In an ever-evolving healthcare arena, it can be easy to feel limited in your abilities to impact the world around you.  This course will use the Core Values for the Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant as a scaffolding for building confidence in leadership and influence opportunities for PTAs in and beyond the clinical setting.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify student characteristics that may cause a professional education program to consider including a behavioral assessment as part of the admissions process.

2. Describe methodology for design of a comprehensive behavioral admissions process.

3. Identify areas in which admission standards do or do not address behavioral issues common in PTA students.

4. Formulate ideas for assessing common behavioral issues seen in PTA students prior to admission to the PTA program.

5. Describe current PTA program admissions processes found in the literature.

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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