DPT 710 - Comprehensive Physical Therapy Practice

This clinically based, interprofessional service-learning course will reinforce, integrate, and advance knowledge and skills from all previous didactic course content through the case management of individuals with complex, multi-system health conditions. Students will provide pro-bono interventions for under-served and under-insured individuals in our community while learning to engage with other members of the health care team. To guide their examination, evaluation, and diagnostic/prognostic processes, and to select interventions, students will apply the principles of Evidence-based Practice (EBP), integrating clinical expertise, patient values, and best available evidence. Further, students will analyze, appraise, apply, and reevaluate the use of the best available evidence, while engaging in clinical decision making to address each patient’s unique and complex presentation. The course will advance and reinforce the practice of physical therapy through direct application of health care policies that impact the local and global health care environment. Students will use these policies to guide patient documentation supporting reimbursement for physical therapy services provided to the pro-bono patients. Individualized intervention programs may include service, advocacy, prevention, family education, as well as recommendation and use of basic and advanced assistive technologies. Consultation with other members of the health care team, effective co-treatment strategies, and teamwork play an integral role in successful completion of this course. Students will reflect on critical aspects of an individual’s needs to maintain health, wellness, and participation across the lifespan as a foundational component of true service learning. 2 hours of lecture weekly.

Corequisites DPT 710L

Credits: 4

Program Doctoral