Description
During this terminal clinical education course, students practice intermediate and advanced data collection and complex physical therapy intervention skills in an affiliated clinical education center. The opportunity to continue to develop and integrate “Entry-Level†professional behaviors and work on “Entry-Level†professional behaviors in physical therapy practice is provided under direct supervision from the clinical instructor(s). The student will work towards requiring a minimal degree of guidance/validation from the clinical instructor during patient data collection and intervention activities. This ten-week clinical education course totals 360 hours and starts during the second semester of the second year. The student must obtain a total of 520-620 cumulative clinical hours between clinical I and clinical II and obtain passing scores in both clinicals to graduate. Pre-req: PTS120, PTS211, PTS215, ENG101, PSY101, COM104, PSY215, MAT111, and a humanities course