PT 755 - Principles of Teaching & Learning in PT

2 cr.

This course presents teaching and learning theories and styles, and the role of the PT as a teacher. This course includes teaching in the clinical setting, health promotion and compliance, cultural assessment for learning, formulating goals and objectives with patient and family input, assessment of the patient’s ability to learn, designing patient education programs, evaluating patient outcomes from the education process, community education, and teaching psychomotor skills; all across the lifespan. Emphasis on writing goals and objectives as well as preparing and presenting a research paper.