Program Details
Number of credits in the program
What is 112?
Examples include working with OT on art observation, on-field event with AT, or removing sutures with PA.
What is interprofessional education (IPE)
Why do we use rolling admissions?
To attempt to increase equity and fairness among applicants, recognizing that closing an application early often misses a proportion of diverse applicants. This also gives the committee the opportunity to continually be reassessing processes
Half-day observations attached to Foundational Practice Management I and II, in a variety of settings
What are the integrated clinical experiences (ICE)?
How do we track student progression?
APC tracks via APC alerts, notification letters at end of comp week
The length of clinical education experiences across the program
What is 36 weeks?
50% teaching expectation, other 50% is service and scholarship
What are workload expectations?
Why don't we do interviews?
Bias, cost-prohibitive for those who need to travel, data suggests no difference in student outcomes
Requiring informal program engagement for 2024 application instead!
Why do we use the CIET?
The first time I need to use funds for professional development, etc., I will ask Sara, Eric, or my faculty mentor
Within department, ~$2000 per faculty member, there are some additional institutional funds outside the department
The cost of the program
What is $100,000 (all inclusive)?
Remember this is set by the program, not the institution.
Why does the workload number vary from person to person?
Because some are more lecture heavy, others are more lab lead or lab assist heavy, and some have reassigned time for admin duties.
Why a January start?
Allows for traditional college students to start a semester earlier if they graduate early, also allows for traditional college students to finish prerequisite coursework in semester preceding NCC DPT start, students have more time before the start date to work, settle, and take a short break from classes
Selling point for admissions when competing against other schools in the upper Midwest area, we are "off cycle" compared to other programs
How do students choose clinical placements?
What is the process for complaints?
If the department receives a complaint about a faculty, staff, or student in the program, the complaint should be referred to the Department Chair. If the complaint is against the Chair, the complaint should go to the Dean of the School of Education and Health Science. All complaints must be submitted in writing. Steps for managing the complaint are outlined below. Information regarding this process is outlined in the PT Department Standard Operating Procedures manual (Page 80).
An hour of lecture, an hour of lab lead, or two hours of lab assisting
What is a credit hour?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
How do you demonstrate contemporary expertise in topics across your course?
All must answer individually. Examples include ConEd, certifications, clinical practice, bringing in others across campus as needed.
Also a certified human being.
Yes - we currently have a waitlist. Applicants are ranked by their overall application score. If spots open up, we go down the list to make offers. For the first few cycles we will not admit more than 48 - using the first few years to gather data to determine matriculation rate.
What would prevent a student from progressing to a clinical experience?
What will happen if a student fails an exam or assignment in your course? What will happen if they fail the entire course?
Failing an assignment or course results in an APC alert which goes to the APC/assessment coordinator.
Repeating Courses: Institutional policy allows graduate students to repeat courses. In the DPT Program, a student who does not pass a course is subject to dismissal. They may only repeat the course if they are granted their appeal to stay in the program. The faculty of the DPT Program have chosen to have a stricter policy on repeating courses, to limit the potential for a student to incur excessive educational debt without completing the degree.
Probation and Dismissal: The DPT program does allow one No Pass grade in a non-credited course, of which there are six for competency assessment purposes. The DPT policy associates probation with a No Pass grade in a non-credit competency course, or a No Pass grade in a credited course where the student won their appeal to repeat the course. A student would remain on probation until they have met their Plan for Success (e.g., learning contract) or, in the case of a credited course, passed the course. The general degree requirements for the DPT program require students to pass all credited courses.
The ranking of NCC DPT cost compared to other local institutions
What is right in the middle?
Highly integrated content
Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Anatomy, Kinesiology, Lifespan
Academics, Experiences (Academic/PT and Lived), Essays, DEI, Letters of Rec
What are the components of the admissions rubric?
How do we show Clinical Readiness?
Students assessed on the 8 domains of competence each semester, need to meet the expected level to go on the clinical experience
What do you anticipate the performance evaluation process will be like? Will you receive feedback from anyone other than Dr. Scholtes?
Faculty will receive an email from the Department Chair in December each year reminding them of the need to complete the following items: CV, immunization updates, licensure/CPR/campus training info as needed, answers to evaluative questions from dept. chair, schedule a meeting with dept. chair.
Core faculty members complete the formal evaluation process required of all full-time faculty at North Central College on an annual basis. All faculty enter teaching, mentoring, scholarly activity, and service information into Faculty 180, a web-based information management system enabling the collection, organization, sharing, analysis, and presentation of data. Faculty also upload into Faculty 180 three goals for the next calendar year. The Physical Therapy Department Chair, Dean of the School of Education and Health Sciences, and Provost all complete written reviews of the faculty member as part of the formal, annual faculty review process. The Promotion and Tenure Committee also review midterm and 6th year extended reviews.