 / Oct 31 / No form/fee will be entertained after 31st
October
April/ May / Feb 28 / March 15 / March 21st / No form/fee will be entertained after 21st
March
(ii) Incomplete form or forms of candidates who have not cleared his /her all dues will not be accepted.
(iii) The amount of examination fee to be paid by a candidate for each semester shall be as prescribed by the University from time to time.
(iv) The medium of instruction and examination shall be English.
(v) The syllabus shall be such as may be prescribed by the concerned faculty from time to time.
6. The examinations for MPT Semester I and Semester III will be held in the month of November/December and the examination for Semester II and Semester IV shall be held in the month of April/ May or such other dates as may be fixed by the Academic Council.
(i) Each paper shall have up to 30% Internal Assessment and at least 70% marks for External Examination
(ii) The internal assessment will be based on all or some of the following:
· Best of two internal tests based on lectures delivered
· Assignments/reports/projects
· Seminars
· Attendance & performance in the class
· Attendance & performance in the clinics
(iii) The breakup of marks for the above will be decided by the ACD of the Department at the beginning of the semester.
(iv) The teacher/teachers concerned/in charge of each paper/practical class will be responsible for the evaluation and submission of the internal assessment.
(v) For internal assessment in Practical/clinics Department may decide according to
the requirements of course.
(vi) To pass in a paper the candidate must secure 50% marks in the external examination and 50% marks in aggregate (internal and external).
(vii) For a candidate who fails in a paper(s), his internal assessment examination for all paper will be carried over and the supplementary examination will; therefore, consists of only an external examination.
Note: The Internal Assessment will be formulated and sent to COE as per prescribed schedule, failing which the result of the concerned candidates will be shown as R.L
7. Examination and Assessment
The UGC recommended following system to be implemented in awarding the grades and CGPA under the credit based semester system.
7.1. Letter Grades and Grade Points:
i) Two methods -relative grading or absolute grading– have been in vogue for awarding grades in a course. The relative grading is based on the distribution (usually normal distribution) of marks obtained by all the students of the course and the grades are
awarded based on a cut-off marks or percentile. Under the absolute grading, the marks
are converted to grades based on pre-determined class intervals. To implement the
following grading system, the colleges and universities can use any one of the above
methods.
ii) The UGC recommends a 10-point grading system with the following letter grades as given below:
Table 1: Grades and Grade Points
Letter Grade / Grade PointO (Outstanding) / 10
A+(Excellent) / 9
A(Very Good) / 8
B+(Good) / 7
B(Above Average) / 6
C(Average) / 5
P (Pass) / 4
F(Fail) / 0
Ab (Absent) / 0
iii. A student obtaining Grade F shall be considered failed and will be required to reappear in the examination.
iv. For non credit courses ‘Satisfactory’ or “Unsatisfactory’ shall be indicated instead of the letter grade and this will not be counted for the computation of SGPA/CGPA.
v. The Universities can decide on the grade or percentage of marks required to pass in a course and also the CGPA required to qualify for a degree taking into consideration the recommendations of the statutory professional councils such as AICTE, MCI, BCI, NCTE etc.,
vi. The statutory requirement for eligibility to enter as assistant professor in colleges and universities in the disciplines of arts, science, commerce etc., is a minimum average mark of 50% and 55% in relevant postgraduate degree respectively for reserved and general category. Hence, it is recommended that the cut-off marks for grade B shall not be less than 50% and for grade B+, it should not be less than 55% under the absolute grading system. Similarly cut-off marks shall be fixed for grade B and B+ based on the recommendation of the statutory bodies (AICTE, NCTE etc.,) of the relevant disciplines.
7.2. Fairness in Assessment:
Assessment is an integral part of system of education as it is instrumental in identifying and certifying the academic standards accomplished by a student and projecting them far and wide as an objective and impartial indicator of a student’s performance. Thus, it becomes bounden duty of a University to ensure that it is carried out in fair manner. In this regard, UGC recommends the following system of checks and balances which would enable Universities effectively and fairly carry out the process of assessment and examination.
i. In case of at least 50% of core courses offered in different programmes across the disciplines, the assessment of the theoretical component towards the end of the semester should be undertaken by external examiners from outside the university conducting examination, who may be appointed by the competent authority. In such courses, the question papers will be set as well as assessed by external examiners.
ii. In case of the assessment of practical component of such core courses, the team of examiners should be constituted on 50 – 50 % basis. i.e. half of the examiners in the team should be invited from outside the university conducting examination.
iii. In case of the assessment of project reports / thesis / dissertation etc. the work should be undertaken by internal as well as external examiners.
8. Elective, open elective and MOOC
(i) The Department offers departmental elective subjects, the students need to choose any one from the list. The students not willing to take subject from the departmental elective subjects can select a subject from MOOC*.
*The subjects which the students can opt from MOOC will be notified by the department semester-wise time to time.
(ii) The students needs to select a subject as the Open Elective** subjects from the pool of papers. **The list of Open Elective Subjects will be notified by the departments
9. Dissertation: Every candidate pursing MPT degree course is required to carry out work on a selected research project under the guidance of a recognized postgraduate teacher. The results of such a work shall be submitted in the form of dissertation. The dissertation is aimed to train a graduate student in research methods and techniques. It includes identification of a problem, formulation of a hypothesis, search and review of literature getting acquainted with recent advances, designing of a research study, collection of data, critical analysis, and comparison of results and drawing conclusions.
(i) Guide allotment will be done within 2 months of date of commencement of the course.
(ii) Candidate shall submit the topic of dissertation within two months of allocation of supervisor.
(iii) Candidate shall submit detailed proposal of dissertation including aims & objectives, methodology of significance in 2nd Semester as on date fixed by Head of the Department, which shall be scrutinized by committee constituted by ACD. On the approval of Committee the candidate shall begin actual process of dissertation. If the candidate failed to submit the proposal on due date, The Head, however, may condone the delay on specific recommendation of supervisor.
(iv) The candidate shall submit dissertation within 30 days of the date fixed by Head of the department in IV Semester.
(v) After expiry of submission period, the dissertation shall be accepted with late fee of Rs 1000/- .
(vi) The Head, however, may condone the delay up to one month on specific recommendation of supervisor.
(vii) In case candidate fails to submit the dissertation after the expiry of period as mentioned in (vi) as above , the Dean Academic Affairs may condone the delay up to 3 months on the recommendations of the Head .
8. Evaluation of dissertation of MPT final year shall be done by a committee consisting of Supervisor, Co-Supervisor of the candidate, Head of the Department & the external examiner on the basis of the contents of the thesis, its presentation and discussion thereon. In case of any controversy, the awards given by the external examiner shall be final.
9. A candidate whose thesis has been rejected may be allowed to resubmit a revised thesis after a period of three months from the date of declaration of the result but not later than one year of the declaration of result.
10. The Part –I (M P.T. Ist semester) examination will be open to any person who has been admitted to the course and fulfills the attendance requirements. The admission to various specializations of M.P.T. will be subject to the eligibility conditions in force at time of admission.
11. Candidate shall submit their application forms for admission to the Examination duly countersigned by Head of the Department along with a certificate from Head of the Department that the candidate satisfies the following requirements:
a) has been on the rolls of the university teaching Department throughout the academic terms preceding the semester examination, and;
b) of having good moral character, and;
c) has attended 75% of the total number of lectures delivered/ practicals in each paper. For late admitted candidates, lectures delivered will be counted from his/her date of admission.
It shall be necessary that 75% of the lectures prescribed for the course in the syllabus are delivered before.
Teaching/Seminars/Tutorial/Guided library reading:
-Period of 1 hour duration -1 attendance
-Practical for 2-3 hours duration -2 or 3 attendances respectively
(i) In case of students, whose names are stuck off on account of non-payment of fee, their period for the time they were not on their rolls, shall not be accounted for.
(ii) The shortage in the attendance of lectures by the candidate will be condoned as per rules made by the university from time to time.
12. Subject to above:
(i) There will be no condition of passing papers for promotion from odd semester to even semester in an academic Session.
(ii) To qualify for admission to 2nd year of the course, the candidate must have passed 50% of total papers of the two semesters of the 1st year.
(iii) A candidate placed under re-appear in any paper, will be allowed two chances to clear the re-appear, which shall be available within consecutive two years/ chances i.e. to pass in a paper the candidate will have a total of three chances, one as regular student and two as re- appear candidate.
(iv) The examination of re-appear papers of odd semester will be held with regular examination of the odd semester and re appear examination of the even semester will be held with regular examination of even semester. But if a candidate is placed under reappear in last semester of the course, he will be provided chance to pass the re-appear with the examination of the next semester, provided his reappear of early semester does not go beyond that next semester; Provided that for the award of the MPT degree he shall have to qualify in all papers prescribed for the MPT course within a period of four years from the date he joined the course.
(v) After completion of two academic years of studies (i.e. four semesters) he shall not be admitted to any semester of the same course and will not have any privileges of a regular student.
(vi) The minimum attendance requirement for taking an examination in a paper is 75% of the delivered lectures in that particular paper.
13. The grace marks shall be allowed according to the general ordinance relating to “Award of Grace Marks”.
14. Three weeks after the termination of the examination, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Registrar shall publish a list of candidates who have passed the examination. Each successful candidate in Part-I examination shall receive a certificate of having passed that examination. A list of successful candidate in Part –II examination be arranged in two divisions according to ordinance 11 and the division obtained by the candidate will be stated in his certificate/degree.