Department Philosophy

Faculty Commitments

The faculty of the Department of Physical Therapy enacts the philosophy by:

1. Participating in this collaborative model of education and creating a learning atmosphere typified by unity in diversity. Faculty model professional identities from both a discipline-specific and an interdisciplinary perspective, and engage in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching, scholarship and clinical professional service, resulting in education that is more visionary than if undertaken separately.
2. Constructing learning environments that are secure and open, and in which students and faculty share responsibility for meeting educational goals.
3. Serving as guides and facilitators who inspire and challenge students to become competent professionals with a life-long commitment to sound clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
4. Conducting and reporting research affecting the depth and breadth of physical therapist practice.
5. Contributing to the development of health care policy as it relates to physical therapist practice at the state and national levels.
6. Providing a professional program of excellence.