Key Success Factors of Physical Therapy
Jerry Dilla Estrellado Jr.
Lab Section 1B
Key Success Factors of Physical Therapy
June 4, 2014
ESTRELLADO !2 of 8!
INTRODUCTION
This paper explores the different factors college students consider to have a successful physical therapy career. These factors are necessary for pre-physical therapy college students to prepare for a competitive growing market. In 2011, the American Physical Therapy Association’s
(APTA) executive committee appointed a task force to focus on developing a model to forecast the supply and demand of physical therapists through 2020. The APTA model supports the projection that there’s a possibility that the need of physical therapists will increase until the year
2020. (APTA Projects Future Supply and Demand of Physical Therapists, 2013) The scope of this paper is to provide insight on a few factors and expectations that college students should already be aware of, or should consider in order to become successful, and fulfill the demand in physical therapy. There is much quantitative studies that go over different deciding factors students consider to pursue a career in physical therapy, but there isn’t much qualitative research available on students pursuing physical therapy. Therefore, we will review three pieces of quantitative literature and analyze the gaps of having a successful physical therapy career relative to graduate program selection, career expectations, and success factors. Then, we will conclude with a discussion the literature review and then tie in a semi-structured interview and interpretive phenomenological analysis by filling the gaps to understand one aspect as to how and why students develop these success factors.
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Factors Influencing Professional Master of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Physical
Therapy Students’ Program Selection.
Johanson (2004) conducted a quantitative research, via survey by means of electronic mail, telephone, and post-mail to 34 program directors to find the factors students consider when
Lab Section 1B
Key Success Factors of Physical Therapy
June 4, 2014
ESTRELLADO !2 of 8!
INTRODUCTION
This paper explores the different factors college students consider to have a successful physical therapy career. These factors are necessary for pre-physical therapy college students to prepare for a competitive growing market. In 2011, the American Physical Therapy Association’s
(APTA) executive committee appointed a task force to focus on developing a model to forecast the supply and demand of physical therapists through 2020. The APTA model supports the projection that there’s a possibility that the need of physical therapists will increase until the year
2020. (APTA Projects Future Supply and Demand of Physical Therapists, 2013) The scope of this paper is to provide insight on a few factors and expectations that college students should already be aware of, or should consider in order to become successful, and fulfill the demand in physical therapy. There is much quantitative studies that go over different deciding factors students consider to pursue a career in physical therapy, but there isn’t much qualitative research available on students pursuing physical therapy. Therefore, we will review three pieces of quantitative literature and analyze the gaps of having a successful physical therapy career relative to graduate program selection, career expectations, and success factors. Then, we will conclude with a discussion the literature review and then tie in a semi-structured interview and interpretive phenomenological analysis by filling the gaps to understand one aspect as to how and why students develop these success factors.
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Factors Influencing Professional Master of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Physical
Therapy Students’ Program Selection.
Johanson (2004) conducted a quantitative research, via survey by means of electronic mail, telephone, and post-mail to 34 program directors to find the factors students consider when
References: Johanson, M. A. (2007). Sex Differences in Career Expectations of Physical Therapist Students. Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association and Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy, 78, 1199-1211. Rozier, C. K., Raymond, M. J., Goldstein, M. S., & Hamilton, B. L. (1998). Gender and Physical Therapy Career Success Factors