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Letter From the Dean
Hello –
Welcome once again to our Department. We are delighted that you are interested in Clarkson University and its Department of Physical Therapy. I’d like to use this opportunity to present my personal view of physical therapy, physical therapists – the experts in human movement, and how physical therapy fits in health care.
Physical Therapy is a profession of freedoms. As physical therapists we work with our patients/clients to assist them in attaining the highest physical function possible, enhancing their freedom of activity and independence in living. This occurs through efforts to improve wellness, avoid injury or illness, or to eliminate or minimize the effects of injury or illness by overcoming functional limitations.
As physical therapists, we have the freedom to work as autonomous professionals – a potential practitioner of first choice for the public who works collaboratively with other health professionals – in a large variety of environments to provide our services. As a doctoring profession, our capabilities are valued by our patients/clients and health professional colleagues. We serve a wide variety of clients in many different environments. In an era when many people change careers, let alone jobs, during the course of their working lifetime, physical therapy is a profession that provides a wide array of experiences and challenges to keep you energized throughout your professional life.
Clarkson University provides a rigorous, highly respected path to the goal of becoming a physical therapist. Because physical therapy education occurs at the graduate level throughout the United States, your path must include an undergraduate major before your physical therapy graduate school experience. At Clarkson, you have the freedom to choose any undergraduate major offered at Clarkson. As a Clarkson undergraduate student, you have a place reserved for you in the graduate program*, allowing you the freedom to learn without the stresses of peer competition. Our commitment to you as a student in both your undergraduate and graduate school experience provides you the freedom to achieve your professional doctoral degree in physical therapy at Clarkson.
*Assuming successful completion of all required courses:
C- or better in individual required courses.
GPA of 3.0 or better for all required courses.
GPA or 3.0 or better overall.
Scott D. Minor, P.T., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Health Sciences
Chairman, Department of Physical Therapy
Clarkson University – Department of Physical Therapy
Freedom to explore, freedom to learn, freedom to grow, freedom to achieve your goals.
ACCREDITATION STATUS
The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) accredited Clarkson University's graduate physical therapy professional curriculum on October 24, 2001. The State Education Department of the University of the State of New York approved Clarkson University’s graduate physical therapy as the Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) on April 21, 1999, and the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) on May 18, 2005.
Welcome once again to our Department. We are delighted that you are interested in Clarkson University and its Department of Physical Therapy. I’d like to use this opportunity to present my personal view of physical therapy, physical therapists – the experts in human movement, and how physical therapy fits in health care.
Physical Therapy is a profession of freedoms. As physical therapists we work with our patients/clients to assist them in attaining the highest physical function possible, enhancing their freedom of activity and independence in living. This occurs through efforts to improve wellness, avoid injury or illness, or to eliminate or minimize the effects of injury or illness by overcoming functional limitations.
As physical therapists, we have the freedom to work as autonomous professionals – a potential practitioner of first choice for the public who works collaboratively with other health professionals – in a large variety of environments to provide our services. As a doctoring profession, our capabilities are valued by our patients/clients and health professional colleagues. We serve a wide variety of clients in many different environments. In an era when many people change careers, let alone jobs, during the course of their working lifetime, physical therapy is a profession that provides a wide array of experiences and challenges to keep you energized throughout your professional life.
Clarkson University provides a rigorous, highly respected path to the goal of becoming a physical therapist. Because physical therapy education occurs at the graduate level throughout the United States, your path must include an undergraduate major before your physical therapy graduate school experience. At Clarkson, you have the freedom to choose any undergraduate major offered at Clarkson. As a Clarkson undergraduate student, you have a place reserved for you in the graduate program*, allowing you the freedom to learn without the stresses of peer competition. Our commitment to you as a student in both your undergraduate and graduate school experience provides you the freedom to achieve your professional doctoral degree in physical therapy at Clarkson.
*Assuming successful completion of all required courses:
C- or better in individual required courses.
GPA of 3.0 or better for all required courses.
GPA or 3.0 or better overall.
Scott D. Minor, P.T., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Health Sciences
Chairman, Department of Physical Therapy
Clarkson University – Department of Physical Therapy
Freedom to explore, freedom to learn, freedom to grow, freedom to achieve your goals.
ACCREDITATION STATUS
The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) accredited Clarkson University's graduate physical therapy professional curriculum on October 24, 2001. The State Education Department of the University of the State of New York approved Clarkson University’s graduate physical therapy as the Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) on April 21, 1999, and the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) on May 18, 2005.