The APTA Learning Center was retooled in 2023 to create a more seamless, customizable, and user-friendly experience. But the year wasn't just about look and feel: The APTA Learning Center continued to grow the range of continuing education available, featuring courses from some of the profession's true thought leaders.
Here are the top five offerings from 2023, and a few courses that almost made the cut.
1. Successful Mentorship for Residency and Fellowship Education
This course offers in-depth instruction in the educational structure and skill development necessary for residency and fellowship clinical mentoring. (Look for a revised version to be released later in 2024.)
2. APTA Telehealth Certificate Series
This innovative telehealth course series includes six mandatory core courses and optional electives leading to a certificate. Enrollees have six months to complete the core courses.
3. DEI Certificate
The APTA DEI certificate series is a six-course program that covers bias, microaggressions, population health, gender-diverse populations, and more.
4. Exercise Assessment and Prescription in Older Adults and Individuals at Risk for Functional Decline
This recording of a live webinar from September 2023 is aimed at health care professionals who are involved in the exercise training component and management of those at risk for functional decline, and covers healthy aging, principles of exercise training and prescription, the importance of skeletal and muscle health, and more.
5. APTA: Optimizing Access to Pelvic Health, powered by Select Medical
Available for on-demand viewing, this recording of a daylong symposium held in October covers the latest developments in male pelvic health, transgender-informed care, rehabilitation of patients with cancer, acute post-surgical pelvic health, and more. Also available: two micro sessions drawn from the course.
Other Hot Courses
Here are three additional courses that didn't make it into the top five but were strong contenders that continue to be popular.
The Eyes Have It: Physical Therapy Management of Common Vestibular Disorders
Still popular: A recording of a course, delivered in 2021, focusing on recent advances in the management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and peripheral vestibular hypofunction.
Enhancing PT Patient Outcomes Through the Introduction of Clinical Nutrition
This course provides foundational knowledge in the use of nutrition as part of a PT’s patient and client management plan.
Lower Extremity Tendinopathy: Contemporary Evidence in Clinical Practice
Part of the 2022 APTA Lecture Series, this course provides an update on the current science of tendinopathy treatments, with a focus on immediate clinical translation. Topics covered include tendon injury and healing, the clinical skills to evaluate and diagnose common lower extremity tendinopathies, established treatment protocols, and modification of protocols for unique or challenging case presentations.
