PT 441 Integrative Seminar I
The Integrative Seminars are a series of two
courses designed to provide situated or contextual learning experiences within
the academic curriculum. The intention
of these seminars is to provide a forum within which to develop clinical
reasoning skills in preparation for practice in the clinical environment. Students will be given advanced training in
scientific and clinical literature to facilitate development of a life-long
professional habit of consultation with relevant literature and application to
clinical problems. The Integrative
Seminars promote application and integration of newly acquired knowledge
(propositional and non-propositional) with previously learned
knowledge/experience, within a clinical reasoning framework. Examples of the types of knowledge/skills
that will be integrated are basic sciences, research and evidence-based practice
principles, biomedical knowledge, clinical skills and self-evaluative
skills. The hierarchical design of the
DPT curriculum will provide the framework within which specific areas of
content will be chosen as the focus for each of the seminar courses. Students will progress through exercises and
activities of increasing complexity based upon when each of the seminars falls
within the DPT program curriculum. The
first Integrative Seminar is designed to develop a framework for understanding
and applying theories of Motor Control and Motor Learning to the assessment and
treatment of patients/clients with neurological and orthopedic lesions. Material from Anatomy, Biomechanics, Neuroscience,
Patient/Client Mgmt: Musculoskeletal, Therapeutic Exercise and other prior and
current courses will be utilized as deeper understanding of theory and practice
is developed. This will include a
standardized patient simulation.
Distribution
PTH