ACAPT and the APTA Academy of Education worked collaboratively to develop an online glossary of physical therapy clinical education terms for both PTs and physical therapist assistants (PTAs).

Bookmark and share PTclinedterms.org with your academic-clinical partners!

Physical Therapist Manual for the Assessment of Clinical Skills (PT MACS)

Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) - tool provided by American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)

APTA has a Clinical Education Community Hub with ongoing updates that clinical educators may join by emailing cpi2023@apta.org with the subject line: "Hub access" and providing your APTA member number.

Best practice for physical therapist clinical education - 2017 APTA report

ACAPT Excellence Framework for academic physical therapy (including clinical education)

A Vision for Excellence in Physical Therapy Education

ACAPT Center for Excellence Institutional Profile Survey results, including clinical education practices

National study of excellence and innovation in physical therapist education:

• Part 1 - Design, method & results
• Part 2 - A call to reform

Evidence-based benefits of clinical education from ASAHP

• Feedback on the Placement Process Task Force recommendations and next steps discussion from NCCE’s open forum at CSM 2021
• Clinical Education Placement Process Task Force Final Report – ACAPT/NCCE - October 2020
• Collaborative scheduling process for PT clinical education placements - for IACCC facilities from Intercollegiate Academic Clinical Coordinators Council - ELC NCCE 2020

• Integrated clinical education (ICE) definition  (2017)
• Eight parameters of baseline expectation for integrated clinical education (ICE) (2019)
• Fostering student professional skills by implementing an early part-time ICE (2022)

• Student anxiety in the clinic: What to know & how to build resiliency - from New England Consortium of CEs  (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• Student data form - from New England Consortium of CEs (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• Student readiness to enter and progress through clinical education: KSAs and levels of competency for considering student readiness (2019)

Regional Clinical Education Consortia

• PT clinical education regional contacts & websites
  
  
• Learn more about ACAPT's Clinical Education (CE) Regional Roadshows
  

Relevant publications

• Perspective in physical therapy education: creating a communication network to connect clinical education stakeholders - 2020

• Collaborations in clinical education: Coordinating top-down and bottom-up efforts to advance best practices in PT education - 2018

Below are reports and presentations from past Educational Leadership Conference (ELC) Regional Networking Sessions:

• Expanding our mindset: rethinking clinical education from the student perspective - 2023 regional networking powerpoint
• How sharing data can help us all strive for clinical education excellence - 2022 PDF report
• Striving for excellence - 2022 Powerpoint
• Networking for excellence across the learning continuum - 2021 Powerpoint
• Exploring development of a clinical education resource hub - 2020 Powerpoint & report about a clinical education resource hub discussion/survey
• Sharing ideas for development of a clinical education communication network - 2019 Powerpoint
• Effectiveness of local, regional and national clinical education communications - 2018 Powerpoint
• Effectiveness of local, regional and national clinical education communications - 2018 report
• Perceptions about variation and capacity - 2017 Powerpoint
• Structure, processes and outcomes of regional consortia - 2016 report

ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Report - Final Report March 2021

• ACAPT member-approved motion: Clarity of observation hours in the admission process - October 2021
  
  
• Applicant guide for observation hours - January 2022


• Clinical site guide for observation hours - January 2022


• 2022 ACAPT Pre-Admission Observation Hour Task Force Report - December 2022
• ELP Pre-Admission Observation Hour Task Force Report - October 2021
• Pre-admission observation hours - NCCE final report, December 2020
  
  

Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP) from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)

• Level 1 course
• Level 2 course 
• Sponsoring a course 
• CCIP Booster Module 1: Using objectives to focus student learning
• CCIP Booster Module 2: Using feedback in clinical education
• CCIP Booster Module 3: Developing student professional behaviors 
• CCIP Booster Module 4: Managing the exceptional student
  

• Payment for clinical experience task force report (2020)


• ACAPT opposition to direct monetary payment for clinical education experiences (2020)


• ACAPT promotion of non-monetary benefits for clinical education experiences (2020)

Addressing interprofessional (IPE) practice in clinical education - March 2022

• Mindful clinical mentoring - a course created by clinical professors with first-hand experience
• Student anxiety in the clinic: What to know and how to build resiliency
• A mindfulness workshop for health science graduate students: Preliminary evidence for lasting impact on clinical performance
• Physical therapists' perceptions of mindfulness for stress reduction: An exploratory study
• Failure in clinical education: Using mindfulness as a conceptual framework to explore the lived experiences of 8 physical therapists
• Uncovering a curricular model of self-are in pediatric PT education
• See more resources here.

Facilitating clinical reasoning through alternative learning experiences in clinical education - April 2021 webinar video

Patient case worksheet & PPT discussing the worksheet

Diagnostic clinical reasoning worksheet & PPT discussing worksheet

Clinical reasoning of expert vs novice PT clinicians in an outpatient orthopedic setting

Critical thinking vs. clinical reasoning video

Acute care simulation activities - July 2021 NCCE resource-sharing webinar recording

More simulation resources

Career planning

• Panel discussion: Career paths in PT clinical education (2022)
• How to transition from clinician to faculty (2022)
• Pursuing a PhD & career in academic PT

CI training

• Clinical instructor training modules - from New York/New Jersey PT Clinical Education (CE) Consortium (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• Clinical instructor certification course document - from Texas CE Consortium (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• Collaborative model of clinical education recommendations - from Northern Plains CE Consortium (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• Collaborative clinical education: Success in the 2:1 model recorded webinar (2020)
• Using clinical-academic partnerships to develop CI training
  
• Physical Therapist Manual for the Assessment of Clinical Skills (PT MACS)

CI training handbooks & best practices

• Collaborative model of clinical education toolkit and resource handbook (2020)
• Site Coordinator of Clinical Education (SCCE – formerly CCCE) reference manual (2018)
• Best practices for physical therapist clinical education (2017)

• PT & PTA outstanding CI award nomination form - from Florida CE Consortium (shared at ELC NCCE networking 2020)
• APTA outstanding clinical instructor award
• APTA outstanding SCCE award

• Final report and recommendations from the Task Force on Clinician Engagement in Academic Physical Therapy (2024)
• Final report summary from the Task Force on Clinical Education Placement Capacity and Process Innovation (2024)
• ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Report - Final Report (March 2021)
• ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Report (2020)
• ACAPT Final Report from: Common Terminology Panel, Integrated Clinical Education Panel & Student Readiness Panel (2017)
• ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Report and Recommendations (2014)

• APTA Academy of Education Clinical Education Special Interest Group (CE SIG)
• APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP)
• APTA ACCE/DCE Performance Assessments
• Journal of Clinical Education in PT
• Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit from the Academy of Pediatric PT
• Reintegrating students into clinical settings - May 2020 recorded webinar from ASAHP
• Telehealth clinical education considerations - May 2020 recorded webinar from INPTRA