A comprehensive postgraduate certificate  created for physiotherapy professionals, which will allow you to combine your studies with other professional responsibilities and access the course from any location with total flexibility"

Respiratory physiotherapy is part of physiotherapy, but focusing on the pathophysiology of the respiratory system, both medical and surgical, requiring a demanding knowledge of the respiratory system and the existing techniques for its treatment, healing and stabilization.

The disciplinary consideration of respiratory physiotherapy with a scientific-technical basis began in the late twentieth century, thanks to technological advances that allow measuring respiratory work and techniques, and is currently becoming necessary and essential in different hospital units.

Therefore, it is essential that physical therapists update their knowledge in respiratory physiotherapy and acquire new techniques and tools to apply in their daily practice.

Physiotherapy is considered one of the therapeutic pillars in the management of patients with pulmonary diseases, whether obstructive or restrictive, chronic or acute.

The increase in the incidence of respiratory pathologies that we are going to see during this postgraduate certificate, both in children and adults, considerably affects the quality of life of the patients who suffer from them, as well as our health system, with a high social and economic cost due to hospitalization days, sick leave and early death.

The postgraduate certificate has a teaching staff specialized in respiratory physiotherapy, who contribute both their practical experience in their day-to-day work in private practice, as well as their lengthy experience in teaching at national and international level. In addition, it has the advantage of being a 100% online specialization, so the student can decide from where to study and at what time to do it, this way, they can flexibly self-direct their study hours.

A complete and practical postgraduate certificate that will allow you to learn in a real and direct way everything you need to work as a physiotherapist"

The postgraduate certificate in Respiratory Physiotherapy in Critically Ill Patients contains the most complete and updated scientific program on the market. The most important features of the course are:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

An effective and reliable postgraduate certificate that will take you through an interesting and efficient learning process so that you acquire all the knowledge of an expert in the field"

Our teaching staff is made up of working professionals. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will cover the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience at the service of the course: one of the differential qualities of this course.

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate certificate. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your education. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this postgraduate certificate will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

As it is an online course, you will be able to combine your training with the rest of your daily activities. This ensures that you receive the best training, while continuing to grow professionally "

This comprehensive postgraduate certificate has been created from start to finish, to become a tool for personal and professional growth for physiotherapists. Its objective is to take you through a program that will allow you to acquire the most up-to-date knowledge and techniques for the most advanced and competitive practice in this field.

With a real practical objective, this postgraduate certificate will allow you to achieve your educational goals by boosting your CV to excellence"

General Objectives

• Promote specialization in respiratory physiotherapy
• Update knowledge and manage physiotherapy in different patients with respiratory pathologies
• Have knowledge of the pathophysiology and advanced exploration of the respiratory system
• Execute, direct and coordinate the Respiratory Physiotherapy intervention plan for each patient

Specific Objectives

• Delve into respiratory physiotherapy in ICUs
• Manage the different respiratory techniques in critically ill patients
• Apply pre/post-surgery exercise programs

Highly specialized objectives in a program created to form the best professionals in Respiratory Physiotherapy"