USAHS Alumni Testimonials – Physical Therapy Programs

USAHS Alumni Testimonials – Physical Therapy Programs

[00:00:00] Paul Hebbler (Alumni): I felt like I was very well-prepared for the field when I graduated.

[00:00:03] Amanda Grant (Alumni): There’s something very special about this university.

[00:00:05] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): My time here at St. Augustine was great. It was the best thing I ever did. I was lucky enough to meet my wife here, first off, but then got a great education from a lot of great faculty members and met some great clinicians also. It really set me up well for the first couple of years of my career.

[00:00:18] Amanda Grant (Alumni): Unlike other universities where you’re just a number, the university here, you are one of them, and you become family from day one. And this university teaches you how to be an amazing critical thinker, to treat your patients as individuals, to appreciate the uniquenesses of your patients, and to help you continue to refine your skills so you really can make an impact on your patients and their quality of life.

[00:00:40] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): One of the things that St. Augustine is most proud of is its ability to instill professionalism for the clinicians that we’re going to be out in the, out in the field. Especially to be doctors of our field, the education that we get has to be second to none.

[00:00:51] Tan Van (Alumni): Most clinicians, I feel like, that came from here, you kind of go out with a little bit more confidence in, um, patient care and kind of how to do things compared to most other PT programs that I’ve seen.

[00:01:01] Darrell Gillespie (Alumni): The preparation is great here. I mean, the lectures are great as far as getting you just the basic knowledge of everything, gets you a good foundation, but the hands-on experience you get in the labs really helps a lot.

[00:01:11] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): Accessibility to all the facilities we have here at University of St. Augustine, really be open almost 24/7, which was great, especially around those midterms and finals.

[00:01:19] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): And then over my two years here, I’ve seen St. Augustine continually invest in the students and open up new simulation labs and new equipment, so we are really up to date so we can hit the ground running after we do graduate.

[00:01:29] Paul Hebbler (Alumni): We are presented the newest research, and when we brought in any kind of research we had found, it was expected to be the most up to date because that’s what your patient’s going to expect.

[00:01:37] Paul Hebbler (Alumni): You are trained to show that you care about that person, and I actually had patients in my first couple of weeks to months remark that they felt like I cared more than other times that they had been in physical therapy. Um, and I had other people that I graduated with say the same thing.

[00:01:53] Amanda Grant (Alumni): So when you’re out there looking at the clinicians that you’re working with, you want to be working for the best possible, and that is a University of St. Augustine graduate.

[00:02:01] Stephen Elam (Alumni): The rigor of a physical therapy program is, it’s significant, right? It’s a challenge to get through this, but great things are done by great people who go through great challenges, and the University of St. Augustine pushes you to be the best that you can be.

[00:02:17] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): You can get an education to check a box from anywhere across the country, but being able to set yourself up and make those lasting relationships and connections is what’s really gonna help you get to where you want to go in your career, which is to take care of people.

[00:02:28] Stephen Elam (Alumni): Look at what you’re getting here, right? You’re getting state-of-the-art equipment, extraordinarily well-trained faculty who care about who you are. You get the opportunity to go somewhere fantastic to live, to hang out with fantastic people, to receive a fantastic education.

[00:02:43] Cody Honeycutt (Alumni): It was the best two years of my life, and it continues to get better, and I think that is, in big part, just because of the University of St. Augustine. Very thankful for it.