APTA's drive for post-graduate clinicals and required residencies

I just attended the CPTA conference in San Diego, and wanted to start a discussion on what Dr. Ola Grimsby discussed during Sunday's keynote address. In summary, in order for our profession to be truly autonomous and taken seriously is to raise the bar for physical therapist education. They feel that new grads are not clinically competent. The APTA's proposed structure for DPT registration is this: 2-2.5 years of professional education with didactic clinicals 8-12 weeks in length... APTA's drive for post-graduate clinicals and required residencies
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