Current and Future Challenges in Physiotherapy Education

Abstract

The physiotherapy profession and education have evolved aligned with over a century of worldwide historic moments, sociodemographic challenges, and advances in science and technology. The goal of this chapter is to describe future challenges in physiotherapy education, recognizing physiotherapists as allied health professionals with specific core competences, whose educational outcomes can be enhanced through active learning strategies integrated in a real context for practice, in a never ending continuous professional development leveraged by a lifelong learning experience.