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Career Options
Physical therapists work in: • hospitals • outpatient clinics • rehabilitation centers • nursing homes • schools • homes • hospice facilities • research centers • athletic facilities • academic centers as educators

Clinical education
The physical therapy faculty values the clinical education component of our integrated, comprehensive curriculum. Clinical education provides opportunities for the integration of didactic knowledge, psychomotor skills, clinical reasoning, time management, professional behaviors, and patient education principles within the confines of the current health care system and under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. Our goal at MUSC is to provide the best clinical education experience possible. For this to occur, we rely on feedback from students, clinical and academic faculty.

Clinical rotations
• Students are assigned to one 7-week and three 8-week full-time clinical experiences. • The 7-week clinical practicum occurs after the first year of academic course work. • Students are assigned to acute care, outpatient or geriatric settings for these rotations. • The final three clinical practicums occur at the successful completion of all academic coursework and professional development requirements. These clinical rotations may occur in any of the previously mentioned settings. • Students are required to complete at least one rotation in an acute care setting, or a setting that provides opportunities to work with an underserved or rural population. • Individual clinical experiences should reflect a breadth of experiences and spectrum of patient age ranges. • Requirements for clinical rotations are at the personal expense of student physical therapists. MUSC does not guarantee housing or stipends while on clinical rotations. The student must consider these expenses prior to applying to the DPT program. Patients with osteoarthritis of the knee are commonly treated by physical therapists. Practice should be informed by updated evidence from systematic reviews. The purpose of this article is to summarize the evidence from systematic reviews on the effectiveness of physical therapy for patients with knee osteoarthritis. Systematic reviews published between 2000 and 2007 were identified by a comprehensive literature search. We graded the quality of evidence across reviews for each comparison and outcome. Twenty-three systematic reviews on physical therapy interventions for patients with knee osteoarthritis were included. There is high-quality evidence that exercise and weight reduction reduce pain and improve physical function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. There is moderate-quality evidence that acupuncture, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, and low-level laser therapy reduce pain and that psycho educational interventions improve psychological outcomes. For other interventions and outcomes, the quality of evidence is low or there is no evidence from systematic reviews.

Clinical sites
The physical therapy program affiliates with approximately 350 clinical education facilities. This provides opportunity for students to participate in a variety of clinical settings including, but not limited t • acute care • outpatient facilities • rehabilitation centers • home health care • pediatric sites • geriatric sites A wide variety of clinical sites are located throughout the United States.

Physical therapists
Physical therapy focuses primarily on those individuals whose potential or actual impairment is related to musculoskeletal, neuromusculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, and integument (skin) systems. It also focuses on methods of evaluating the functions of these systems and on the selection and application of appropriate therapeutic interventions to alleviate pain; to maintain, improve, or restore function; and to prevent dysfunction. The Profession Physical therapists are specialists in evaluating and treating disorders of the human body by using physical means rather than drugs. They are legally and ethically responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating a physical therapy program. This responsibility often includes instructing patients and their families and supervising physical therapist assistants, physical therapy aides, students, and other healthcare workers in carrying out the program or selected parts of it. The physical therapist consults and works closely with the patient's physician and other healthcare practitioners in establishing treatment objectives which are realistic and consistent with the patient's needs. The physical therapist provides services aimed at preventing the onset and/or slowing the progression of conditions resulting from injury, disease and other causes. The physical therapist provides these services to people of all ages who have functional conditions resulting from back and neck injuries, sprains/strains and fractures, arthritis, burns, amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, birth defects such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida, injuries related to work and sports, and others.

Skills Needed
• Good manual, observation, and communication skills • Must enjoy physical activity, working with people, independence, and problem solving Curriculum • Three-year entry-level graduate professional physical therapy curriculum • Doctor of Physical Therapy degree awarded upon successful completion of coursework, professional development and clinical rotations • Structured learning experiences allow students to apply theoretical knowledge, enhance professional behaviors, and develop clinical skills • Interdisciplinary classes held with physician assistant, occupational therapy and communication sciences and disorders students in addition to physical therapy specific core courses and clinical experiences • One 7-week and three 8-week full-time clinical practicum’s are required involving direct patient care under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist • Quality clinical practicum sites are available at facilities throughout the United States

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