Study environment

As soon as you start your studies in Amsterdam, you will be assigned a mentor from the school. The mentor helps students with their student career planning, discusses personal issues, challenges, helps them to set goals and informs them about their results. He or she is the communicator between the individual student and the school and represents them in school meetings where their results and grades are discussed.

Your class

Your class mates come from countries all over the world. Their diverse backgrounds and cultures make up a colourful and dynamic group of people. And generally, it is quite natural to build lifelong friendships and contacts, while becoming a 'global citizen' yourself.

Your ESP

The European School of Physiotherapy organises social events for the students. Students themselves are encouraged and supported to organize social events like the snow week in February, other sport activities, dancing etc

Teaching staff

The ESP programme draws on the wide range of expertise in the European School of Physiotherapy. The staff involved in the programme cover every field in the profession. You will be taught by medical specialists, psychologists, human movement scientists, exercise physiologists and physiotherapists. Besides being lecturers, they are also practitioners who have a wealth of experience and insight to share with you.

Our school has a longstanding tradition of contributing to international projects. Consequently, our lecturers have extensive experience gained from working in many parts of the world and they know what the practice of physiotherapy is about. They are familiar with the cultures of many countries: from Africa to Asia and from Europe to the Americas.

School Area

The European School of Physiotherapy is located in a modern building along with three other associated Dutch health science programmes: Occupational Therapy, Exercise Therapy and Nursing. Besides the ESP there is the Dutch Physiotherapy School with over a 1,000 students located in the same building. Next door is the Academic Medical Center Hospital (AMC). The AMC is associated to the Amsterdam School of Health Professions.

Facilities

Our library offers a wide range of resources in the field of health care. It houses books, journals and DVD's with specialised information from in the medical and associate health science fields. The collection also includes copies of prescribed textbooks and anatomic models.

In addition to printed information sources, the digital library offers databases like Science Direct and PubMed, online journals and other online resources. The digital library can be accessed in school or at home, using your password. Through the online catalogue you can not only find all materials from the collection, you can use it to reserve items or extend the loan period yourself. The librarians offer training (to groups or individually) in the use of digital resources.

The library has a separate silent study area, because it usually is a very lively place. As a student you can visit other libraries in Amsterdam, such as the libraries of the two medical schools. Your student card allows you to borrow books or other items from every HvA-library and every UVA-library (University of Amsterdam). When needed books from other libraries can be requested for loan.

Other facilities:

• Practice rooms: for exercise therapy, for electro-therapy, massage therapy and for physiology. All practice rooms have state-of-the art medical and technological equipment, all readily accessible to students.
• A physiotherapy practice (Center) where patients are treated, is located in the building. Students can participate in treatment, clinimetrics and group therapy.
• A well-stocked lending library.
• A video production studio including equipment such as video cameras and video recorders.
• Different types of classroom.
• A large, well-equipped gymnasium.
• A computer laboratory with more than 100 computers, free access to the Internet, and E-mail.
• A restaurant.
• A cafe.
• An academic bookstore.
• A photocopy shop.