The current state of anatomy education in United States doctor of physical therapy programs-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The current state of anatomy education in United States doctor of physical therapy programs

Published:2023-11-10 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1935-9772
Container-title:Anatomical Sciences Education
language:en
Short-container-title:Anatomical Sciences Ed

Author:

Milian Eryn K.¹^ORCID,Smith Bryon A.¹^ORCID,Costas Alejandro¹,Wong Marlon L.¹^ORCID,Ravelo Daniel¹^ORCID,Hartley Gregory W.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physical Therapy University of Miami Coral Gables Florida USA

Abstract

AbstractPhysical therapy education has significantly evolved over the past few decades. While gross anatomy is integral to physical therapy education curricula, the current state of anatomy education within these programs is not well understood. The primary purpose of this report was to provide an update on the current state of anatomy education across United States (US) Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) programs. A survey was disseminated to all 261 accredited US physical therapy programs. The survey was deployed in November 2020 with a deadline to respond by January 15, 2021. The response rate was 32.6% (85/261). When teaching anatomy, 90.5% of the responding programs used dissection, 71.4% used didactic lectures, 60.7% used computer‐assisted technology, 58% used prosections, 23.8% used plastinated models, and 31% reported using other methods. DPT programs have experienced declines in PhD faculty (15.7%) and Master of Physical Therapy faculty (15.3%) and notable increases in DPT (16.5%) and physician faculty (8.2%) teaching anatomy within DPT programs. Despite greater use of computer‐assisted technologies, these technologies have not replaced donor‐based dissection in DPT programs.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Embryology,General Medicine,Histology,Anatomy

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