Physical Therapy Department
Leadership Projects
Students in the URI Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy Program are given the opportunity to develop leadership and consultation skills through addressing a comprehensive, community or organizational problem. Utilizing skills developed throughout the curriculum, students evaluate an environment, identify a problem, assess the feasibility of potential solutions, develop an action plan, and follow through to see that the plan is implemented and the results evaluated. Students are encouraged to develop projects that utilize their unique skills, backgrounds and interests.
Examples of projects completed in the past and planned for the future include:
- Community garden at a nursing home
- Special Olympics Young Athletes Program
- Special Olympics FunFitness strength, balance and flexibility screening
- Fundraising to send students to the American Physical Therapy Association National Student Conclave
- Exercise group for persons with Parkinsons Disease
- Organizing a variety of fundraising events including a golf tournament, road race and dinner/receptions.
- Exercise group for women at risk for osteoporosis
- Recreational dance program for senior citizens
- Tai Chi as an alternative rehabilitation exercise
- Injury prevention for a college dance company.
Announcements
The Physical Therapy Department at URI will participate in the Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS) for the 2009-10 admissions cycle. Applicants for the 2010 entering class can apply online using the PTCAS Web application, beginning on July 15, 2009. To learn more about the PTCAS application process, please visit www.ptcas.org.
Program Highlights
