In this 3-part webinar series Sarah and Andra will explore the benefits of an integrative approach to the complex patient that puts understanding stress at the core of caregiving. Part one dives into the science of stress - the nuances of stress physiology, health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, and the social determinants of health. Part two advocates for shifts in PT assessments and interventions that we can implement when we see our patients through the lens of stress science. This approach is aligned with the principles of trauma-informed care and biopsychosocial models. Part three discusses barriers to adopting this approach, opportunities for the PT profession to implement integrative models, and important boundaries and self-care for practitioners taking on comprehensive caregiving.

Interested in the full series - click here.

Learning Objectives:

1. Construct rationale for an integrative approach to care of the complex patient

2. Summarize stress physiology and its relevance to clinical PT practice

3. Evaluate how positive, tolerable, and toxic stress impact clinical PT practice

4. Analyze protective and risk factors for stress related sequelae

5. Explore the applicability of the ACEs Study to clinical PT practice

6. Explain allostatic load and its relevance to clinical PT practice

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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Primary Care physical therapy offers many challenges and opportunities for physical therapists.  This course offers recommendations to help develop rapport with Primary Care staff as well as ways to increase the Primary Care PTs caseload.

Learning Objectives:

1. Analyze the most common communication options in Primary Care.
2. Share examples of a musculoskeletal review class that can be shared with Primary Care staff.
3. Discuss the benefits of discussing injuries with staff in Primary Care.
4. Highlight the benefits of Primary Care staff/students observing the PT in Primary Care.
5. Provide example handouts that may be used in Primary Care to build rapport with staff.
6. Discuss beneficial Primary Care meetings for the PT to attend.
7. Highlight ten strategies to increase Primary Care caseload.
8. Review the importance of issuing durable medical equipment (DME) in Primary Care.
9. Review sample case scenarios highlighting strategies to build rapport with staff.

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Why do we need to change our direction?

• We are not being honest with people seeking care.
• We are prioritising low-value and high-cost procedures on an industrial scale.
• The provision of healthcare is inequitable and unsustainable. 

How as a profession can we provide better care to the communities we are serving?

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Congratulations on beginning to prepare for renewal of accreditation from ABPTRFE. ABPTRFE strives to provide comprehensive support to Program Directors throughout this 11-month long process. This Accreditation Workshop is designed to remind you of the process and provide helpful hints as you prepare the Self-Evaluation Report and corresponding Exhibits. Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking renewal of accreditation, and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Congratulations for taking the first step in initial accreditation by applying for, and seeking, candidacy from ABPTRFE. ABPTRFE strives to provide comprehensive support to Program Directors throughout this 23 month long process. This Candidacy Workshop is designed to familiarize you with the process and provide helpful hints as you prepare the initial Self-Evaluation Report and corresponding Exhibits. Throughout this workshop, we will review the steps in seeking candidacy and offer some guidance to provide programs with the best possible opportunity for success.

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This training course is required for all individuals who will complete the APTA Resident Competency Evaluation Instrument. This course familiarizes users with the evaluation instrument and consists of 5 modules: (1) introduction, (2) core competencies defined, (3) rating scale and definitions, (4) significant concerns - providing comments, and (5) instrument administration and copyright laws.

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Through a highly self-reflective approach, participants will learn about identity, privilege, bias, and allyship as foundational pillars to understanding how to achieve DEI. Participants will engage in self-reflection throughout the series to apply concepts to their clinical and personal lives with the overall goal of creating more respectful and inclusive environments.

NOTE: All 3 parts must be completed sequentially in order to receive CEUs.

Part 1: Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions

A large part of advancing EDI is understanding our biases. Exploring unconscious bias is a critical starting point to understanding structural inequity and why some maintain power and influence and others are held back, despite our best intentions. Participants learn where individual unconscious biases come from and how they collectively manifest to continue advantaging some and disadvantaging others. Participants explore their own biases and how to start mitigating the negative effects of those biases.

Learning Objectives

1. What unconscious bias is and where it comes from

2. How it plays out in our lives and effects personal and professional decision-making, especially in healthcare settings

3. How to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias

Part 2: Power, Privilege and Microaggressions

The second part of this series presents foundational information on identity, power, and privilege to understand how some identities hold more or less power and privilege in society, and in clinical settings. Identities that carry more power create dominant cultures in society, which both intentionally and unintentionally oppress or disadvantage others, often in the form of microaggressions. Participants learn that a culture of respect and accountability is created and maintained through everyday acts of allyship, small and large, and explore how these can be integrated into the clinical environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Reflect on one's various identities

2. Learn which identities carry more power and create dominant cultures

3. Understand how bias, identity, and privilege manifest as microaggressive behavior and comments towards others

Part 3: Responding to Microaggressions through Allyship

Equity and inclusion can thrive and grow when everyone plays a part in creating respectful and safe environments. This workshop continues exploring concepts related to allyship and how participants can support those around them. It presents allyship and bystander intervention frameworks to engage participants in thinking about how they can intervene in situations where harm is occurring. Participants gather both bystander intervention skills as well as generate ideas for how to institutionalize allyship behaviors for maximum impact.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand authentic allyship traits and practices through ally frameworks.

2. Explore responding to microaggressions as an ally.

3. Discover bystander intervention strategies to reduce harm.

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recordings.
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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This 3-part webinar series will explore the benefits of an integrative approach to the complex patient that puts understanding stress at the core of caregiving. Part one dives into the science of stress - the nuances of stress physiology, health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, and the social determinants of health. Part two advocates for shifts in PT assessments and interventions that we can implement when we see our patients through the lens of stress science. This approach is aligned with the principles of trauma-informed care and biopsychosocial models. Part three discusses barriers to adopting this approach, opportunities for the PT profession to implement integrative models, and important boundaries and self-care for practitioners taking on comprehensive caregiving.

Interested in the whole series - click here.

Learning Objectives

1. Construct rationale for an integrative approach to care of the complex patient

2. Summarize stress physiology and its relevance to clinical PT practice

3. Evaluate how positive, tolerable, and toxic stress impact clinical PT practice

4.Analyze protective and risk factors for stress related sequelae

5. Explore the applicability of the ACEs Study to clinical PT practice

6. Explain allostatic load and its relevance to clinical PT practice

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

A rising trend in the practice of physical therapy is the use of telehealth and mobile health technology. However, maintaining patient privacy is an important consideration that must not be overlooked. Physical therapists need to know how to comply with regulations established by HIPAA as well as the APTA Code of Ethics.

Learning Objectives

1. Clearly identify the legal and ethical implications for technology application in practice

2. Recognize need to address legal/ethical concerns in technology use in practice

3. Comprehend strategies to ensure HIPAA compliance

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. 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.
3. 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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This course will focus on compliant documentation utilizing the Medicare’ Documentation Requirements as published in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual and the APTA Defensible Documentation. It will not only address specific content requirements but also the consequences of not complying with these regulations. Special attention will be afforded to effective drafting of Plans of Care, differentiating the evaluation from a progress report, the purpose of the treatment encounter note and ultimately how to document in a way that tells the ‘whole’ story without writing a book.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the difference between the "evaluation in the initial examination with that" in the progress report

2.Articulate when and how to use the "Delayed Plan of Care" provision

3. Execute a compliant Treatment Encounter Note

4. Capture relevant evaluative findings and document to justify skilled intervention

5. Identify documentation deficiencies that lead to denials, refunds, and/or sanctions

You can purchase Part 2 here.

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. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org.