PTA 145 - Introduction to Clinical Education

1 Credits
Lecture: 0 Lab: 4

Introduction to Clinical Education is a part-time, 5 hour/day, 1 day per week for 12 weeks (total of 60 hours) clinical education experience where foundational knowledge and skills are applied to direct patient care in selected physical therapy settings. Students may be scheduled at one or more clinical sites. Concurrent with spring semester courses, this course provides students the opportunity to perform physical therapy data collection techniques and treatment interventions with uncomplicated patients along with a high degree of supervision and guidance from the supervising physical therapist and/or physical therapist assistant who function as the student’s clinical instructor (C.I.). Students have opportunities to apply and further develop learning from the didactic portion of the curriculum in a clinical environment that fosters learning, problem solving, and critical thinking.

Note: Students must successfully perform all items on the Introduction to Clinical Education Skills Checklist in order to successfully pass this course. Students will receive a grade of satisfactory/no credit for this course. This course does not count toward GPA. This course requires intermediate reading, intermediate writing and intermediate math.

Prerequisite: PTA 101 and PTA 120 both with a grade of C or higher, or written consent of PTA program chair
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