How To Prepare for Direct Access Now

Starting with the fall 2009 term, this course will be renumbered as PTH 6425.

This seminar will introduce physical therapists to the latest delivery models of practice and provide the underlying rationale for recent and pending evolutionary changes affecting physical therapy practice. The APTA’s Guide to Physical Therapist Practice will be presented and discussed as related to current aspects of “best practice.” The necessary philosophy of the expanded role as a diagnostician and the marketing strategies required to promote and advocate for the autonomous model of care with direct access will be discussed. The clinical competencies that define primary contact physical therapy and how these skills will help to provide healthcare consumers safe and effective management of neuromusculoskeletal impairments and functional limitations will be presented.

There are no current sections scheduled for this course number.
Please note that courses have been assigned new numbers beginning with the fall term.
Please check the new course number for course availability.