Instructor: Dr. Marcia Thompson
Partners: Tower Health Rehabilitation and Encompass Health Rehabilitation
Course Description: DPT 710: Comprehensive PT Practice
This clinically-based, service-learning course will reinforce, integrate and advance learning from all previous course content. This course will serve to advance clinical skills and clinical reasoning as applied to individuals across the lifespan with complex, multi-system health conditions. Students will be asked to apply learning from previous courses and to explore new knowledge and evidence to advance skills to entry-level, delivering and documenting high-value interventions. Using the WHO-ICF model and case-based principles, students will provide co-curricular pro-bono physical therapy to individuals who are under-served and under-insured in our community. Physical therapy management will include advocacy, secondary/tertiary prevention, health and wellness, as well as incorporating basic and advanced assistive technologies. Evidence of weekly advancement of skill and knowledge will be required, with individual objectives and measurements set by the student in collaboration with faculty. Reflection on different aspects of an individual’s needs across the lifespan is required as a foundational component of true service learning. Service Learning Course
