Curricula Development

ACAPT's priorities include academic innovation and academic leadership, with a goal to provide resources to help academic PT programs achieve excellence. Below are ways ACAPT is striving for excellence in curricula development:

Individual members (faculty or clinical affiliates) of ACAPT member institutions can join consortia for free:

• Consortium for the Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism (CHEP) & see the Resources tab
• Education & Pedagogy Consortium
• Clinical Reasoning Curricula & Assessment Consortium (CRCAC)

Teaching

• Minimum duration of professional DPT education programs - October 2020
• Submit your innovative teaching strategies here.
• Curriculum design: A high-level view (2019 presentation by Ron Barredo)
• Ten ways to integrate curriculum by Robin Fogarty
• How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
• Smart Teaching by James Lang
• Pediatric Clinical Instructor Toolkit
  

Acute Care

• Core Competencies of Entry-Level Acute Care Physical Therapist Practice

Concussions

• Physical therapy evaluation and treatment after concussion/mild traumatic brain injury
  

Distance Learning

• Online teaching resources
• Nuts & bolts of implementing a lab immersion - webinar recording about hybrid learning and immersive lab instruction (June 2020)

Exercise Physiology

• ACAPT's Exercise Physiology Task Force Report (2013)
  

Humanities, Ethics & Professionalism

Following are curated resources from ACAPT's Consortium for Humanities Ethics & Professionalism (CHEP):

• Humanities resources
• Ethics resources
• Professionalism resources

Movement System

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

Obesity

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

Pain Management

• Core Competencies for Prelicensure Clinical Education
• Curriculum Application for Physical Therapy
• Results of Interprofessional Consensus Summit
• Improving Pain Practices Through Core Competencies
• Pain Management Domains and Core Competencies
• Adopting Pain Management Competencies
• Advancing Pain Care

Pediatrics

• Pediatric Content Areas in Entry-Level Professional Physical Therapy Education

PT-PTA Team Curricular information

• Leading the Team-A Practical Guide to Working with PTAs.

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