What’s it like to teach clinical skills online? While some instructors are doing it for the first time amid social distancing guidelines, one school has a track record in equipping its students with clinical skills thanks to its thoughtfully-designed hybrid program.
USC Doctor of Physical Therapy Blog
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The USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy’s DPT program prepares students to become leaders in physical therapy, shaping the future of health care. Kara Kessans ’06 is an alumna who illustrates this type of leadership working with elite volleyball players on the U.S. Women's National Indoor Team.
For more than 60 years, USC’s Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy has been leading innovation in the physical therapy profession through excellence in education, research, and practice. In anticipation of the hybrid DPT program launch, we sat down with Dr. James Gordon to learn about his observations of how physical therapy has responded to the needs of society over time, and USC’s unique contributions to the discipline as it approached its 100th anniversary.