DPT 523 - Clinical Practice I

This course is comprised of part-time patient care and community wellness experiences. This course is intended to enhance students’ abilities to engage in patient care and evidence-based practice.  During this part-time clinical experience, students participate in clinical observation and the supervised application of discrete examination and intervention skills/procedures. Expectations for professional behaviors and clinical skill performance are commensurate with the course objectives and concurrent clinical skills courses. This course is concurrent with didactic courses in the musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, and neuromuscular practice pattern series.  The goal of these part-time clinical experiences is to expose each student to a variety of patient care experiences which encompass multiple systems diagnoses and impairments across the lifespan and continuum of care.  These learning experiences are designed to enhance students’ ability to interact with patients, clients, family, and other members of the interprofessional healthcare team.

Credits: 1

Program Doctoral