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Program Overview

The curriculum can best be described as a hybrid curriculum, with foundational sciences and basic physical therapy skills taught in the first year in integrated fashion. Many of the foundational sciences are taught in collaboration with the Master of Biomedical Science degree, and will be cross listed in the catalog as such. The second and third year focus on patient management in each of four physical therapy practice areas; musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and integumentary. Most trimesters of the program contain a clinical decision making course, which is a case based small group course designed for advanced mentoring in clinical decision making algorithms. Thirtythree weeks of full-time clinical practice are included in the curriculum, as well as a professional development track containing concepts in legal/ethical issues, practice management, and professionalism issues. Evidence-based practice courses are strategically placed in the curriculum to allow small groups of learners to develop research questions, collect data, and draw conclusions from the evidence regarding physical therapy principles under the mentorship of faculty. Finally, multiple opportunities exist in the curriculum for inter-professional training with nursing, doctor of osteopathy, education, and health information management programs.

This is a lock step, cohort educational program. Each student must pass the previous trimester at a satisfactory level to proceed to the next level.

Curriculum

Year One
Fall Trimester

DPT 520 Gross Anatomy I (4)
DPT 525 Exercise Physiology (3)
DPT 512 Movement Analysis I (3)

Winter Trimester

DPT 530 Gross Anatomy II (4)
DPT 570 Foundations of Prof. I (2)
DPT 513 Movement Analysis II (3)
DPT 511 Principles of Physical Therapy Practice (3)

Spring Trimester

DPT 523 Neuroscience (3)
DPT 510 Motor Control and Motor Learning (3)
DPT 597 Experiential Learning I (2)
DPT 514 Movement Analysis III (3)

Summer Session

DPT 610 Neuromuscular Conditions (3)
DPT 528 Evidence-Based Practice I (3)
DPT 550 Clinical Decision Making I (1)
DPT 560 Medical Conditions (3)

Year Two
Fall Trimester

DPT 601 Musculoskeletal Conditions I (3)
DPT 606 Physical Agents (2)
DPT 605 Cardiopulmonary Conditions (3)
DPT 571 Foundations of Professionalism II (2)
DPT 650 Clinical Decision Making II (1)

Winter Trimester

DPT 602 Musculoskeletal Conditions II (3)
DPT 604 Wellness and Preventive Practice (2)
DPT 697 Experiential Learning II (6)

Spring Trimester

DPT 710 Pediatric Conditions (3)
DPT 628 Evidence-Based Practice II (2)
DPT 607 Integumentary Conditions (3)
DPT 651 Clinical Decision Making III (1)

Summer Session

DPT 603 Musculoskeletal Conditions III (3)
DPT 670 Foundations of Professionalism III (2)
DPT 652 Clinical Decision Making IV (1)
DPT 608 Disability through the Lifespan (2)

Year Three
Fall Trimester/Winter Session 1

DPT 7970 Experiential Learning III (16)

Winter Session 2

DPT 7700 Foundations of Professionalism IV (2)
DPT 7010 Service Learning (1)

Spring Trimester

DPT 7500 Advanced Clinical Decision Making (4)
Electives:
   DPT 778 Adv. Geriatric and Neuro Rehab (1)
   DPT 779 Adv. Ortho, Sports, and Manual Therapy (1)
   DPT 780 Adv. Pediatrics (1)
DPT 7280 Evidence Based Practice III (1-2)

Summer Session

DPT 7980 Experiential Learning IV (12)

  
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