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Journey of a DPT Student

Mod-Max Assist Gait Training
by Lauren Rosso
As I'm settling more and more into my current clinical rotation on a traumatic brain injury inpatient rehab unit, opportunities are more frequently coming around to develop hands-on clinical skills. Obviously, a lot of what we do revolves around functional Read More...
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A DPT Student with Patients
by Lauren Rosso
I completed the first full week of my six-month clinical affiliation, and things are off to a tremendous start. This past week, I was assigned two patients of my very own who I'll likely see throughout their course of care on the inpatient rehab unit. Read More...
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How to Get Your Clinical Instructor to Trust You
by Lauren Rosso
Please don't be fooled by the title of this post. I don't have a good method by which to accomplish this. However after starting my fifth clinical last Wednesday, I've realized that earning the trust of a clinical instructor is a very tricky game requiring Read More...
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When Life Happens During PT School
by Lauren Rosso
I've been fortunate over the past two years to have very few life-related interruptions in my attempts to excel at this whole "PT" thing. However last weekend, right before the start of finals week, I received news that my grandfather passed away. The Read More...
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PT Night: Our Successful Goodbye
by Lauren Rosso
I posted last month about PT Night , the tradition in my program where at the end of our second year, students put together a sort of "roast" of the faculty and poke fun at our most memorable moments in the program. Leading up to Friday night, I was unbelievably Read More...
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Should PT Students 'Prepare' for their Clinical Instructors?
by Lauren Rosso
This afternoon at a department-wide scholarship reception, I ran into a student who is a year ahead of me in the program and happens to have a similar clinical rotation as I will have in the coming year. I was picking her brain regarding the hospital, Read More...
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Senioritis -- Acceptable in a Clinical Doctorate Program?
by Lauren Rosso
With four short weeks remaining in the didactic portion of our education, the inevitable is happening -- the general attitude of my ever-engaged class is turning down a road toward apathy. I've been here before. At the end of college, my friends and I Read More...
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Asking for PTO as a Student
by Lauren Rosso
With the start of our yearlong clinical only one month away, the logistics of having a full-time "job" are becoming a reality. We recently met with the clinical education instructors in our department to cover the do's and don'ts regarding PTO, stipends Read More...
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PT School -- Everyone Will Get Married
by Lauren Rosso
In case you're wondering what your years in PT school will bring, here's what you can expect -- everyone will get engaged or married. Exaggeration? Barely. Of my 52 classmates, seven are now engaged, three are married and two have had babies. All of this Read More...
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PT Night: Our ‘Goodbye' Celebration
by Lauren Rosso
There's a tradition in my program -- at the end of the second year prior to departing for our yearlong clinical affiliations, the students get together with the faculty for a night of celebration that mostly revolves around the students making fun of Read More...
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Teaching is the Best Way to Learn
by Lauren Rosso
Throughout the course of this semester, I've been a teaching assistant in the neuroanatomy course required for the first-year students in the program. I was very hesitant at the start to take this on, but I've been happy to see how quickly a lot of the Read More...
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Owning a Theoretical PT Practice
by Lauren Rosso
As part of a very in-depth project for our "Leadership and Professional Development" course, I'm in charge of justifying the purchase of an electronic health record (EHR) for our theoretical outpatient private practice. I've been spending a lot of time Read More...
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Capstone Projects
by Lauren Rosso
Now that we've finally learned our placements for our yearlong clinical rotations, we can start the planning process for our capstone projects. The project assigns groups to a specific patient population based on the practice setting where we're working, Read More...
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Yearlong Placements at Last
by Lauren Rosso
Four months of waiting are finally over -- I finally received word about where I'll be for my yearlong clinical. It took every ounce of maturity and focus not to have a breakdown while I was waiting, but I'm happy that I kept myself together because I Read More...
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The Skype Diagnosis
by Lauren Rosso
This weekend I had to stretch my already-struggling assessment skills to the virtual world during a Skype session with my uncle. He's been having shoulder pain for the past few weeks and sought out my opinion via e-mail. We chatted back and forth about Read More...
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