APTA’s Clinical Instructor Education and Credentialing Program (CIECP) recently achieved a new milestone. More than 25,500 physical therapist and physical therapist assistant credentialed clinical instructors (CIs) and more than 1,000 nonphysical therapy health professionals have now taken the course. This 15 contact-hour didactic content and assessment center program has continued to grow over the past 13 years due in large measure to the 159 Credentialed Trainers that annually offer about 170 courses in the US and Canada. Thanks to the many employers, academic programs, clinical consortia, chapters and clinical instructors that have worked with APTA to ensure the success of this program -- not only through their active involvement but also by helping to cover the costs for clinical educators to participate.
What a great investment it is. In fact, recent research about the CIECP, published in The Journal of Physical Therapy Education, found that the program has had a positive effect on student performance outcomes.
To further help clinical instructors (CIs) offer the best outcomes in clinical teaching and clinical practice for their PT students, APTA launched the Advanced Clinical Instructor Education and Credentialing Program (Advanced CIECP) last year. The program is a blended learning course that addresses best clinical practice and best clinical teaching in providing high quality learning experiences to prepare the DPT graduate for entering practice. The Advanced program is open to CIs already credentialed under APTA’s CIECP who want to further their skills and knowledge, be recognized for advanced achievement, and earn continuing education credits. Currently there are 50 Advanced Credentialed Trainers teaching this program with more than 350 physical therapist clinical educators that are Advanced Credentialed CIs.
I invite you to learn more about these programs by visiting APTA’s Web site at www.apta.org/ciecp and www.apta.org/aciecp or by talking with your colleagues who have participated in the program.
For those who have participated, I encourage you to share comments about your experiences here. What have you used in your clinical teaching from these programs and where we might go from here?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Our facility sent myself a SLP and an OT last fall for the APTA credentialing course. We form a united front with consistent quality instruction that has inevitably left our students wanting more time for their affiliations. I am more confident and act as the PT Departments clinical coordinator for clinical instruction. Next month we are hosting an APTA trainer to credential the rest or our team which will make us 100% credentialed. The patients, staff and family members recognize our efforts. Physical Therapy has been very rewarding since we kicked it up a notch with this program.
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