National Study Examining Excellence and Value in Physical Therapist Residency Education: Part 1-Design, Methods, and Results.

Objective: A challenge in health professions is training practitioners to navigate health care complexities, promote health, optimize outcomes, and advance their field. Physical therapist residency education offers a pathway to meet these needs in ways that "entry-level" (professional) education may not. Identifying key aspects of excellence in residency education and understanding its value in developing adaptive expertise will help devise strategies to enhance program, resident, and patient outcomes.

National Study Examining Excellence and Value in Physical Therapist Residency Education: Part 2-A Call to Action.

This Perspective provides a crucial set of actions with corresponding recommendations aimed at propelling the physical therapy profession toward excellence in residency education. The conceptual model includes elements of excellence in the delivery and outcomes of physical therapist residency education and the domain of value experienced by stakeholders impacted by physical therapist residency education. Linked to the conceptual model, the 15 actions, and 28 recommendations draw from (1) the Physical Therapist Residency Excellence and Value (PT-REV) study, (2) the Physical Therapist Education for the 21st Century (PTE-21) study, and (3) research in the learning sciences.

No More Excuses: Strategies for Inclusive Pediatric Physical Therapy Education.

Purpose: The purpose of this special communication is to provide practical, evidence-based recommendations and examples of inclusive and accessible teaching practices that can be effectively used in pediatric physical therapy (PT) education to: (1) ensure equity in education, (2) elevate all voices, and (3) facilitate anti-oppressive learning environments.

Summary Of Key Points: Concrete action items and strategies addressing these 3 recommendations are provided at all levels of the ecological model framework.

Statement Of Conclusions And Recommendations For Clinical Practice: Pediatric PT clinical and academic educators must work proactively to ensure learning environments are inclusive of everyone.

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.

An analysis of interagency collaboration: Lessons learned from Colorado's early intervention program.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe interagency collaboration in Part C Early Intervention (EI) programs.

Methods: Between 18 April and 9 May 2022, 48 EI service coordinators (SCs) from 14 programs in one state completed adapted versions of the Interagency Collaboration Activities Scale (IACAS) and Relational Coordination Survey (RCS). Assessing perceptions of shared structures (IACAS) and coordination quality (RCS), these combined measures summarized interagency collaboration with 11 organizations.

Identifying Perspectives on Physical Therapist Residency Program Goals: Hallmarks of Success and Excellence.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe common perspectives important to achieving excellence and success in physical therapist residency education programs.

Methods: Individuals with direct responsibility for creating and revising physical therapist residency program goals participated in a mixed-methods study using Q-methodology. They sorted 31 goal topics based on the level of importance for achieving excellence and success in physical therapist residency education.

Changing Practice: Clinical Application of Resistance Training Evidence for Children With Cerebral Palsy.

Purpose: Describe the development and application of a progressive resistance exercise (PRE) program for children with cerebral palsy (CP), which became a standard care model at an urban specialty hospital network.

Summary Of Key Points: Muscle structure and performance have been shown to impact function and participation in children with CP. Use of PRE to achieve function and participation goals is supported by a growing body of evidence.

Working and short-term memory in children with ADHD: an examination of prefrontal cortical functioning using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Working memory impairments are an oft-reported deficit among children with ADHD, and complementary neuroimaging studies implicate reductions in prefrontal cortex (PFC) structure and function as a neurobiological explanation. Most imaging studies, however, rely on costly, movement-intolerant, and/or invasive methods to examine cortical differences. This is the first study to use a newer neuroimaging tool that overcomes these limitations, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), to investigate hypothesized prefrontal differences.

Collaborative Therapist-Patient Decision Making: A Power-Based Exercise Program for an Adolescent With CMT1A.

Purpose: The purpose of this case report is to describe an episode of care for an adolescent with Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT) using a power-based progressive resistance exercise (PRE) and balance program to improve performance of participant-defined goals with added description through the voice of the patient as "participant lived experience."

Summary Of Key Points: Participant discussion demonstrates improvement of functional performance for an adolescent with CMT subtype 1A (CMT1A), a progressive neuromuscular disorder. Function and participation-specific movement observation, clinical evaluation, and resistance training fostered appropriate program design and intervention dosing.

An Assessment of Essential Anatomy Course Content in an Entry-Level Doctor of Physical Therapy Program.

Unlabelled: Anatomical knowledge is the foundation of the educational curricula in most healthcare programs. The varying scopes of practice between healthcare professions require anatomy educators to determine what content is essential to cover in a finite time with learners. When possible, the anatomy educator bases this decision on clinical experiences; this is a more significant challenge for the non-clinician educator teaching in a health profession curriculum.

The How and the Why of Including Children: Experiential Learning in Teaching Physical Therapist Students.

Purpose: This study describes experiential learning (EL) activities with children and the rationale for using EL. Experiential learning with children in entry-level doctor of physical therapy (DPT) education has not been described.

Methods: Eighteen pediatric educators from accredited DPT programs participated in semistructured, in-depth interviews.

Attention Control in Children With ADHD: An Investigation Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Attention problems are a predominant contributor to near- and far-term functional outcomes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, most interventions focus on improving the alerting attentional network, which has failed to translate into improved learning for a majority of children with ADHD. Comparatively less is known regarding the executive attentional network and its overarching attention control process, which governs the ability to maintain relevant information in a highly active, interference-free state, and is intrinsic to a broad range of cognitive functions. This is the first study to compare attention control abilities in children with ADHD and typically developing (TD) children using the Visual Array Task (VAT) and to simultaneously measure hemodynamic functioning (oxyHb) using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Changing the Paradigm of School-Based Physical Therapist Service Delivery: Using Evidence to Support Intensive Intervention.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to highlight the paradigm shift away from the typical model of direct service delivery of consistent frequency and duration in the school setting to accommodate an intensive progressive resistive exercise intervention. School-based physical therapists describe how they applied an evidence-based intensive intervention with multiple students in an urban public school district.

Summary Of Key Points: The school-based physical therapists had to modify the typical service delivery model and overcome other challenges to implement this intensive intervention approach.

Experiential Learning in Pediatric Physical Therapist Education: Challenges and Facilitators.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct an in-depth investigation of physical therapist educators' challenges to and facilitators of the use of experiential learning (EL) with children. Although EL with children has been called an essential component of doctor of physical therapy (DPT) education, variability in the amount of EL used among DPT programs indicates that educators may experience different challenges and facilitators of the use of EL.

Methods: Eighteen pediatric DPT educators participated in a semistructured interview.

Experiential Learning in Pediatric Physical Therapist Education: Faculty and Student Perceptions.

Subjects: Faculty teaching pediatric content in accredited doctor of physical therapy programs was recruited; 106 responded. Students representing 20 participating programs were also invited to participate; 23 responded.

Methods: Participants received an online questionnaire including closed- and open-ended questions regarding EL with children.

Working Memory Capacity and ADHD Symptoms in Boys: Examining the Heterogeneity of Working Memory Functioning Using Latent Profile Analysis.

Recent studies demonstrate that working memory (WM) is integral to etiological models of ADHD; however, significant questions persist regarding the relation between WM performance across tasks with varying cognitive demands and ADHD symptoms. The current study incorporates an individual differences approach to WM heterogeneity (i.e.

Quality of Life and Functional Mobility After Progressive Resistance Exercise in an Adolescent With a Liver Transplant.

Purpose: This case report describes physical therapy intervention using progressive resistance exercise (PRE) with the recipient of a liver transplant to improve physical fitness, quality of life, and functional mobility.

Summary Of Key Points: Outpatient physical therapy intervention included 2 phases, 10 weeks each, focused on functional training and PRE-based power training and functional tasks. Secondary conditions included excessive weight gain, adjustment disorder, and intensive scarring.

ADHD and hyperactivity: The influence of cognitive processing demands on gross motor activity level in children.

Excessive gross motor activity is a prominent feature of children with ADHD, and accruing evidence indicates that their gross motor activity is significantly higher in situations associated with high relative to low working memory processing demands. It remains unknown, however, whether children's gross motor activity rises to an absolute level or accelerates incrementally as a function of increasingly more difficult cognitive processing demands imposed on the limited capacity working memory (WM) system - a question of both theoretical and applied significance. The present investigation examined the activity level of 8- to 12-year-old children with ADHD ( = 36) and Typically Developing (TD) children ( = 24) during multiple experimental conditions: a control condition with no storage and negligible WM processing demands; a short-term memory (STM) storage condition; and a sequence of WM conditions that required both STM and incrementally more difficult higher-order cognitive processing.

Development of a Grading Rubric to Assess Learning in Pediatric Physical Therapy Education.

The purpose of this perspective article is to describe the development and potential use of a grading rubric to assess pediatric psychomotor and clinical reasoning skills in professional pediatric physical therapist students. Feedback from focus groups made up of pediatric physical therapy educators informed development of the rubric. In addition, preliminary reliability and feasibility of the rubric were evaluated using videotaped student performance on a related pediatric case.

Written expression in boys with ADHD: The mediating roles of working memory and oral expression.

The written expression difficulties experienced by children with ADHD are widely recognized; however, scant empirical evidence exists concerning the cognitive mechanisms and processes underlying these deficiencies. The current study investigated the independent and potentially interactive contributions of two developmentally antecedent cognitive processes - viz., working memory (WM) and oral expression - hypothesized to influence written expression ability in boys.