Minimum duration of professional DPT education programs - October 2020 & follow-up response from ACAPT Board of Directors

ACAPT Standardized Graduate Outcomes Recommendations - December 2016

Curriculum design: A high-level view - 2019 presentation by Ron Barredo

World Physiotherapy

• Education framework - July 2021  
• Guidance for developing a curriculum for physiotherapist entry level education program - Dec 2022
  
  

APTA Section on Research 2014 report 

• Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Evidence-Based Practice Curriculum Guidelines
• Strategies for using the APTA section on research evidence-based practice curriculum guidelines
  
  

Other resources

• How learning works: 7 research-based principles for smart teaching - 2010
• Smart Teaching by James Lang

• Core competencies of entry-level acute care physical therapist practice - APTA Acute Care
• Entry-level physical therapy curricular guidelines for amputation and limb difference - APTA Acute Care 2021 edition

• Artificial intelligence in health professions education from Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education (IHPE).  ACAPT is a proud Global Forum member & active participant.

ACAPT member Carole Tucker, PT, PhD helped moderate a 2023 series of artificial intelligence workshops from the NASEM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Profession Education (HPE). Recordings are available below:

• Artificial intelligence - embedding competencies
• Embedding AI within health professions education
• AI considerations in the adoption of AI in HPE
• Critical importance & relevance of AI in HPE

Check out FSBPT's AI resources.

ASAHP's AI & ChatGPT recap.

Videos for students/faculty:  

• System 1 and System 2 thinking
• Critical thinking vs. clinical reasoning
  
  

Following is the understanding of clinical reasoning as outlined in Clinical reasoning in physical therapy: A concept analysis

Clinical reasoning terms & definitions

Fact sheet on clinical reasoning

Bibliography of select clinical reasoning articles

A tool for clinical reasoning & reflection using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability & Health (ICF) Framework & Patient Management Model

Clinical reasoning & decision-making in physical therapy: Facilitation, assessment & implementation

• Online teaching resources
• Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby & James Lang
• Nuts & bolts of implementing a lab immersion - webinar recording about hybrid learning and immersive lab instruction (June 2020)

The environmental physiotherapy education inspiration-base is showcasing a first few examples of how physiotherapy programs are integrating planetary health, environmental and sustainability perspectives into PT education around the world, with more to come. 

Planetary health online course

Humanities instruction in physical therapy education to cultivate empathy, recognize implicit bias, and enhance communication: A case series  (April 2022).  This article covers three health humanities-based instructional activities.

Health humanities syllabus repository - curricular resource for health humanities educators - from Health Humanities Consortium & Medical Futures Lab at Rice University

Documentary film teaches empathy & teamwork (May 2022)

Crises as the crucible for change in physical therapist education (May 2022)

Following are ACAPT-curated resources:

• Humanities resources
• Ethics resources
• Professionalism resources
  
  

Please contribute to the repository by emailing acapt@acapt.org.

Watch these popular presentations

• Cultivating the habits at the heart of patient care: Compassion, vulnerability & imagination* by Dr. Nicole Piemonte, Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Creighton University School of Medicine  (October 2021)
  
  
• Educating for professional identity: Setting a new course by Dr. Laura Lee “Dolly” Swisher (August 2021)
  
  

• Incorporating humanities & ethics into curricula by Dr. Nicole Piemonte (October 2020)

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a framework for describing and organizing information on functioning and disability. It provides a standard language and a conceptual basis for the definition and measurement of health and disability. 

Many phsysical therapy educational institutions use it as a framework to identify a patient's personal factors and classify a patient's body functions and structures, activities, participation, and environmental factors.

APTA ICF virtual course

• ACAPT Movement System Position Statement
• The Movement System in Education
• Movement System Summit 2016 Booklet

• Roundtable on Obesity Solutions
• Provider-Competencies-for-the-Prevention-and-Management-of-Obesity
• Participating Organizations

• Pain management articles in Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice - Dec 2022  
• Pain Education Manual from the Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy – Pain SIG
• Pain management core competencies for prelicensure clinical education
• An interprofessional consensus of core competencies for prelicensure education in pain management: Curriculum application for physical therapy
• Results of Interprofessional Consensus Summit
• Improving pain practices through core competencies
• Pain management domains & core eompetencies
• Adopting pain management competencies
• Advancing pain care

• Essential competencies in entry-level pediatric physical therapy education
• Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit - from the Academy of Pediatric PT

• Leading the team: A practical guide to working with PTAs - APTA Learning Center

APTA PT/PTA Teamwork Videos:

• Anthony DiFilippo and Sanaz Holcomb
• Jenelle Lauchman and Joel Gersh
• John Harris and David Harris
• Lori Leineke and Crystal Morris

• The PT-PTA Team Toolkit, a 54-page e-publication that touches on some of the most important elements of the PT-PTA relationship, from educational requirements to work with third-party payers.