PT 442 Integrative Seminar II

The Integrative Seminars are a series of two courses designed to provide situated or contextual learning experiences within the academic curriculum.  The intention of this series of 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, and clinical 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.  This second Integrative Seminar is designed to increase the understanding of plasticity in several systems as they occur in populations with and without neurological insults and explore the relationship between rehabilitation and plasticity. This will include a standardized patient simulation. 

Credits

1

Distribution

PTH