UUÖ±²¥

I believe that the USF's DPT program is unique in the fact that it is a inter professional program. This means that the physical therapy students and medical students are combined for basic science courses for the first year of school. This gives the physical therapist a more in depth education about the human body to help them have a more in depth knowledge to help them be successful while practicing. This also promotes inter professionalism within the health care system. PT's better understand... Read More what M.D.'s do and vice versa. This will lead to better overall health care for patients in the future by allowing the proper health care provider to manage certain conditions or parts of a patients treatment. The location of the school is great and there is an abundant of activities to do around the area. Also the DPT staff is very knowledgeable and easy to approach when help is needed by students. Negatives about this program can also be the inter professional program. There are times that knowledge learned from medical school is not transferred over to the physical therapy side so students do not understand why the information is relevant to them. There are times that professors at the medical school also forget that there are physical therapist in attendance and expect us to know information that we don't, or only make the content applicable to the medical students. I would also say that the work load for the first year is very intensive compared to other friends who attended other DPT programs. I also believe that the communicate at the DPT program could use improvement when communicating schedules to the students and better inform incoming freshman about their program. The method in which they choose clinical rotations is also very disliked by the students and there are not many locations outside Florida available.