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Upon completion of the Doctorate of Physical Therapy Program, graduates will demonstrate the ability to:
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Engage in personal and professional development and lifelong learning activities
- Graduates who respond to the alumni surveys will move into residency, fellowship, specialization, and/or advanced degree opportunities within 5 years of graduation
- Graduates will become clinical instructors within 5 years
- Graduates will accept responsibility for evaluating new knowledge and its relationship to effective patient care
- Graduates will attend professional activities related to continuing education and clinical competence during the degree program
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Practice physical therapy in a manner that supports cooperative relationships with patients/clients, other health care providers, and the community.
- Graduates will effectively utilize community and interdisciplinary resources and services for patients and their families
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Perform evidence-informed physical therapist practice based on foundational knowledge and professional clinical skills.
- Graduates will demonstrate entry-level performance with diagnostic and prognostic reasoning, establishing patient impairments, functional limitations, disability and setting reasonable, measurable goals for individuals with movement dysfunctions across the lifespan
- Graduates will be able to develop intervention plans that are safe, cost-effective, evidence-informed, and meet current ethical-legal standards for individuals with movement dysfunctions across the lifespan
- Graduates will utilize outcome measures to determine intervention effectiveness for individuals with movement dysfunctions across the lifespan
- Graduates will apply evidence from the professional/scientific literature to patient care
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Interact in a professional manner that demonstrates effective communication for various audiences and purposes.
- Graduates will treat patients of all socio-economic, nationality, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation with empathy and respect
- Graduates will demonstrate entry-level professional behaviors when interacting with others
- Graduates will positively interact with individuals and groups to achieve desired goals in physical therapy
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Implement principles of ethical and professional behavior in physical therapist practice.
- Graduates will be volunteer participants in the university-wide honor code
- Graduates will treat patients of all socio-economic, nationality, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation with empathy and respect.
- Graduates will demonstrate entry-level professional behaviors when interacting with others
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Display qualities of leadership in physical therapist practice to advance the profession of physical therapy and the well-being of society
- Program graduates will be informed about current political and/or regulatory issues that may affect physical therapy practice within their state
- Graduates (after 1 year) are APTA members
- Graduates are active in community service organizations
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Apply critical thinking to evidence-informed decision making in physical therapist practice.
- Graduates will utilize independent and sound decision-making during patient screenings and examinations for individuals with movement dysfunctions across the lifespan
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