Bachelor of Orthopaedics Techniques

Within the orthopaedics profession, graduates are healthcare workers with duties attributed by decree of the Ministry of Health no. 665 of 14 September 1994 and amendments; they work on the basis of medical prescriptions and subsequent testing to build and/or fit, apply and supply prostheses, ortheses, substitute and corrective aids and supports for the locomotor system (both functional and aesthetic, mechanical or using external or mixed body and external energy), working with measurements and models directly with the patient. As part of their responsibilities, graduates in orthopaedic techniques will train the disabled in the use of fitted prosthesis and orthesis; in collaboration with the doctors, they will provide technical assistance for the supply, replacement and repair of the fitted prosthesis and orthesis; they will collaborate with other professional figures in multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes; they are responsible for the organisation, planning and quality of their professional activities; they will work in public or private facilities as employees or on a freelance basis. 

This programme is available in Italian.