Identifying physiotherapy stakeholders for program evaluation. The Health Professional Education plays a pivotal role in providing quality health work force thus improved care in health service to the public in our country. As such all Allied Health Programs conducted by Higher Education Providers (HEP) should keep close surveillance of the quality of Allied Health Programs to mould health professional graduates to deliver quality healthcare service through proper competency measures. Stakeholders have been defined as on-campus and off campus group for the sake of identifying respective views in institutional effectiveness. Allied health programs are emerging enormously in our country and this revolution is creating major crustal deformation, forming folds and faults towards its profession as many educational institutions in the country is with the enterprising objectives of running such programs and not for the benefits of the society.
Standards of physiotherapy practice by respective regulatory bodies and authorities is well documented. However, the triad alignment reported, and efforts taken by physiotherapy stakeholders is unclear and limited. This article aims to highlight any constructive alignment that exist between the three stakeholders namely the regulatory bodies, employers and the higher educational institutions (HEIs). Literature searched was conducted using Google Scholar using keywords on “physiotherapy standards”, “clinical competence”, “regulatory bodies” and “physiotherapy”. Results showed evidence of physiotherapy regulatory bodies, educational institutions and healthcare employers advocating standards of physiotherapy. Physiotherapy authorities advocates the standards of physiotherapy competence, while educational institutions develop various competency assessment tools to measure the outlined standards on their physiotherapy graduate’s. However, the healthcare providers’ (employers) feedback on their expected employability skills is not promising. Evidence suggest discrepancy in the alignment, between these stakeholders and an improved mechanism could be proposed to ensure these standards are well communicated and integrated. Such constructive alignment is imperative in ensuring the physiotherapy workforce produced meet the current 21st century health care demands for optimal patient outcome.