Doctoral Programme in Physiotherapy

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Research lines
• Labour insertion
• International
• Quality

• Specific admission requirements
• Selection criteria

Specific Eligibility Criteria

General Access Requirement:

As a general access requirement, they will have to be in one of the cases of article 6 of RD 99/2011 or of the second additional provision of the aforementioned Spanish Royal Decree.

As specific criteria/requirements:

Recommended entry profiles:

Students must have completed the official Master’s Degree in Functional Recovery in Physiotherapy or the Master's Degree in Physiotherapy in the Ageing Process: Social and Health Care Strategies or other studies of the same level and with training content in branches of knowledge related to Physiotherapy.

Other access profiles:

• Be in possession of the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) obtained in accordance with the provisions of RD 778/98 or have achieved research sufficiency according to that regulated by RD 185/85 will have studied in doctoral programmes related to Physiotherapy, in addition, Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport and / or degrees in Health Sciences.

• Holding an official Spanish university degree, or from another country belonging to the European Higher Education Area, which qualifies for access to a master's degree in accordance with the provisions of article 16 of the Spanish Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and having passed a minimum of 300 ECTS credits in official university studies, of which at least 60 must be at master's degree level related to Health Sciences.

• Be in possession of an official Spanish graduate degree, the duration of which, in accordance with the rules of Community law, is at least 300 ECTS credits related to Health Sciences.

In the case of these last three profiles, the requirement of specific training complements could be included, as described in section 3.4 of the verification report (training complements).

All applicants will have to accredit a spoken and written command of at least one of the two official languages of the Valencian Community with a level equivalent to B2 on the scale of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Students who meet the above requirements will be admitted to the doctoral programme, and the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme (CAD) will be in charge of verifying the fulfilment of the above requirements for the admission of the doctoral student.