Clinical Education

About WSSU DPT Clinical Education

The rigorous 3-year DPT program challenges and develops students throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall semesters of each year. Clinical Education experiences offered at over 300 locations are interspersed throughout the curriculum. Students spend a total of 36 weeks at four different clinical rotations under the direct supervision of highly experienced and dynamic clinical instructors. The first clinical learning experience, Clinical Education I, is an 8-week clinical rotation in the Spring semester of the 2nd year. Clinical Education II is another 8-week clinical rotation that takes place in the Fall semester of the 2nd year. In the 2nd half of the 3rd year's Summer semester, students go out on a 10-week clinical rotation (Clinical Education III), followed by a final 10-week clinical rotation (Clinical Education IV), wrapping up the program at the end of the Fall semester of the 3rd year. 

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The Department of Physical Therapy is committed to providing equitable opportunities for students to be able to demonstrate and implement clinical skills learned throughout the program, while serving across diverse patient populations and in a variety of clinical settings. External clinical partners are instrumental in providing valuable, educational experiences that allow students to not only practice learned skills, but also to evaluate and self-reflect on clinical decision-making, and to absorb constructive feedback from Clinical Instructors with expertise in that area of practice. Serving an essential role within the clinical education student experience, Clinical Instructors help to educate, mentor, and promote student growth into becoming qualified and distinguished physical therapists.