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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PT 758 Clinical Education Experience I
4 credits
This first of the full-time clinical education experiences in the curriculum is eight weeks in length and occurs after one full year of academic coursework, part-time integrated clinical education and experiential learning opportunities. This clinical education experience is the student’s first formal full-time involvement in practice of physical therapy. Close supervision and additional clinical teaching may be required in all areas of clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on developing good interpersonal skills with supervisors, patients, and other health care practitioners. It also focuses on oral and written communication skills, on performing physical therapy examinations, evaluations, intervention planning and implementation for patients with cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, medical/surgical and/or orthopedic conditions/diagnoses and on providing basic functional training. The student should begin to appreciate the role of the physical therapist in the interdisciplinary team and the responsibilities involved in managing a patient caseload.
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