Orientation to Clinical Education
What is Clinical Education?
Clinical Education is the application portion of the professional PT program. Your experiences at various clinical facilities will assist you in integrating the classroom material and applying that knowledge to various patient populations and settings.
Overview of Clinical Education:
Throughout the curriculum, in addition to course work and laboratory experiences, instructors schedule patient contact experiences. Patients may be brought into the classroom, or students may travel to local clinical facilities. These experiences give students the opportunity to work directly with clinical faculty and patients during each semester.
Clinical Education Experiences:
During the professional program, each student will be scheduled for 5 clinical education experiences of varying lengths.
Semester 2 [Year 1] (PT 5931; Preliminary Clinical Experience) 1/2 day per week in several different local inpatient environments.
Semester 4 [Year 2] (PT 5933; Clinical Experience I) 6 weeks, full time, in an acute care hospital.
Semester 6 [Year 2] (PT 6804; Clinical Experience II) 7 weeks, full time, at EITHER a neuro rehabilitation site OR an orthopedic site.
Semester 7 [Year 3] (PT 6814; Clinical Experience III) 7 weeks, full time, at EITHER a neuro rehabilitation site OR an orthopedic site.
Semester 8 [Year 3] (PT 6816; Clinical Internship) 12 weeks, full time, in an area that is of the student's choosing, depending on his/her professional goals and interests.
After assignment to a clinical site, the student is responsible for reading the specific contract, and for meeting the criteria of that site.
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