Abstract: Competency has been talked and studied a lot on management science. This article briefly reviewed the concept of competency and competency model with its construction methodology. The details of the documents (or analogous documents), that described the competencies for physical therapist published by Ireland, UK, Canada, USA, World Confederation for Physical Therapy, and Australia, were introduced. Then the research development of competencies for physical therapist in China was represented.

Key words: competency, competency model, physical therapist, review