DPT Student Perceptions about Developing Mentoring Skills: A Progressive Model.

Introduction: Students in doctoral physical therapy (DPT) education must develop professional skills including mentoring. The purpose of this study was to investigate student perceptions of developing mentoring skills within a post-baccalaureate DPT curriculum.

Subjects: Forty students from a physical therapy program participated and completed a survey tool.

Integrating professional behavior development across a professional allied health curriculum.

Professional behaviors are an integral part of clinical practice in all allied health and medical fields. A systematic process for instruction, the education, and development of professional behaviors, cannot be taught in the same way that memorization of human anatomy or medical terminology is taught. One cannot expect professional behaviors to just appear in an individual upon graduation and entry into a health care field.