Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.)

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[White Background; Black Logo with Maroon Seal, “New York Medical College, A Member of the Touro College and University System”; Maroon Logo, “School of Health Sciences and Practice, and Institute of Public Health”;
Black Lettering, “Department of Physical Therapy”]

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[Image: Sunshine Cottage, New York Medical College campus, Valhalla New York]

[Image: left, lamppost banner for New York Medical College; centered, a concrete architrave with an image of an owl surrounded by eight stars; and right, a white column with Fluting and Fillets]

NARRATOR: Here at New York Medical College

[Image: auditorium with students listening to a lecture, while viewing a projected image of an ivory bas-relief with the caption “Vanitas skeleton tomb scene”]

NARRATOR: we have a three-year Doctor of Physical Therapy Program.

[Image: three Physical Therapy students practicing on volunteers, lying down on tables, showing them how to stretch the back muscles of the leg, with green stretching straps]

 

[speaking: Jerret, School of Health Sciences and Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2020]

JERRET: I really love the small class size here at New York Medical College.

[Video: of a physical therapy student, sitting on a red floor mat with a volunteer patient, holding a doll]

JERRET: We not only get to learn from the physical therapy faculty, we also get to learn from the doctors and professors from the other programs here at New York Medical College.

[Video: professor from the School of Medicine, lecturing]

[Video: physical therapy student practicing forward range of motion on the leg of a volunteer patient]

 

[speaking: Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., Dean, School of Health Sciences and Practice; and Vice President for Government Affairs]

AMLER: The physical therapy curriculum trains them not just in muscles and bones, but also trains in

[Image: group of students sitting around a physical therapy lab classroom, some seated on green tables, some on a red floor mat, and some standing; while an instructor in a blue shirt and khaki pants talks while gesturing with his hands]

AMLER: neuroscience, in respiratory physiology, in cardiac rehabilitation. 

 

[Image: stock photo of a female physician in a white coat, wearing eyeglasses, looking over a document held by another woman wearing blue scrubs]

NARRATOR: Faculty come from the School of Medicine,

[Image: one female and one male laboratory technician, wearing white coats and blue gloves, moving clear samples into a blue plastic test tube rack]

NARRATOR: Basic Medical Sciences.

[Video: Professor, standing in class, taking the hand of a student, and pointing to the anatomy of the hand and wrist while speaking inaudibly]

NARRATOR: We have over 26/27 part-time clinical faculty bringing their clinical expertise to the program.

 

[speaking: Jerret, School of Health Sciences and Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2020]

JERRET: We're given 24-hour access to the anatomy lab,

[Image: female student with dark hair wearing blue scrubs, looking at a spine model]

JERRET: where we have our own cadavers that we dissect throughout the course.

[Image: group of four students in blue scrubs wearing exam gloves, standing around a dissection, with an instructor in a white coat and eye-glasses present]

JERRET: Not a lot of other physical therapy programs have this, so it was a huge draw for me.

[Image: of two male students in blue scrubs with eyeglasses, looking over a book titled “Color Atlas of Anatomy”]

 

NARRATOR: We have a problem-based learning model,

[Image: Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy, stands in front of a smartboard, lecturing; gesturing, with arms at a ninety degree angle and palms facing each other]

NARRATOR: where students are learning to apply information in a mock clinical scenario.

[Video: group of students standing in a classroom, gathered around a female student in a white tee-shirt talking inaudibly while gesturing with her hand; pointing up, palm up]

 

[speaking: Jerret, Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2020]

JERRET: We're presented with cases, and provide interventions and examination strategies.
 
[Video: physical therapy student practicing range of motion on the right shoulder of a volunteer patient]

JERRET: I can't imagine another way to learn how to do physical therapy.

 

[Image: woman smiling, wearing a grey shift dress with a blue stethoscope around her neck]

NARRATOR: We have a strong emphasis on interprofessional education,

[Image: a young girl with her hair in a ponytail, holding a mirror, while pointing to her two front teeth]

NARRATOR:  but we have speech pathologists

[Image: of a young female student in a blue and white striped shirt, holding a round blue Classic Farmer Says See 'n Say toy]

NARRATOR: and physical therapists

 

[Image: group of male and female students sitting on a red floor mat around a baby doll, practicing turning the doll’s head]

NARRATOR:  and physicians and scientists learning together.

[Image: three lab techs in white coats, performing various experiments]

NARRATOR:  It's about giving you an environment

[Image: of wheelchair racers, and guides, most wearing neon yellow, smiling, high fiving, and thumbs up]

NARRATOR: where you cannot help but to learn.

[Image: woman with short blonde hair, wearing a blue tee-shirt, holds her arms out in front of her gripping a red therapy band, while assisted by a physical therapy student in a red sweatshirt, which says “New York Medical College”]

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