PT 983 - Clinical Education IV

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This course is a full time clinical internship in which the student is supervised by a licensed physical therapist. This 6-week internship is the first of 3 full-time clinical internships. Students are matched to appropriate clinical sites including, but not limited to acute care, outpatient physical therapy, or inpatient rehab/geriatric facility. Clinical sites will provide adequate opportunities for students to practice the skills included in the Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI). The culmination of the curriculum’s clinical experiences will allow the student to demonstrate competence in managing patients with a variety of dysfunction involving musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardio/pulmonary, and integumentary systems. These clinical experiences will also expose the student to a variety of age groups and levels of patient care.