Will I be considered as a doctor if I have a degree of BPT?
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No, the completion of a BPT programme does not award one with the title 'doctor' in the medical sense, yet a graduate shall hold a professional qualification in Physiotherapy. Further, students are trained in many aspects of physical therapy as a way of evaluating patients and treating musculoskeletal conditions, neurological conditions, cardiopulmonary cases, and other co-morbid diseases with exercise, manual therapy, among several other modalities.
BPT stands for Bachelor of Physiotherapy, a graduate degree course oriented toward the studies in physical therapy and rehabilitation and other allied health sciences. Although students in...more -
After completion of your BPT course plus Internship, you can write Dr. prefix before your name, but after completion of your name you should mention PT.
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This tittle of doctor being used by BPT professionals is quite a topic of controversy,but considering the rules available till now a doctor degree is not given to BPT students after passing. BPT students are labeled as therapists not doctors. All the best. -
Yes, after a four and half years course, a BPT student is given the title of doctor.
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