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Physical Therapy, D.P.T.

The Department of Physical Therapy offers the Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) degree. The program is designed to integrate classroom and clinical learning experiences to prepare its graduates to carry out effectively the expanding responsibilities of physical therapists as health care providers practicing in evaluative, preventive, rehabilitation and acute care settings, and in educational and research environments. Students who enter the program will have strong but diverse academic backgrounds reflecting their abilities to think independently, evaluate critically, and exercise good judgment. Additionally, students in the program should display the personal qualities of flexibility, responsibility, and sensitivity to others.

The mission of the Department of Physical Therapy is to prepare physical therapy practitioners who embody lifelong learning, collaboration, and leadership in order to improve the health of individuals in our region and society.

The academic and clinical goals of the department are to prepare physical therapy general practitioners to:

Examine/screen human structure and function, both normal and abnormal, across the lifespan, within the scope of physical therapy practice;
Integrate, bridge, and cross-match the theories, concepts, and principles of the basic and psychosocial sciences to current and future clinical practice in order to justify their evaluation and treatment management decisions;
Utilize information from the literature, from their evaluations, from other health care professionals, and from their experience, to develop efficient, safe, and cost-effective physical therapy treatment management programs;
Communicate effectively, with or without technology assistance, with patients, health care professionals, clients, family members, payers, policy makers, and the community-at-large;
Be sensitive to the health care environment in which they work in order to analyze, interpret, and respond to the major factors influencing health care;
Function in a professional manner as a member and representative of the health care team;
Have a basic understanding of administration/management skills as related to the practice/business of physical therapy;
Function as educators in the academic, clinical, and community settings as related to physical therapy; and
Be critical thinkers able to analyze old and new concepts, principles, research and clinical findings, technologies, and outcomes; to relate them to personal and professional values and standards; and to integrate and apply them to the practice of physical therapy as appropriate.