PTA Mission & Goals
Physical Therapist Assistant Program Mission: The Physical Therapist Assistant program will provide students with a comprehensive education leading to an associate of applied science degree, including the training, knowledge, skills and professional attitudes necessary to prepare the students to be competent and integral members of a health-care delivery team.
Institutional and PTA Program Quality Standards and Goals
- Character: Students will demonstrate personal and social responsibility including setting reasonable and realistic personal and professional goals, time management skills, professionalism and community service.
Program Goals:- Provide a curriculum that emphasizes safe, legal and ethical practices.
- Encourage altruism, compassion, cultural competence and social responsibility by providing opportunities for student learning and growth in these areas.
- Emphasize the importance of ethical considerations in the practice of physical therapy and make the students cognizant of the value of professional organizations, as well as the need for continuing education.
- Interaction: Students will demonstrate clear and accurate communications skills including listening, speaking and writing.
Program Goals:- Provide a curriculum that promotes effective communication in all the roles of a physical therapist assistant including documentation and professional writing, interrelationship skills, verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Reputation/Competency: Students will demonstrate technical competence, learning to learn, information literacy, and problem solving/critical thinking.
Program Goals:- Provide a competency-based curriculum which will prepare students to perform the professional duties of a physical therapist assistant.
- Ensure that the students understand the role and scope of the physical therapist assistant within the physical therapy profession and the health-care delivery system.
