Community Clinic I

Catalog description

The Community Clinic course will provide the student with opportunities to integrate current professional and personal knowledge, attitudes, and skills into service activities performed in pro bono clinic settings and inter-professional learning activities. The provision of physical therapy services will focus on positively impacting the health and wellness of defined community populations. This course will occur in the Physical Therapy curriculum beginning in the summer of year two. This course provides students the opportunity to practice the thought process used by physical therapists in making clinical decisions for patient care. Students will gain additional experience with patient examination with an emphasis on the subjective interview, evaluating examination data, developing a physical therapy diagnosis, prognosis, and documenting findings within an electronic documentation system.