South African Journal of Physiotherapy (Aug 1994)

Physiotherapy education in Africa- The experience in Nigeria

  • Seyi L. Amosun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/sajp.v50i3.666
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 3
pp. 60 – 61

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The African Rehabilitation Institute, an arm of the Organisation of African Unity, recently designed a physiotherapy education programme for implementation in African countries. The West African sub-region, having one of the oldest physiotherapy education programmes in the continent, was not directly involved in the formulation of the programme. A review of physiotherapy education in Nigeria, the first African nation after South-Africa to be admitted into the membership of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, shows that the programme recommended by the African Rehabilitation Institute is highly commendable.

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