Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences 2020 Graduates: Physical Therapy — Arizona

Program update

Curriculum changes were implemented to ensure continued learning despite the pandemic, using blended learning approaches for didactics and mentoring. Additional faculty training was created to align objectives with content and more application for test questions. The mentor session procedure was streamlined and standardized to improve outcomes.

With distinction, students

• Hannah Acton, PT, DPT, published “A Tale of Two Women: Geriatric Syndromes, Frailty, PDPM” in American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) GeriNotes

With distinction, faculty & staff

• Instructors in physical therapy Selen Courtney, PT, DPT, OCS, Sarah Goetzinger, PT, DPT, and Kathy Yee, PT, DPT, OCS, presented at ATPA Combined Sections Meeting on “Young Athletes Diagnosed with Spondylolysis: Return to Sport and Infrastructure to Support Mobility with Stability”
• Instructors in physical therapy Erin Van Buren, PT, DPT, GCS (PT ’15), residency program director; and Zackary Kleven, PT, DPT, GCS, were accepted for a poster presentation, “Enhancing Faculty Engagement During Bedside Training to Create Optimal Resident Outcomes” at the Mayo Clinic/Karolinska Institutet Research Meeting
• Zackary Kleven, PT, DPT, GCS, instructor in physical therapy, passed Geriatric Specialty Examination