Table 5 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for physiotherapists’ years of service and their rating of physiotherapy education systems (all correlations are significant with p = 0.001)
Characteristics of physiotherapy education systems rated by respondents | Correlation of the rating with years of service | |
|---|---|---|
Polish physiotherapists | German physiotherapists | |
I. Form and content of educational programs | ||
Quality of teaching | −0.92 | −0.66 |
Specialties available in physiotherapy courses | − 0.97 | − 0.69 |
Work by the academic stuff | − 0.82 | − 0.69 |
Teaching skills of the academic staff | − 0.80 | − 0.93 |
Curriculum | − 0.93 | − 0.64 |
System of internships | − 0.89 | − 0.88 |
II. Organisation of education | ||
Conditions at the university | −0.86 | − 0.87 |
Opportunity to do part of the course abroad | −0.93 | −0.59 |
Functioning of university library and reading room | −0.94 | −0.74 |
University administration and functioning | −0.94 | −0.62 |
Student facilities at the university | −0.88 | −0.61 |
III. Effectiveness of education | ||
Acquisition of knowledge-related professional qualifications | −0.87 | −0.73 |
Acquisition of skills-related professional qualifications | −0.87 | −0.66 |
Acquisition of professional qualifications in the area of social competences | −0.90 | −0.69 |
Practical training for the profession | −0.86 | −0.83 |
Acquisition of qualifications relative to current needs of labour market | −0.91 | −0.84 |