A comparative study on the course description of medical and surgical conditions subjects between De La Salle University-College of Physical Therapy and University of Santo Tomas-Institute of Physical Therapy

Date of Completion

1999

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Keywords

Curriculum, Physical Therapy

Abstract

An essential part of a school's curriculum is their course description. But the problem with today's local physical therapy schools, is that most of them are sacrificing the quality of a well rounded education for the sake of money from the vast quantity of paying students, oftentimes neglecting and giving minimal importance in the necessary and vital academic curriculum, which is needed to produce highly trained, skilled, dynamic and competent physical therapist. In order to attain this goal, the key lies therein in the physical therapy school's course description and method of teaching and training. It is said that a competent physical therapy curriculum should be dynamic, relevant, and responsive to the ever-changing needs of the physical therapy profession. Also it should provide its students with a solid foundation upon which their individual careers may grow. De La Salle University-College of Physical Therapy and University of Santo Tomas - Institute pf Physical Therapy both embraces these goals as part of their mission statements and as part of their well-balanced curriculum. With these in mind, we have chosen to do a comparison of the course description between these two distinguished schools with the end in the view of knowing the scope or contents, and similarities and differences of it. Out of the 27 subjects of UST-IPT and 25 subjects of DLSU-CPT, all taken up during the PT PROPER years the study was limited to only three subjects within the 4th year curriculum. The topics and number of units, both individual and total, were compared and points of emphasis noted. The limited data was outlined and presented in tables. These were analyzed with their corresponding similarities and differences specified. Results showed that both schools allotted a total of 13 units for Medical/Surgical Conditions 1, 2, and 3. Both emphasized on orthopedic conditions with UST also emphasizing on general medical conditions and DLSU onneurologic conditions. Their points of emphasis were based on their provided number of units per subject. UST had a wider scope of topics in MES 1 and 2 while DLSU in MES 3. Both schools had a general/less specific course description of MES 2. There was also noted overlapping of subjects and difference in topic distribution. The study has shown that while UST-IPT emphasizes on the general medical and orthopedic conditions and DLSU-CPT on neurologic and orthopedic conditions, both schools consider the medical/surgical condition subjects as an integral part of educating future physical therapist as noted in the equal allotment of total of units. The group highly recommend a review on the differences and similarities of the other subjects under the course description of DLSU-CPT and other schools to determine areas where alteration are needed to continually provide competent physical therapy graduates.

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