Date of Completion

5-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Keywords

internship

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic is one of the few Philippine phenomena that affected the country’s systematic way of handling different circumstances, including internships and medical consultation in the different health allied courses. It opened challenges and difficulties that affected different medical services, medical education and training, and its corresponding clinical settings, including the interns. The study’s main objective is to determine the perceived readiness of the BSPT Student Interns as to their Clinical Internship during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The researchers utilized a descriptive quantitative research design for this study. Through the use of the Likert Scale administered in Google Forms, the researchers were able to gather data from 52% of their target respondents, amounting to 56 out of 118. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data using the mean and standard deviation. The study obtained the demographic data of their respondents corresponding to age, gender, and section. The respondents of the study included student interns who underwent Home-Based Alternative Learning Modalities (HBALMS) and are expected to meet the course outcomes, specifically Lasallian Exemplar, Research, EBP and Lifelong Learning, Technological Innovation, Health Promotion and Professional Leadership, Ethical/Professional Competent Collaborative Patient/Client Management and Communication Skills and Metacognitive Thinking. Based on the results, the interns perceived themselves as ready to a very great extent across the different domains with Research, EBP and Lifelong Learning garnering the least result and Ethical/Professional and Competent Collaborative Patient/Client Management with the highest result of perceived readiness. To ensure credibility, it is highly recommended that an early implementation, adjustment of sample size and the sending of personal messages to the respondents should be utilized to maximize the number of possible respondents to participate in this study and result in the reduction of margin of error. In the future, the results of the study can be a basis for analyzing areas needed to be improved by interns, developing strategies to enhance their readiness, and applying these changes to achieve a better preparation for internship.

First Advisor

Joana Marie A. Salinas

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