DPT 752: Integrated Clinical Experience III

This is the third and final course dedicated to immersing physical therapy students into the clinical environment through part-time clinical experiences. This course provides students with active learning opportunities to continue to develop their professional identity and reinforce didactic content and skills learned in prior and concurrent courses through real and simulated clinical encounters with diverse- patient groups in an inpatient setting, outpatient setting, and community settings. Students additionally participate in learning experiences in a team-based care setting to emphasize interprofessional collaborative practice and in a community clinic that serves the un-/under-insured. Continued emphasis is placed on performing components of the patient-client management model including completing a chart review and obtaining a subjective history, performance of tests and measures used in physical therapy screening and examination, application of the International Classification of Function to guide evaluation and plan of care decisions, applying various therapeutic interventions to different patient presentations, and improving documentation and billing practices to prepare for full-time clinical education experiences.