Welcome to the Manchester School of Physiotherapy

Ideally it is best to visit us during one of our open days. However, this is not always possible, so instead we will take you on an internet tour of the school.

We are situated within the Central Manchester Healthcare Trust campus, which is directly adjacent to the University of Manchester. The city centre is around two miles to the north of us.

The building itself was originally the 'Out Patient' Department of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and is grade 2 listed. Inside it has been designed to our own specifications.

We are one of the largest physiotherapy schools in the UK, with an intake of 134 undergraduate students per year. Students can relax in their own common room.

We have an excellent and very busy school library run by a qualified librarian and staff ensure that the 5000 books together with 50 specialist journals are kept up to date.

Students have use of 17 networked computers within the school, and there is access to the latest software, including windows 95, Office PRO 97, email and a number of data bases.

Students can also use libraries within the University of Manchester, although they do not have access to the university computers.

Physiotherapy is very much skills based, and as well as the theoretical subjects, students learn exercise therapy, massage and manipulation, and electrotherapy. There may be 12 or 24 students per session, and two academic staff are often on hand with a larger group.

We have a large gym and students learn all aspects of medical kinesiology and therapeutic exercise. Again, small group work is the norm, and students work through the various tasks and problems that a clinical physiotherapist is likely to encounter.

The equipment in the movement laboratory is in demand from both undergraduate and postgraduate students as part of project work or research.

The hydrotherapy pool is used jointly by the physiotherapy department and school. Students have some teaching sessions in both the first and second years.

The school has two 'state of the art' lecture theatres. They are used both for the undergraduate course, but also for many postgraduate and other courses.