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Clinical Education
Technical Standards and Skills
The faculty have outlined the Technical Standards deemed essential for successful completion of the DPT curriculum. Students admitted to the DPT program must review the Technical Standards and submit a signed form at the time of matriculation.
What DPT Students Can Expect
Our clinical education program bridges classroom learning with real-world practice, offering students the opportunity to apply their knowledge across the continuum of care, patients with various health conditions and across the lifespan. Through these immersive experiences, students develop into competent, evidence-based clinicians ready to meet the demands of today’s health care environment.
- On-campus students will complete the majority of their experiences in the Pittsburgh region
- Hybrid students will complete their experiences in their home community
- All students (hybrid and on-campus) are eligible to apply for a variety of highly competitive national opportunities that become available to the DPT program
- Clinical education experiences include:
- 6-week full-time integrated clinical (Term 2)
- 6-week full-time integrated clinical (Term 3-4)
- 15-week full-time terminal clinical (Term 6)
- 15-week full-time terminal clinical (Term 7)
- Interactions with a variety of health care professionals, patients/clients and clinical settings. Terminal clinical placements may allow students to experience specialty clinical settings, such placements are dependent on student performance during prior foundational clinical experiences and availability placements.
Student Responsibilities
- Students in both options are responsible for their own transportation to and from their clinical sites and costs associated with this transportation.
- Students in both options are responsible for all costs associated with clinical education, including but not limited to site specific attire and onboarding costs, if reqiured.
Clinical Partners
Our strong clinical partnerships offer students access to a variety of care settings and patient populations. All clinical experiences help students build confidence, adaptability, professionalism and clinical skills that they will need to successfully enter the workforce as a physical therapist.
Examples of Settings and Populations Include:
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Have a question about our clinical education program? Reach out to our clinical education team today!
Research
Our clinical partners are also an integral part of research at the university. Research is conducted in therapy clinics across the health care spectrum and several of the therapists are involved as co-investigators. Additionally, several quality/outcomes studies are conducted throughout our clinical network.