Knowledge branch: Health sciences
Taught at: UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF NURSING AND CHIROPODY
Credits: 240
Core subjects: 60
Compulsory subjects: 138
Optional subjects: ------
External placements: 36
Degree final project 6
Classes: face-to-face
Years: 4
1st year available places: 60
Regulated professions for which the degree certificate qualifies: Podologist
Languages used in class: Inglés, Castellano, Valenciano
Minimum number of enrolment credits per student: 30 ECTS part-time students/ 60 ECTS full-time students
Degree Academic Committee President (CAT): Ruiz Ros, Vicente
Degree coordinator Queralt Blasco, Ana
External placements coordinator: Martínez Sabater, Antonio
Exchange coordinator Queralt Blasco, Ana
The aim of the Degree in Podiatry is to produce professionals with the theoretical and practical skills needed to prevent, diagnose and treat foot-related conditions. Due to their general knowledge of the human body and specialised training in feet, podiatrists can work alongside other specialists, in order to provide patients with a specific and effective diagnosis and treatment.
The Degree in Podiatry entitles graduates to work as podologists, according to Spanish and European laws.
It is an essential requirement that future Podiatry students have some prior knowledge of biology and chemistry, and the same is to be recommended as regards mathematics and physics.
During the third and fourth academic years of the degree, students carry out external internships in order to consolidate their theoretical knowledge and apply it in the professional field in which they will work.
As well as existing agreements between the University of Valencia and clinics, hospitals and other centres in which students can carry out their external internships, the University has its own podiatry clinic, where students are trained to attend to external patients.
There are no optional subjects in this degree’s curriculum.