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APTA has developed, curated, and compiled resources to help those with the critically important responsibility of ensuring that PT and PTA students graduate with the needed knowledge and skills for high-quality, contemporary patient care.
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Curriculum Resources
We’ve curated resources to help you develop, review, and enhance your curricula within physical therapist and physical therapist assistant academic programs.
Program Resources
Resources to help existing and developing DPT, PTA, residency, and fellowship programs optimize their effectiveness.
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We’ve compiled resources that can help you expand your knowledge base and enhance your academic, professional, and leadership skills.
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March 11, 2024 / Website
PT CPI provides a standardized training and assessment tool designed to educate physical therapist students, and other members of physical therapy program academia.February 9, 2023 / Website
The Guide is the description of physical therapist practice for use by PT and PTA educators, students, and clinicians.December 22, 2021 / Article
The Education Leadership Partnership, a collaboration between APTA, ACAPT, and the Academy of Education, completed its charge with the published report "A Vision of Excellence in Physical Therapy Education."August 18, 2021 / Perspective
Faculty can be more intentional in making small but necessary changes in academic physical therapy to overcome at least some of the bias they possess.August 1, 2021 / Resource
This vision represents a collaborative viewpoint of multiple stakeholder groups and individuals that have considered an array of opinions and resources to conceive a future that would demonstrate how the profession has advanced its opportunity to achieve excellence in physical therapy education.June 1, 2021 / Feature
Part two of APTA Magazine’s special issue on physical therapist education continues the exclusive interview with four academic leaders.June 1, 2021 / Feature
Four academic leaders discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has altered the landscape.June 1, 2021 / Feature
Part one of APTA Magazine's special issue on physical therapist education.May 17, 2021 / Perspective
Former teacher, now PT student on what she hopes to bring to her clinicals.April 28, 2021 / Perspective
How do we address the "disconnect" between the academy and the clinical environment?January 1, 2021 / Open Access
The CAPTE PT Standards and Required Elements and PTA Standards and Required Elements, along with accompanying position papers, provide information and guidance on curriculum requirements for DPT and PTA programs.December 22, 2020 / Perspective
In a learning environment transformed by a pandemic, what can be learned from hybrid DPT programs?