Prepare for and complete an oral presentation of your findings to an audience of faculty and students. This should last between 15 and 30 minutes. It should be formatted as an explanation of each of the subspecialties and then using some of the research articles you used in your papers to provide detailed examples of treatment interventions investigated and their outcomes. Inclusion of information from the interviews may also be used. This will need to be scheduled in the second half of April.
The idea is to provide an explanation of the role of the PT in each of the 5 different subdisciplines. Key information would be a problem each type of patient has, what the therapeutic activity is, how the PT accomplishes that, and how effective it is based on the results of a study on that treatment. In other words, the therapeutic activity would be reinforced by a research article you used. You don’t need all 5 articles from each topic. Just choose one (two at most) that helps you make your point. A little explanation of the methods of the study will also help provide context to the results. Lastly, a little about what the subject of your interview says about research from a student’s perspective will help round out the presentation.
the 5 subdisciplines are ( Neurological Rehabilitation, Acute Care Inpatient Hospital Rehabilitation, Burn and Woundcare Rehabilitation, Pediatrics Rehabilitation, Homecare Rehabilitation)
