Top-of-Scope PT Practice Symposium Part 1

Description

Physical therapists are too often confined to the roles, settings, and mental models traditional practice was built around, leaving valuable expertise underused just when patients, communities, and health systems need it most. This symposium challenges that ceiling. Across four expert-led sessions, physical therapists will trace top-of-scope practice across the full continuum of care: reimagining PT's reach across society and nonclinical roles, embedding prevention and population health into primary practice, using point-of-care ultrasound to become an active contributor to ICU medical management, and applying public health data to strengthen clinical reasoning in oncology survivorship. Each 60-minute presentation is followed by 30 minutes of live Q&A with the presenting expert. Designed primarily for physical therapists working across acute care, outpatient, community, and specialty settings, with content also relevant to other rehabilitation professionals, this symposium equips clinicians with concrete frameworks to expand their scope of impact, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, and practice at the top of their scope.

Sessions:

Session 1: Going to Society: PT Expertise Across the Human Experience

Session 2: Top-of-Scope PT: Embedded Prevention and Primary PT

Register for Part 2 here.

Instructors

Learning Objectives

• Analyze opportunities to integrate physical therapy expertise across prevention, healthcare delivery, nonclinical societal, and system level roles
• Categorize emerging models of physical therapist practice based on their potential to keep people well, improve access to care, change care trajectories, or influence healthcare systems
• Distinguish top-of-scope practice from traditional setting or treatment based definitions of physical therapist practice
• Examine how multidisciplinary collaboration can extend the reach and impact of professional expertise across communities and healthcare systems
• Apply the Going to Society framework to identify opportunities within their own discipline to expand where and how their expertise serves society
• Analyze industry drivers and clinical evidence supporting primary physical therapy and upstream prevention approaches in modern practice
• Examine the relationship between patient health behaviors, primary physical therapy diagnoses, and functional outcomes
• Analyze the efficacy and structure of embedded, population health focused PT models (such as direct to employer paradigms) through case studies
• Prepare actionable strategies to apply prevention and primary PT principles within a variety of practice settings

Agenda

All times in Eastern Time.

11:00am–12:05pm

Going to Society: PT Expertise Across the Human Experience

12:05pm–12:35pm

Q&A Session

12:35pm–12:40pm

Break

12:40pm–1:40pm

Top-of-Scope PT: Embedded Prevention and Primary PT

1:40pm–2:10pm

Q&A Session

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