PT & PTA Students

PT & PTA Students

At Urbana Physical Therapy we love to be involved in the clinical education of student PTs and student PTAs.  Our goals are simple: to reinforce what you have learned in your academic education and to expose you to some newer treatments that you may not have yet experienced.

We do not believe in the “sink-or-swim” method of teaching.  Some students have told us that, on their first day, they were given a chart and told to evaluate a patient.  We would never do that to a new student for three reasons:

1. We realize that you are with us for your education and not to help us just because we might be short staffed.
2. Because our primary commitment is to our patients, we want to ensure that each student is competent in a particular technique (including evaluations) before permitting the student to use it on our patient without supervision.
3. We realize that our students have different levels of experience and confidence. We promise to challenge you beyond your level of comfort but not overwhelm you by placing you in a situation beyond you abilities.