Benchmarking in physiotherapy education: a collaborative project

Many factors including demands for accountability and funding reductions give rise to the need for educational institutions to demonstrate their quality for purposes of public accountability and in order to attract students, both local and international. Benchmarking is a process which can address this need. Benchmarking also is a strategy for program evaluation and development which can be used in other fields such as clinical practice. The project reported in this paper concerns the school of physiotherapy in Australia and New Zealand. It utilises the concept of benchmarking within a collaborative context in order to incorporate the most positive aspects of seeking and achieving excellence within a peer review framework.