Jun 17, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Physical Therapy (DPT)


Program Educational Goals:


Graduates of the Program will enter the profession as physical therapist practitioners who: 

  1. Have demonstrated knowledge of the foundational and clinical sciences necessary to practice physical therapy.
  2. Are competent in performing physical therapy examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and assessment of patients and clients across the lifespan and in a multitude of physical therapy settings.
  3. Possess the skills to use the literature to direct their everyday clinical decision making.
  4. Participate in the administration of physical therapy services including delegation and supervision of support personnel, scheduling, and reimbursement activities.
  5. Display professional behaviors that reflect APTA’s core values of accountability, altruism, compassion/caring, excellence, integrity, professional duty and social responsibility in all professional interactions.
  6. Demonstrate effective written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  7. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning through participation in continuing education courses, formal post-graduate coursework, professional development, self-directed learning, or mentoring activities.

Requirements for the Degree


The DPT program requires 103 hours of graduate coursework. These hours represent didactic instruction, experiential laboratories, research, clinical internships, and other equivalent academic experiences. Full-time clinical internships comprise 12 credit hours, and part-time clinical experience comprise an additional seven credit hours of the curriculum. Our part-time integrated clinical experiences are designed to allow all students the opportunity to learn from master clinicians in our in-house, full-service clinics. Full-time clinical experiences occur in a wide range of settings throughout the United States to further broaden student exposures.

Embedded Clinical Health Science (MS)


   

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