Clinical Education

One of ACAPT's priorities is academic innovation, with a goal to establish a framework needed to develop a sustainable model for clinical education. 

ACAPT's National Consortium of Clinical Educators (NCCE) 

• DCEs and clinical educators at ACAPT member institutions can join NCCE for free.  See details here.
• Clinical education regional contacts
• Clinical Education Placement Process Task Force Final Report - October 2020
• Guidance on participation in CE experiences in response to challenges faced by COVID-19 (2020)
  

Join ACAPT's Open Forum for Clinical Education here.  The discussion board does not require ACAPT membership, but you will need to register with ACAPT's database to access the discussion. 

• Pre-admission observation hours - NCCE final report, December 2020

ACAPT's Physical Therapists Clinical Education Glossary addresses the problem that academic and clinical faculty often use different terminology when describing their work within physical therapy education.  You can also read the published article: Recommendations from ACAPT's Common Terminology Panel (2018).

Subsequently, the Academy of Physical Therapy Education (APTE) and its Clinical Education Terminology Task Force of the Academy's PTA Educators SIG created the Physical Therapy Clinical Education Glossary, including PT & PTA clinical education terminology.

• Collaborative clinical education: Success in the 2:1 model recorded webinar (2020)
• 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)
  
• Collaborations in clinical education: Coordinating top-down and bottom-up efforts to advance best practices in PT education (2018)

• ICE definition  (2017)
• Eight parameters of baseline expectation for integrated clinical education (ICE) (2019)

• 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)
• Economic models and clinical education principles presentation (2020)

• Student readiness to enter and progress through clinical education: KSAs and levels of competency for considering student readiness (2019)

• ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Report and Recommendations (2014)
  
• ACAPT Final Report from: Common Terminology Panel, Integrated Clinical Education Panel & Student Readiness Panel (2017)
• ACAPT Clinical Education Summit Final Report (2020)

• Communication tips for clinical education community during COVID-19

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

• 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)

• Academy of PT Education's (APTE) Clinical Education Special Interest Group (CE SIG)
• APTA's Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP)
• APTA's ACCE/DCE Performance Assessments
• 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