A Day in the Life of a PT Student

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A Day in the Life of a PT Student

Career Fair by Veronica Haywood: Our career fair is coming up tomorrow and I cannot wait. The day is sure to be a very exciting and stressful one. So far I have completed my resume and had professors as well as the career services center at Marquette look over it. Well that was the first Read More...
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Laugh, Play, Smile by Veronica Haywood: Senior Farewell and Massage-A-Thon are well on their way, and I can't wait! I am especially excited for Senior Farewell. It is the one opportunity that we get to make fun of all of our previous professors. This year however, our professors are apparently Read More...
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Work, Work, Work! by Veronica Haywood: This semester is becoming jam packed with A LOT of work. I don't think that I have had this many projects and papers due since taking English, History, Philosophy, and Theology all in the same semester. It's almost overwhelming at times. Nonetheless, Read More...
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The Resume by Veronica Haywood: Now comes the time again where there is just A LOT going on. Besides the loads of projects, papers and tests, we have a lot of events coming up. We have Massage-A-Thon coming around the corner, which was extremely successful last semester. Then we have Read More...
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Interacting with PTAs by Veronica Haywood: This week I was discussing the roles between PT's, PT students, and PTA's with my professor. I mentioned that, though I have had interactions with PTA's during my last two clinicals, it has been relatively limited in me directly supervising them. While Read More...
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Outpatient Physical Therapy and Psychiatric Help by Veronica Haywood: OK, so I just want to start by saying I LOVE MARQUETTE PT AND ALL MY TEACHERS. Just as a clarification. While I was working in an outpatient practice I realized that it was not easy to handle situations where patients needed possible psychology/psychiatric Read More...
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Back To School by Veronica Haywood: Wow--school has started this week! Someone in my class summed up the first few days excellently in her Facebook status: It's only been a few days, but it feels like half a semester. (Sorry if I butchered it!) I am convinced that our classes are even longer Read More...
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PT vs. ATC. Is There a Difference? by Veronica Haywood: OK, so today I have a question sparked by a discussion that my roommate, who is currently a third year athletic training student, and I had the other night. Basically, she is battling over whether she wants to go to graduate school (DPT, masters in AT, Read More...
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Saying Goodbye by Veronica Haywood: As the start of the school year approaches, I have become more excited and worried all at once. This will be my last semester of classes and while part of me is excited, a large part of me will miss being at Marquette. My mom thought it was actually quite Read More...
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The Pressures of Graduating by Veronica Haywood: For some reason, I am having the hardest time choosing my last two clinicals. I know that one has to be an acute care rotation, and at some point one must focus on wound care, but if I choose my wound care and acute care rotation as the same clinical Read More...
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On My Own by Veronica Haywood: As the summer rolls toward its ending, I realized that I only have a few more weeks left before school starts. Then I realized something even more startling when my mom told me that I needed to start planning my graduation party...I will be graduating Read More...
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Constructive CIs by Veronica Haywood: I have been extremely fortunate to have two great CIs thus far. Though very different in their approaches, they have both contributed greatly to my nurturing development. I would just like to take the time out to thank the both of them... Diana Correa Read More...
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Wrapping Up My Internship by Veronica Haywood: My internship is coming to an end and I am really going to miss it. I am finding it harder and harder to have to tell my patients that I will not be seeing anymore. Some of my patients I have seen since the very first week of my clinical! As with all Read More...
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Treating Complex Patients by Veronica Haywood: The past week has been quite exciting. I now have patients with polymyositis, post reactive streptococcal arthritis that lead to a total shoulder arthroplasty, MS status post ORIF, and a post polio syndrome/post cervical fusion patient who is now fused Read More...
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Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork! by Veronica Haywood: My caseload is rapidly increasing and I love it! Well, most of it. For some reason I don't think I realized just how much paperwork is involved. There's evaluations, daily notes, progress notes, discharge summaries, billing. I'm officially convinced that Read More...
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