The Master's in Comprehensive Orthopedic Manual Therapy equips highly competent professionals in the field of orthopedic manual therapy, with sound knowledge and professional skills to perform therapeutic interventions in patients who present musculoskeletal and visceral system dysfunctions from a biopsychosocial approach.
Graduates master the theoretical and practical knowledge at the expert level to perform with proficiency and autonomy advanced and specific manual techniques based on scientific evidence. They take an active role in clinical therapeutic intervention processes and make assessments and treatment decisions in multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams for the effective resolution of cases associated with pathologies. They will take part in health intervention projects at the national and international levels while carrying out their professional duties with accountability, scientific rigor, and ethical principles. They address professional action, disciplinary action, and therapeutic intervention following the most recent research thanks to their specialized training. Graduates will examine with analytical and objective thinking the available literature and research in search of new therapeutic alternatives for greater success in their professional performance.
It is expected that graduates will perform their professional duties with the highest sense of ethics, responsibility, and respect for the diversity of patients while making satisfactory use of the information available to them for the benefit of the patient's recovery and wellbeing.
Program enrollment: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly.
Graduation rate: is calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.