Empowering the academic physical therapy leadership team training

 

Empowering the Academic Physical Therapy Leadership Team Towards Excellence

Provided through the ACAPT Leadership Academy (ALA)

Many internal and external pressures faced by Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) & Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program leaders compel all members of the team to act together to contribute purposefully to their collective goals and vision; yet too often traditional academic cultures under-emphasize or superficially encourage teamwork leading to siloed work that lacks the richness of deliverables produced collaboratively.  

The course will focus on:

  • Development of personal and shared leadership to achieve high performing faculty teams
  • Creating collegial cultures within shared governance of DPT & PTA academic enterprises
  • Building effective stewardship of the DPT & PTA curriculum
  • Integration of academic administration that drives system efficiencies to enable more time and attention to lead people toward a common vision.

Through a hybrid delivery format (synchronous, asynchronous and in-person learning) delivered by instructors as experts and mentors, the course will focus on application of content that culminates with a leadership team action plan implementation project intended to drive the home institution’s progress toward excellence in accordance with the ACAPT Excellence Framework.

This new, affordable ACAPT team-focused course fills a gap in leadership training currently available & is a good  complement to other leadership development.

Who should attend

This training will benefit Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) or Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) leadership teams of at least 2:

  • 1 Chair/Director
  • 1 Director of Clinical Education (DCE)
  • 1 Assistant Chair/Director or Faculty member

We encourage PTA programs to incorporate an adjunct or part-time faculty member who may want to become the third team member, however, this is not a requirement.

Each participant will receive content, assessment, reflection & application opportunities to empower their team to effectively nurture a collegial culture of collaboration as they solve problems, pursue new opportunities, and capitalize on each other’s strengths as they collectively aspire to achieve excellence in PT education.

Program learning objectives

  1. Develop personal leadership competencies, leadership adaptability and team performance to build cultures of innovation and empowerment within an academic shared governance model.
  2. Integrate strategies to establish a collegial culture that strives for excellence within your academic enterprise.
  3. Apply effective shared leadership that integrates stewardship of best practices in educational delivery and assessment across the continuum of learning of DPT & PTA students.
  4. Build administration competencies to ensure systems and processes within your academic enterprise uses data to drive decision making that fosters achievements within the ACAPT Excellence Framework.
  5. Develop a leadership team action plan that applies knowledge, skills, and abilities gained within this course to promote advancement of your academic enterprise.

Course sequence & timeline

Coming up soon! Phase 4: August 7, 2024 & December 11, 2024  - 2 follow up 90-minute synchronous online sessionss

The ACAPT Excellence Framework will be used as a foundation for comprehensive assessment and foster a culture of continuous improvement.  Multiple data sources will be explored to determine options for comprehensive program assessment using multiple stakeholders in this process. 

Stay tuned for 2025 dates. Registration is now closed for this event.

 

Photos & testimonials from 2024 Leadership Teams course

"I am super grateful to participate in the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT)'s inaugural Empowering Academic Leadership Teams group this year with Stephanie Eton PT, DPT, Board Certified Geriatric Specialist, and Derek Liuzzo PT, DPT, PhD, MBA, as we represent The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's DPT program, alongside nine other teams from DPT programs across the country. We spent two days learning, sharing, and uplifting each other (within and across programs) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I walked away
1) being so appreciative of the leadership modeled and expertise shared by our instructors: Jennifer Green-Wilson, Barbara Tschoepe, Lisa Donegan Shoaf, and the incomparable Dave Morris
2) excited about impacting our faculty team in a meaningful and transformational way
3) recognizing, yet again, that our teams experience similar struggles and that data and story-sharing are both balms and pathways to success
4) feeling overwhelmed with messages that my strengths fit into leadership roles, exceeding my ability to manage in my current job role.
If you are in academia and wondered if the program was worth the time, energy, and money, I have consumed many podcasts and articles over the past several years with similar content, but much of the Teams course was new, and the unique focus on leadership and applications to DPT programs was well-focused, insightful, applicable, and immediately implementable." - Carolyn Padalino, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

     

 


Course presentation team

  • Dr. Lisa Donegan Shoaf, PT, DPT, PhD
  • Dr. Jennifer Green-Wilson, PT, MBA, EdD
  • Dr. David Morris, PT, PhD, FAPTA
  • Dr. Barbara Tschoepe, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA

Dr. Lisa Donegan Shoaf, PT, DPT, PhD completed her entry-level PT degree at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 1981, a Master of Science Degree in Health Science and Sport from James Madison University in 1990, and a PhD in Education from VCU in 2002. She also completed a transitional DPT at VCU in 2009. She is a 2014 APTA Fellow of the Educational Leadership Institute (now the Fellowship in Higher Education Leadership). Dr. Shoaf served as the Vice President/Dean of Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences (MDCHS), Mary Baldwin University (MBU) 2021 – 2022. Prior to her role as VP/Dean she was the founding DPT Program Director at MDCHS 2012 – 2020. She was the Director of Clinical Education at the Department of Physical Therapy, VCU 2002-2012. She served as an instructor for the APTA Clinical Instructor Credentialing Program 1999-2019.

She participated actively in several CAPTE accreditations, including as the primary leader for the candidacy and initial accreditation cycles for the DPT program at MDCHS. In her role as DPT program director she managed budget and strategic planning for the program, and has had additional experience with budget management, marketing and admissions, and strategic planning and partnership development in her role as VP/Dean. Dr. Shoaf has served in leadership roles at the state and national level including Chapter President, Delegate, and Chief Delegate for Virginia, and on the APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor Education Board. She is a former president of the State Licensing Board of Virginia and was a member of the FCCPT Quality Review Committee. She served on the APTA Ethics and Judicial Committee 2017-2022, serving as its chair in 2022.  

Dr. Jennifer E. Green-Wilson, PT, MBA, Ed.D.  completed her BSc degree in physical therapy from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1984, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1997, and an EdD in Executive Leadership from St. John Fisher University in 2011. Dr. Green-Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Healthcare Administration (HCA) program at SUNY Brockport. Dr. Green-Wilson, as a PT educator, content expert and principal of the Institute for Business Literacy and Leadership, engages with several Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) programs across the country to strengthen the development of leadership, teamwork, practice management, and business literacy at entry-level and in contemporary practice.  Part of this work allows Dr. Green-Wilson to strength curricula, teach specific courses for DPT students, and customize/facilitate diverse faculty development workshops/programs. Worth mentioning, Dr. Green-Wilson was invited to facilitate ACAPT’s Leadership Workshop at ELC 2018 (“Your Leadership Mindset: Think Big, Act Boldly”) and its subsequent Leadership Webinar in 2019 (“Cultivating a Growth Mindset in DPT Students”).

Dr. Green-Wilson is the primary editor and lead chapter author of “Learning to Lead in Physical Therapy” (2020); this is the first textbook of its kind, targeted at DPT programs in the United States. Previously serving as a Director on the Board of Directors of the APTA, she continues to speak nationally and internationally on topics related to leadership, teamwork, business literacy, and management in healthcare.  Dr. Green-Wilson is the founding Director of the LAMP Leadership Institute for the Academy of Leadership and Innovation (formerly HPA the Catalyst) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), as well as a past member of ACAPT’s Student Leadership Development Committee and APTA Private Practice’s Education Committee. 

David Morris, PT, PhD, FAPTA  received a BS degree in Physical Therapy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983, a MS in Physical Therapy Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1990 and a PhD in Health Education and Promotion, also from UAB, in 2004. He is also a Credentialed Fellowship Graduate from the APTA Education Leadership Institute Fellowship and a graduate of the National Inclusive Excellence Leadership Academy program. Dr. Morris is currently Professor and Chair of the UAB Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where, since 1991, he has been a full-time faculty member. He has been a member of the UAB Constraint Induced (CI) Therapy Research Group since 1994 and has participated in multiple research projects aimed at developing the approach and examining its influence on extremity use following stroke and other neurologic disorders.

He is Training Coordinator for the UAB Training for CI Therapy program and conducts CI therapy training programs for rehabilitation professionals worldwide. He has held multiple leadership roles in several APTA components including President of the the APTA Academy of Aquatic PT and APTA Alabama. Morris is recipient of multiple awards including the 2009 APTA Lucy Blair Service Award, the 2012 APTA Legislative Commitment Award, the 2012 Marilyn Gossman Award for Professionalism in PT from APTA Alabama, and the 2022 APTA Marilyn Moffat Leadership Award. In 2017, he was named an APTA Catherine Worthingham Fellow.  

Barbara A. Tschoepe, P.T., D.P.T., Ph.D., FAPTA is a nationally recognized academic leader in higher education with expertise in faculty leadership development, curriculum design and assessment. She has been recognized with numerous awards, most notably as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow (FAPTA), the profession's highest honor for her long-standing contributions to education, advocacy, research, and practice in physical therapy. She holds the honor of Dean Emerita from Regis University School of Physical Therapy after a 20-year tenure that led this School from inception in 1994 to a recognized leader in DPT education in the US. She serves as the President of The Physical Therapy Learning Institute (PTLI), was a past Board Member of the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) and served on their Academic Leadership Academy.

Dr. Tschoepe currently is an education consultant where she leads DPT faculty in strategic planning, leadership development, curriculum development within a culture of ongoing assessment and CAPTE accreditation preparation intended to guide education initiatives in the future. She has been engaged throughout her career with international collaboration efforts that include Mexico DPT student immersion experiences, development of the 1st DPT program in Ethiopia with Addis Ababa College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, advanced practice teaching in Nairobi, Kenya, and serves as an accreditation reviewer for the National Centre for Academic Accreditation and evAluation (NCAAA) in Saudi Arabia. She continues to teach in health care leadership development, is active in clinical practice sharing her movement system expertise with individuals experiencing progressive neuromuscular disease and has an active research agenda that explores the integration of leadership development for all physical therapists across their career continuum.

 

Thanks to our sponsor for this training: Rehab Essentials