As I’ve said to other readers, when to enroll in PT programs is a personal decision. Most students enroll after graduating, but others take time off to work, gain additional experiences, or, like me, they didn’t decide to become a PT until after working in other careers. If you don’t get accepted, I recommend asking […]
Jasmine Marcus provides real life examples and excellent advice on how to master your physical therapy school interview. Check out my guest post for a new website called The PT Graduate. In it I cover the basics of the DPT interview: Only two of the DPT schools I applied to held interviews, but from what
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Dr. Jasmine Marcus, PT, DPT is a physical therapist at an outpatient clinic in Upstate New York. She graduated from Columbia University’s program in physical therapy and received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University. Before deciding to become a physical therapist, she was a journalist and the host of a college sports radio
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Your stats sound, good, but they shouldn’t really affect when you apply. You can’t apply for fall 2014 unless you’ve taken the GRE (or plan on taking it this fall), written a good essay, gotten recommendation letters, and finished all or most of your pre-requisite courses. If you have met these and other requirements, then
Although I’m not exactly sure what I want to do when I graduate, I have some general ideas. I’d like to specialize in ortho, so to start I’ll consider whether a residency would be helpful, or if not, I’d like to work in either a private clinic or the outpatient department of a hospital. One
As an undergrad, I majored in psychology and minored in communication, while planning to be a journalist. I changed career paths after graduating and spent a year taking science pre-requisite courses while applying to DPT programs. I did not do a master’s and they have pretty much been phased out in America. The doctorate is
Of course it is! Muscle soreness typically occurs when you use stress a muscle and put microtears in it, which then heal and make you stronger. So while we typically think of soreness happening to muscles like the biceps, It can happen in any muscle, including the several in your butt. And since many people
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I spent six weeks shadowing at a hospital, and it was a great experience. I remember having to call a few different hospitals in my area before I found one that would agree to let me shadow. The “volunteers” are usually people helping out in the hospital as a good deed, rather students than seeking
I’m probably not the most representative person to answer this question since I’m someone who does well on standardized tests. I prepared by buying a couple of GRE books and using them to review math I hadn’t seen since 9th grade and get familiar with the test by taking a few practice exams. But the
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