Teaching, Learning, Group Dynamics

Course Description

The course is designed to assist the student physical therapist in improving his/her clinical and behavioral teaching, learning, and group dynamics skill sets through activities, lectures, and group projects. The first part of the course provides instruction to the student about group dynamics. Therapists, regardless of employment location, must work in harmony with many disciplines to achieve patient goals. Teamwork and inter-professional communication are critical factors in accurate clinical decision making. Trust, leadership, dependency, group dynamic theory, and inclusion are explored in the first half of the course within the framework of the inter-professional team approach to the provision of health care. The second part of the course focuses on behaviors and teaching skills associated with the therapist-patient interaction. Students are also encouraged to reflect on their individual learning preferences and strategies for optimizing success in the classroom and clinical environments. Topics explored include the patient-therapist collaborative clinical decision model, patient education, the FOG index of teaching, verbal and written clinical teaching methodology, teaching pedagogy, distance medicine, interaction with patient families, long and short term goal setting, clinical objectives and clinical education.

Code

PHTH 8102

Credits

2

Subject

PHTH