APTA Career Transitions in Physical Therapy: Understanding Your Professional Role Identity

Prepare for your next career move with a stronger understanding of your professional role identity and how it can support successful career transitions in physical therapy.

Explore the components of professional role identity, common sources of role conflict, and the role of identity work during career transitions. Through self-assessment and reflection, evaluate how your strengths and professional identity align with the demands of a new role and develop an intentional plan for future career transitions.

What You’ll Learn

By completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Define your professional role identity and the factors that shape it.
• Identify common causes and manifestations of role conflict during career transitions.
• Assess your professional role identity, strengths, and areas of potential conflict.
• Analyze potential career transitions by comparing your professional identity with the demands of a new role.
• Develop an intentional plan to support successful career role transitions.

Course Highlights

• Flexible online learning: Complete this self-paced course on your schedule and revisit course content as needed.
• Guided self-assessment: Reflect on your professional role identity, strengths, and potential areas of role conflict.
• Career transition planning: Apply concepts of professional role identity, congruence, and role demands to plan for future career transitions.
• Earn CEUs: 0.15 CEUs (1.5 contact hours)

Registration Rates

• APTA member PTs, PTAs, post-professionals, and students: Free
• Nonmembers: Free

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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