Effect of Physical Therapy Students' Clinical Experiences on Clinician Productivity.

Background: Physical therapy clinical education experiences (CEEs) are difficult to secure, particularly first-level CEEs. Our purpose was to determine 1) what impact student full-time CEEs have on PT clinician productivity and 2) whether there is a productivity difference between first vs final CEEs.

Methods: Productivity logs, including possible factors impacting productivity, were distributed to clinician-student pairings on first and final CEEs.

Validity of the stroke rehabilitation assessment of movement scale in acute rehabilitation: a comparison with the functional independence measure and stroke impact scale-16.

Objective: To demonstrate sensitivity to change of the Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement (STREAM) as well as the concurrent and predictive validity of the STREAM in an acute rehabilitation setting.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Acute, in-patient rehabilitation department within a tertiary-care teaching hospital in the United States.

Pedagogical tools to develop clinical reasoning: physical therapy students' perspective.

Physical therapy students' perspective about the development of clinical decision making ability was solicited to determine: 1) if actual clinical and academic learning experiences are consistent with student preferences; and 2) if actual academic learning experiences differ according to subject matter. Program representatives contacted physical therapy students via email with an embedded link to an on-line survey during their final clinical education experiences. Open-ended and forced-choice items addressed reactions to learning experiences to develop clinical reasoning in academic and final clinical education experiences.