Featured chapters
- ACAPT Framework for Excellence
- Clinical education
- Consultation
- Course organization
- Curricular design and delivery
- Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
- Faculty success
- Interprofessional education and collaborative practice
- Life-long learning and professional development
- Philosophy of excellence
- Program essentials
- Research and scholarship
- Service
- Simulation-based education
- Student success and learning
- The value equation
The first edition published by the Academic Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) features a contemporary source of essential information for physical therapy educational programs. The purpose of this work is to inspire all physical therapy education programs to seek excellence to best prepare future practitioners who are clinically competent and adaptable, empathetic, and innovative. ACAPT and the editors of the Blueprint represent years of meaningful effort by educators and researchers upon whose shoulders the progression of physical therapy education rests.