Current Leadership

Chair: Chris Sebelski, PT, DPT, PhD 

Vice Chair: Wing Fu, PT, MA, PhD

Secretary: Anita Campbell, PT, DPT, ATP

Nominating Committee:

Jennifer Canbek, PT, PhD

Rose Torres-Panchame, PT, DPT

Michael Obert, PT, MPT, DHSc

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Position descriptions

Chair (3-year term) shall:

• Preside at and facilitate all meetings of the Consortium.
• S/he shall be the designated liaison to the ACAPT Board of Directors unless otherwise determined by the Consortium officers.
• Shall be an ex-officio member of all Consortium committees except the Nominating Committee.
• The Chairperson will assure currency of essential information on the ACAPT Consortium Website.
• Attends the ACAPT Annual Meeting.

Vice-Chair (3-year term) shall:

• Assume the duties of the Chairperson at the request of the Chairperson or in the absence or incapacitation of the Chairperson and oversee Consortium ad hoc committees as a voting committee member.  
• Serve as the Parliamentarian during the Annual and Special meetings. 
• Prepares an annual budget and coordinates funding matters with the ACAPT Treasurer.
• Represent the Consortium related to any Consortium program planning responsibilities for ELC.

Secretary (3-year term) shall: 

• Be responsible for keeping the minutes of all Consortium meetings of members and/or officers.
• Prepare and submit written reports of the activities of the Consortium to ACAPT Board of Directors. 
• Notify Consortium members of the date, time, and place of Consortium meetings. 
• Maintain the Consortium’s archives and correspondence.
• Make Consortium minutes and policies and procedures available to the membership through the Consortium’s page(s) on the ACAPT website.

Nominating Committee (3-year term with last year as Chair) shall:

• Consist of three (3) members. The senior member of the committee shall serve as Committee Chair for the last year of his/her term. Each member shall serve for three (3) years. One new member shall be elected each year. The Nominating Committee Chair shall oversee the functions of the Nominating Committee.
• Prepares a ballot for offices and coordinates the nomination process; all attempts will be made to include a minimum of two candidates per office, when possible.
• Determines eligibility of prospective candidates.
• Contacts prospective candidates to obtain consent to serve.
• Requests short biography from each candidate to be sent with consent to serve form.
• Prepare a slate of one (1) or more names for each office to be filled. The slate (i.e. list of candidates), shall be published in communications to Consortium members and distributed to the membership at least 30 days prior to the election.
• Conducts elections by electronic and mail ballot in conjunction with the Executive Office.
• Notifies winners of election and welcomes them.
• Notifies individuals not elected and maintains a record of their consent to service for future considerations and needs that may support the work of the Consortium.
  

Below are the Clinical Reasoning & Curricula Assessment Consortium (CRCAC) resources: 

• CRCAC members can join this Facebook group.  Contact canbek@nova.edu with any questions.
  
  
• See curricula-related resources here.
  
  
• CRCAC's Teaching Compendium Task Group has been working on a systematic review titled "Effects of educational interventions designed to develop physical therapist learners’ clinical reasoning" and has started synthesizing the qualitative and quantitative data separately from the 24 identified research articles. 

Recommended reading

• Dr. Wing Fu recommends the following article, “I found this action research project done in Australia to be interesting. It feels similar to think aloud approach which is one that I like and adopt in my teaching.” 

Teaching clinical reasoning by making thinking visible: An action research project with allied health clinical educators by Clare Delaney & Clinton Golding

• Rencic J. Twelve tips for teaching expertise in clinical reasoning. Med Teacher. 2011;33:887-892.
  
  
• Schumacher DJ, Englander R, Carraccio C. Developing the master learner: Applying learning theory to the learner, the teacher and the learning environment.  Academic Medicine. 2013;88:1636-1645.
  
  
• Durning SJ, Artino AR, Schuwirth L, van der Vieuten C.  Clarifying assumptions to enhance our understanding and assessment of clinical reasoning. Acad Med. 2013; 88:442-448.
  
  
• Gruppen L. Clinical reasoning: defining it, teaching it, assessing it, studying it. Editorial. West J Emerg Med. 2017;18:4-7. DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.1133191

Member education and professional development

• CRCAC's Education Work Group proudly presents this video:  System 1 and System 2 Thinking. 

The CRCAC Talk to Author events are informal sessions with the authors.  It is a Q & A format between the participants and the authors to discuss the author’s publications and areas of scholarship and research. Below are recordings and links to the associated publications.

• Zoom recording: Talk to the Author event (September 2020) with Dr. Kelly Macauley.  The discussion topic is: Evaluating Changes in Clinical Decision-Making in Physical Therapy Students After Participating in Simulation.

• Zoom recording:  Talk to the Author event (June 2020) with Dr. Alan Lee and Dr. Steven Wolf. The discussion covers:
  • The chapter entitled: Telehealth: An Innovative Educational and Instructional Strategy to Develop Clinical Decision Making in Physical Therapist Practice in the recently-published book: Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making in Physical Therapy: Facilitation, Assessment, and Implementation. 
    
  • COVID-19 and the Advancement of Digital Physical Therapist Practice and Telehealth by Dr. Alan Lee, Digital Physical Therapy Practice Task Force, Physical Therapy, pzaa079.
    
    
• Zoom recording:  Talk to the Author event (April 2020) with Dr. H. Atkinson and Dr. K. Nixon-Cave.
  • The discussion covers the publication: A Tool for Clinical Reasoning and Reflection Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability & Health (ICF) Framework and Patient Management Model, Physical Therapy. Atkinson H, Nixon-Cave K, 2011; 91(3): 416-430. 
    
    
• Zoom recording: Talk to the Author event (November 2019) with Dr. Tricia Prokop.
  • The discussion covers the publication: Use of the Dual-Processing Theory to Develop Expert Clinical Reasoning in Physical Therapy Students.
    
    
• Zoom recording: Talk to the Authors event (March 2019) with Drs. Huhn, Gilliland, Black, and Wainwright.  
  • The discussion covers the publication: Clinical Reasoning in Physical Therapy: A Concept Analysis. Huhn K, Gilliland SJ, Black LL, Wainwright SF, Christensen N., 2018.

• Adobe Connect recording: Second Virtual Journal Club/Talk to the Authors event (June 2018) with Dr. Larry Gruppen.
  • The discussion covers the publication:  Clinical Reasoning: Defining It, Teaching It, Assessing It, Studying It.  Gruppen, L.D., 2017, West J Emerg Med., 18(1):4-7. 

• Adobe Connect recording: CRCAC's First Virtual Journal Club! (December 2017) facilitated by Dr. Karen Huhn.
  • Embodied-enactive Clinical Reasoning in Physical Therapy. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. Oberg K, Normann B, Gallaher S., 2015, 31(4):244-52.

CRCAC documents

• CRCAC strategic plan
• Clinical reasoning terms & definitions
• Bibliography of select clinical reasoning articles
• Consortium fact sheet on clinical reasoning
  

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