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Physical Therapy Students’ Perception Of Their Ability Of Clinical And Clinical Decision-Making Skills Enhanced After Simulation-Based Learning Courses In The United States: A Repeated Measures Design, Fatima Bizama, Masoor Alameri, Kristy Demers, Derrick F. Campbell

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Purpose It aimed to investigate physical therapy students’ perception of their ability of clinical and clinical decision-making skills after a simulation-based learning course in the United States.

Methods Survey questionnaires were administered to voluntary participants, including 44 second and third-year physical therapy students of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences during 2021–2022. Thirty-six questionnaire items consisted of 4 demographic items, 1 general evaluation, 21 test items for clinical decision-making skills, and 4 clinical skill items. Descriptive and inferential statistics evaluated differences in students’ perception of their ability in clinical decision-making and clinical skills, pre- and post-simulation, and post-first …

Professional Behavior Expectations Of Educators Among Doctor Of Physical Therapy Students: A Novel Professionalism Self-Assessment Tool, Arvie Vitente, Kevin R. Kunkel, Carmelo Cunanan

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Monitoring educators' professional behavior expectations among Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students during their academic and clinical rotations are crucial. They should be linked to the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) code of ethics and core values. Having a solid methodology of monitoring professional behaviors expectations could enable a uniform institutional training of affective skills and recording of violations to the professional behavior expectations as required by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), where standards 7D4 and 7D5 state that "The physical therapist professional curriculum includes content and learning experiences designed to prepare students to achieve educational …

Automated Academic And Professional Behaviors Student Tracking Systems, Arvie Vitente, Shannon Clifford, Kevin R. Kunkel, Thomas Werner, Peyton D. Sykes

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The purpose of this presentation is to describe a novel program faculty designed automated academic and professional behaviors student tracking system in select programs at three campuses of the University of St Augustine for Health Sciences.

The automated tracking systems streamlined and served to improve both faculty and student understanding of both academic and professional behavior performance, across three programs and three campuses at this multi campus university Early detection of performance insufficiencies was critical to changing performance and behavior.