Background Many factors affect student learning throughout the clinical education (CE)
component of professional (entry-level) physical therapist education curricula. Physical …

Background and Purpose. Cultural competence is a criterion for a Doctor of Physical
Therapy (DPT) degree professional and reference to it is contained in many American …

ISSUE: There is limited information and consensus on the future of clinical education and
the key factors impacting allied health (AH) clinical training. AH deans identified both …

Background. Little is known about the attitudes of children living in Central America toward
people with disabilities or the effectiveness of a disability awareness program in influencing …

Abstract Background In 2015, the American Council for Academic Physical Therapy
(ACAPT) developed 3 strategic initiative panels to address integrated clinical education …

Purpose To quantify how often physical therapists from high-income countries (HIC)
travelling to low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) practise outside their scope of …

Background: International service learning (ISL) is an instructional method used by physical
therapist educators in the United States (US) to prepare students for rendering culturally …

Background and Purpose. International service-learning (ISL) is a strategy used by physical
therapist (PT) educators to prepare students for rendering culturally competent care. The …

Background and Purpose. Technological advances in communication and ease of travel
have contributed to an increasing connectedness of world societies, and a new era of …

Method. This study used a constructivist grounded theory approach. Results. Data analyses
indicated that ISL as experienced by participants in this study did not align with APTA's …