使命、目标和项目成果

项目的目标

1. 教育: The programs will create a collaborative learning community that develops adaptive, reflective physical therapists with sound clinical reasoning skills. 

2. 研究: The programs will improve healthcare through scholarship in clinical and educational practice, 合作医疗, 社会正义, 以及康复和运动科学.

3. 服务/社会决定因素: The programs will promote social accountability and act as agents of change to have a positive impact on health and the human experience. 

项目的结果

毕业后, each student should be able to demonstrate the following abilities as a professional and a physical therapy practitioner.

核心能力

• Professional formation and critical self-reflection: The student will use a process of deliberative self-reflection to enhance his or her understanding of self and engage in continued professional formation. Formation of professional identity is based on the following core values: accountability, 利他主义, 同情, 卓越, 完整性, 职业义务和社会责任.

• 沟通技巧: The student will read, write, speak, listen and use media and technology to communicate effectively. 学生们将表现出尊重, positive and culturally appropriate interpersonal behaviors in the counsel and education of patients and families, as well as when communicating with other healthcare professionals.

• 批判性思维和临床判断学生将获得, 理解, 应用, 综合和评估信息, 整合这些能力来识别, resolve and prevent problems and make appropriate decisions. The student will demonstrate the behaviors of the scholarly clinician by developing and utilizing the process of critical thinking and systematic inquiry for the purpose of clinical reasoning, 决策, 并进行合理的批判性判断.

• 学习与专业发展: The student will consistently strive to expand his or her knowledge and skills to maintain professional competence and contribute to the body of professional knowledge. 学生将展示集合的能力, interpret and evaluate data to assess the suitability, accuracy and reliability of information from reference sources.

• 伦理基础与道德能动性: 学生将以合乎道德的方式练习, fulfilling an obligation to demonstrate moral responsibility and 社会正义. The student will identify, analyze and resolve ethical problems.

• 社会意识、领导力和倡导: The student will provide service to the community and to the profession, assume responsibility for proactive collaboration with other healthcare professionals in addressing patient needs and be prepared to influence the development of ethical and humane healthcare regulations and policies that are consistent with the needs of the patient and society.

物理治疗护理能力

• 病人检查: The student will perform a thorough patient interview with appropriate medical history and review of systems as well as a physical examination using appropriate tests and measures.

• 患者评估及理疗诊断: The student will interpret results of the physical therapy examination and other diagnostic procedures, synthesize pertinent data and then formulate an accurate physical therapy diagnosis. The process of evaluation also may identify the need for consultation with or referral to other healthcare providers.

• 病人预后: The student will predict the level of optimal improvement that a patient may attain through intervention within a given period of time.

• 病人干预: 学生将设计一个合适的, customized plan of care consistent with the physical therapy diagnosis and prognosis, as well as with the patient’s/family’s expectations and goals. The student will also assume responsibility for delegating patient care activities and supervising those entrusted with them.

• 病人复审/重新评估: The student will perform an accurate re-examination and re-evaluation to determine changes in patient status and to modify or redirect physical therapy intervention. This process also may identify the need for consultation with or referral to other healthcare providers.

• 病人的结果: The student will track the results of physical therapy management, which may include the following domains: pathology; impairments; functional limitations; participation; risk reduction/prevention; wellness; community and societal resources and patient satisfaction.

• 系统管理: The student will identify the specific contribution of physical therapy management within the healthcare system and the influence of healthcare policy on that system. 除了, the student will demonstrate knowledge and be able to effectively interact within the independent framework of the healthcare team in a complex society. The student will extend his/her responsibility for physical therapy care beyond individual patients to include care of communities and populations.