Revision of the Essential Core Competencies: Domains of Competence and Associated Competencies for Pediatric Physical Therapy Professional Education.

Purpose: The purpose of this Special Communication is to describe the processes of Education Summit III, sponsored by the Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy, with an emphasis on the review, update, and integration of contemporary language and the Competency-Based Education framework into a revision of the Essential Core Competencies (ECCs).

Summary Of Key Points: The Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy has consistently supported pediatric professional education, including sponsoring 3 Education Summits in 2012, 2016, and 2023. The most recent summit focused on a revision of the ECCs and the development of materials to support their implementation.

Excellence in Pediatric Physical Therapy Education: Recommendations and Action Items.

Purpose: This special communication identifies evidence-based recommendations and offers action items to facilitate the uptake of new knowledge from the National Study of Excellence in Pediatric Physical Therapy Education (NSE-Peds).

Summary Of Key Points: The NSE-Peds identified a conceptual framework consisting of 4 key dimensions and associated elements that dynamically interact to prepare future physical therapists to meet the needs of society. The conceptual framework serves as the Knowledge Creation component of the knowledge to action (KTA) framework, but translation into practice requires the Action Cycle, the second component of the KTA framework.

National Study of Excellence in Pediatric Physical Therapy Education: Design, Methods, and Results.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to identify and describe the attributes of excellence and innovation in professional pediatric physical therapy education and develop a conceptual framework identifying dimensions of excellence.

Methods: A multimethod case study design based on a grounded theory framework was used. Data collection included review of artifacts and field interviews (individual and focus group).

Contemporary Practice as a Board-Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist: A Practice Analysis.

Purpose: The purpose of the 2019 practice analysis was to identify the elements of contemporary practice as a board-certified pediatric clinical specialist.

Methods: Consistent with the processes of the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS), a subject matter expert panel used consensus-based processes to develop a survey to gather information concerning the knowledge areas, professional roles and responsibilities, practice expectations, and practice demographics of board-certified pediatric clinical specialists. The web-based survey was divided into 3 parts and administered to 3 separate groups of board-certified pediatric clinical specialists.

Educational Research Priorities for Pediatric Physical Therapy: A Consensus Study.

Purpose: This study engaged stakeholders internal and external to pediatric physical therapy education in a consensus exercise toward determining and refining priorities and considerations for educational research for pediatric physical therapy.

Methods: The Delphi method was used to survey 54 physical therapists from 5 stakeholder groups drawn from experts in the field of physical therapy education and from Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy members invested in educational leadership, research, and/or pediatric physical therapy clinical and residency education.

Results: A 4-round survey process revealed 12 educational research priorities and 13 educational research considerations that reached 80% consensus, with clear and consistent top ranking of 4 of these priorities and 4 considerations across all stakeholder groups.

Organizational Learning in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Learning History.

Introduction: Providing high-quality care to every patient is challenging, particularly in critical care units (CCUs). However, this standard can be achieved through organizational learning. Unfortunately, the process of organizational learning in CCUs is not well understood.

Experiential Learning With Children: An Essential Component of Professional Physical Therapy Education.

Purpose: The Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association has developed a number of resources to support and improve the consistency of professional pediatric physical therapy education, including a set of core competencies that all graduates must attain. The purpose of this article is to advocate for the inclusion of experiential learning activities with children, including children with participation restrictions, as a necessary component to achieve the core competencies.

Key Points: Experiential learning is a form of practice-based education that provides exposures and opportunities for students to explore the work, roles, and identities they will encounter as future professionals.

The effect of experimental stress and experimental occlusal interference on masseteric EMG activity.

This experiment attempted to study the separate and combined effects of occlusal interference and transient stress on masseteric activity among eight nonclinical human subjects. Before each of two sessions, subjects were fitted with an occlusal interference or an occlusally inert (control) molar clasp. During each session they viewed horrific and idyllic videotapes while masseter EMG was recorded bilaterally.

The instantaneous hinge axis - its reproducibility and use as an indicator for dysfunction.

This study investigated irregularities in hinge movement in 113 subjects. These irregularities were analyzed by computer with an instantaneous three-dimensional "screw axis method." The variation in hinge movement was measured by the dispersion of the hinge axis instant centers.

Occlusal forces during chewing and swallowing as measured by sound transmission.

Forces during the phase of occlusal contact during chewing and swallowing are surprisingly high (36.2% and 41%), about 40% of the subject's maximum biting force. Previous studies using transducers in fixed partial dentures measured only a portion of the total force and have given the impression that chewing forces are much less than the data reported in this study.

Chewing patterns in normal children.

Chewing patterns are precisely plotted in deciduous, mixed and permanent dentitions. These show a progression from a large component in the opening movement with a more medial closing path in the deciduous dentition, to a more vertical overall pattern with the closing path lateral to the opening path in the early permanent dentition.

Mandibular movement recordings and articulator adjustments simplified.

Research data from several hundred patient recordings using the Lee method have been utilized to design a simplified jaw movement analyzer and articulator. The study also shows that most patient's movement characteristics can be satisfied with standard preformed articulator controls.

An evaluation of mandibular border movements: their character and significance.

1. A comparison of protrusive and lateral condylar border movement pathways of 163 subjects revealed considerable similarity when the frequency of 80% of the pathways was compared with the average pathway. 2.

A method of transferring mandibular-movement data to computer storage.

A method was briefly described which photographed engraved blocks of mandibular-movement recordings and transferred the information into computer memory. A photographic platform was designed to allow uniform photographing of the engraved blocks. The photographed information was then projected onto graph paper where it was traced.