Predoctoral Training in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Research

项目总结/摘要 临床康复科学家与正规的研究培训，使多学科的研究 回答与康复有关的重要问题的方法很少。这个博士预科的目标是 培训计划是继续提高质量和数量的个人谁将有助于 推动身体康复最佳实践的知识和证据。这一成功和创新的 培训计划，通过物理治疗部协调，已经有20年的历史， 经费所有完成DPT部分课程的学员都成功通过了 国家执照考试在物理治疗的第一次尝试，并已成为执业许可证 物理治疗所有过去的学员都成为博士后研究员或进入教师或研究- 密集的位置。那些在教师职位是在一些最优秀的物理治疗方案 在美国.他们的工作获得了奖项，发表在高质量的期刊上（最高影响力的期刊） 在康复中），并经常被引用。此外，6/11我们的学员谁是在教师职位有 在NIH基金中担任PI或Co-I，其中4人在R 01赠款中担任PI。此外，我们最新的T32骨干 计划毕业生有来自私人基金会的资金（例如，美国心脏协会），PCRI，和一个 是富布赖特学者这些数据代表了我们以前的杰出科学影响。 实习生同样值得注意的是，所有目前的学员或那些谁是在博士后职位， 获得奖学金和/或外部资金，再次证明了杰出的生产力和质量， 我们的实习生的工作该计划融合了两个独立的培训计划：一个优秀的入门级 物理治疗博士学位（DPT）和生物力学和生物力学领域非常成功的跨学科博士课程， 运动科学该计划类似于培养医学科学家的MD/PhD计划。通过 帮助减少DPT培训计划期间产生的经常是相当大的债务，学员能够推迟 有机会赚取临床医生享受的薪水，并直接进入博士课程。学生 该计划成为物理治疗师和康复研究科学家。受训人员从下列人员中选出： 一批具有不同本科背景的优秀学生进入DPT课程。许多 这些学生在入学前就表示对研究感兴趣。该培训项目吸引了 最好的和最聪明的个人与物理康复研究的真诚兴趣，并跟踪他们 在他们接受研究训练的早期。需求是巨大的。新的和建立的学术 物理治疗项目需要经过博士培训的个人担任教学和研究职位。毕业生 本培训计划的理想教员谁培养卓越的康复研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Clinical rehabilitations scientists with the formal research training to bring multidisciplinary research approaches to answer important questions related to rehabilitation are scarce. The goal of this pre-doctoral training program is to continue to improve the quality and quantity of individuals who will contribute to the knowledge and evidence that drives best practice in physical rehabilitation. This successful and innovative training program, coordinated through the Department of Physical Therapy, has had 20 years of previous funding. All trainees who have completed the DPT portion of the program have successfully passed the national licensure examination in Physical Therapy on their first attempt and have become licensed to practice physical therapy. All past trainees have become postdoctoral fellows or entered into faculty or research- intensive positions. Those in faculty positions are in some of the most outstanding Physical Therapy programs in the US. Their work has received awards, been published in journals of high quality (highest impact journals in rehabilitation), and been frequently cited. In addition, 6/11 of our trainees who are in faculty positions have been PI or Co-I on NIH funding, with 4 as PIs on active R01 grants. Additionally, our most recent cadre of T32 program graduates have funding from private foundations (e.g., American Heart Association), PCORI, and one is a Fulbright Scholar. These data are a representation of the outstanding scientific impact of our previous trainees. It is also notable that all of the current trainees or those who are in post-doctoral positions have received scholarships and/or external funding, again a testament to the outstanding productivity and quality of work of our trainees. The program fuses two independent training programs: an outstanding entry level Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) and a very successful interdisciplinary PhD program in Biomechanics and Movement Science. The program is analogous to the MD/PhD programs that train medical scientists. By helping to reduce the often sizable debt incurred during the DPT training program, trainees are able to delay the opportunity to earn the salaries that clinicians enjoy and move directly into the PhD program. Students in the program become both physical therapists and rehabilitation research scientists. Trainees are selected from a pool of outstanding students with diverse undergraduate backgrounds who enter the DPT program. Many of these students express an interest in research before admission to the program. This training program attracts the best and brightest individuals with a sincere interest in physical rehabilitation research and tracks them early in their training into research careers. The need is enormous. Both new and established academic physical therapy programs need doctorally trained individuals for teaching and research positions. Graduates of this training program are ideal faculty members who foster excellence in rehabilitation research.