PT Role As Employee - Professional Development Flashcards
What are the three domains that influence professional identify formation
Individual — who am i
Relational — who am i in relation to others
Collective — who am i in relation to the profession
Going from PT graduate to early professional
- Professional learning that occurs during early years of clinical practice is essential part of growth and development for PTS
- New PTs experience multiple stages during the early professional process including transition, euphoria, angst, recognizing, and reconciling the realities of practice and adaptation
- New PTs in first years of practice are strongly influenced, either positively or negatively, by clinical environment they practice in
- New PTs who had identified a mentor in the first year felt they progressed more rapidly
- During first year most powerful learning occurs through DOING
What is professional development
Encompasses the entire scope of one’s career beginning with professional education and continuing through one’s professional life span.
An ongoing process of assessment and planned actions that provide the opportunity for maintaining and expanding knowledge and skills based on evidence, and self-reflection about and facilitation of professional core values
When do you renew your license
Sept 30 on even years
Evaluating continue education
- Clearly identified target audience
- Clearly identified instructional level (basic, intermediate, advanced)
- Stated learning outcomes
- Clearly delineated program description or outline
- Content is described based on best available evidence in practice
- Clearly identified faculty qualifications
- Clearly identified source and number of CEUs
- Reasonable fee compared with other programs
- Course title that represents the program content.
Residencies
401 accredited programs
Combines opportunities for ongoing mentoring, formal feedback, and informal feedback to the physical therapist resident.
Goal for residency
Program is to have increased work in a specialized advanced practice area
Program’s curriculum must cover the entire corresponding Descriptions of Specialty Practice
Minimum of 150 hours of 1:1 mentoring and 75 hours of didactic instruction — know this
Fellowships
48 accredited programs
Combines opportunities for ongoing mentoring and formal and informal feedback to the physical therapist fellow-in-training, including required written and live patient practical examinations.
Goal of fellowships
- Fellowships should have a curriculum based in one or more sub speciality areas
- Subspecialized programs must include post-professional education and training in the scientific principles underlying practice applications
- Minimum of 100 hours of 1:1 mentoring and 50 hours of advanced didactic instruction within an area of sub specialty over the course of the program — know this
Residency vs. Fellowship
Residency
- designed to advance therapist’s expertise in a defined area of clinical practice and includes non-clinical aspects related to sub specialty services, education, research, and conferences.
- Often designed to prepare individuals to become board-certified clinical specialists
- Usually for newer professionals
Fellowships
- designed to provide greater depth within a sub speciality area
- Not really for new professionals
- applicants must demonstrate prior to application one of the following: specialist certification, completion of residency, clinical skills.
Elements of clinical specialization
- Formalized process to recognize PTs with advanced clinical knowledge, experience, and skills in a special area of practice
- Voluntary process
- Non-restrictive process
- Assist consumers in health care community in identifying PTs who are specialists
What is required for clinical specialization
Broad based foundation in education and clinical practice, depth, and breadth of knowledge in a specialty area, advanced clinical expertise and skills.
Purpose of clinical specialization
Recognize specialists through established testing methods, promote the highest possible level of PT care and ongoing development of the specialty practice, inform stakeholders of PTs who are certified in a specialty area
Requirements for application for clinical specialization
- Application must demonstrate 2000 hours of direct patient care in the clinical specialty area (25% in last 3 years)
OR evidence of successful completion of APTA approved post-professional residency program - Some speciality areas require extra stuff.
- Exam is 200 questions and have 7 hours to do it.
How long is specialty valid for
10 years
- each 3 year period provide evidence of 200 hours of direct patient care in speciality, accrual of 10 Maintenence of specialty certification credits in 2 of 3 categories, reflective portfolio
*each 10 years there is a 100 item re-cert exam
