New Institutes leaders & restructuring

ACAPT has taken its foundational Criteria for Excellence & Excellence Framework pillars to develop a more streamlined organizational structure that integrates these excellence principles into our day-to-day operations, governance, mission, and vision.

ACAPT members elected the new leaders for the new Institutes in June 2023 who will begin their terms in October 2023. New task forces offer opportunities for over 100 volunteers to add their voice to excellence in academic physical therapy.  

In the meantime, the board, committee and Institute leaders attended an orientation and planning meetings to jump start their transition and work on behalf of membership.

ACAPT Institute Chairs

The Institute for Academic Advancement will support and promote institutional characteristics that reflect an intentional pursuit of excellence.  This Institute will:

• Encourage institutional programmatic and clinical development. 
• Foster leadership excellence.
• Advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Facilitate programmatic innovation.
  

The 2024 task forces for this Institute will:

1. Establish a successful interprofessional education/collaborative practice (IPE/CP) program and partnership within an institution
2. Promote the value proposition in academic physical therapy
3. Develop best practices in admissions & retention at DPT programs
4. Prepare prospective students for the academic rigor of DPT school

Center for Excellence

• The Excellence Framework for academic physical therapy is a tool to inspire discussion and continuous improvement.


• In January 2023, ACAPT conducted its 2nd Institutional Profile Survey within the new Center for Excellence online platform.


• In the spring 2023, ACAPT worked with the Research-Intensive Programs in PT (RIPPT) to gather data on the prevalence of a research culture among DPT program to help start to set standards.
  
  
• A faculty engagement & student engagement survey is being piloted in the fall 2023 and will roll out to all members in April 2024.


• ACAPT Data and Technology Task Force. Excellence in Academic Physical Therapy: A Call for a Culture of Data Sharing will appear in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education (JOPTE).