Evidence-Based Practice

Catalog description

Evidence-Based Practice is a 3-credit course taken during the Spring semester of the second year of the DPT program. This is the third course in the research track, focusing on improving student skills regarding reading, understanding, and applying clinical research literature in physical therapy. Classroom experiences include lecture, group discussion, Socratic questioning, group projects, and student presentations. Students will practice and develop skills in the formulation of clinical research questions, search for evidence related to those questions through various media, critically and systematically evaluate and write about current literature and clinical research studies, and draw conclusions from the literature with regard to the implications for physical therapy practice.