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Contact Information:
Physical Therapy Education Office
Education Building 855
(651)690-7825
Fax: (651)690-7876
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Transitional DPT Course Objectives
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
Medical and Behavioral Science:
- Identify and name major anatomical structures of the musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, and neurologic systems identified on imaging.
- Given selected medical diagnoses, discuss the implications of that pathology on imaging findings as it relates to physical therapy management.
Practice Environment:
- Define and understand terminology related to imaging
- Discuss the instrumentation and technology used in common imaging techniques
- Compare the advantages/disadvantages and indications for use of one imaging technique over other imaging choices.
- Incorporate imaging findings into patient/client management.
- Effectively document the summary of imaging results in patient/client management.
- Appreciate the various types of neurologic, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal pathologies using various imaging techniques.
- Recognize the appearance of normal bone and soft tissue in various imaging techniques.
- Formulate physical therapy intervention plan of care based upon imaging results.
- Successfully use the Internet to search for imaging case study examples in neurology, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal medicine.
- Discuss the role of the physical therapist as a component of the health care team that incorporates imaging findings into patient/client management.
APPLICATION OF EVIDENCE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY PRACTICE
upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Establish the habit of asking relevant, important, and well structured clinical questions
- Search the literature for the best evidence for specific patients / interventions
- Analyze these studies for:
a. Validity of the methods
b. Importance of the results
c. Applicability to your patient
- Integrate this new knowledge in clinical practice
- Promote Evidence-Based Practice in clinical environments
- Evaluate outcome measures according to psychometric properties of reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change.
a. Discuss application of reliable, valid, and responsive outcome measures for individual patients.
b. Standard error of measurement (SEM)
c. Minimum detectable change
- Evaluate the reliability and validity of tests and measures to assess current status and to determine the effectiveness of interventions based on research and professional literature.
- Make clinical judgements on individual patients based on evaluation of findings and analysis of ongoing outcomes data in the context of current best practice derived from evidence (e.g., scientific literature and professional practice patterns).
- Apply principles of evidence-based practice to specific diagnostic tests relating to the lower extremity, including sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios.
- Locate and evaluate systematic reviews in the context of Evidence-Based Practice to support a topic related to clinical patients.
a. Discuss and interpret the application and findings of a systematic review
b. Contrast a systematic vs. a narrative review.
c. Discuss the components of a systematic review.
d. Discuss why systematic reviews are categorized as primary research while traditional narrative reviews are considered secondary research.
e. Discuss limitations of systematic reviews
- Understand and describe the basic components of critically appraised topics (CATS).
- Integrate research findings from multiple research studies in the form of a CAT.
- Discuss epidemiological principles, incidence, prevalence, and relative risk.
a. Interpret relative risk and odds ratios.
b. Identify and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of case control vs. cohort study designs.
- Read and interpret literature regarding risk factors in PT practice.
- Identify research studies that may be used to guide prognosis.
- State the purpose of correlation and regression to guide prognosis
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