USF/UWF DPT Partnership Extends Educational Opportunities for Local Clinicians

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The USF/UWF DPT Educational Partnership recently began broadcasting the Andrews Institute Sports Medicine Fellows Conferences (SMFC) from their virtual classroom on the UWF campus. Providing such a service enables local physical therapy clinicians who are unable to join the live session in the Gulf Breeze location, to attend and participate virtually. The classroom provides access to the excellent educational series and the networking availability for clinicians and students in the DPT educational partnership. In attendance this week were clinicians from various clinics, DPT students, and UWF undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in Physical Therapy. According to Dr. Steven Ambler, Associate Professor at the USF Health School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, “This is the point of the partnership, to extend and grow our PT community so that we can serve the public in Pensacola and the Panhandle.” In 2012, the Florida State Legislature provided $1M in new funding to UWF to establish the educational partnership program with USF, in response to data indicating the Pensacola area was a remote pocket of high demand for Physical Therapists. The Partnership recently welcomed its third cohort, as the first cohort completed one clinical rotation in the community and is scheduled to graduate in August of 2017.