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Clinical Experience and Cognition of a Physical Therapy Procedure

Ms. Marcoux is Lecturer, Program in Physical Therapy, University of Michigan, 1108 Lapeer Rd, Flint, ML 48503 (USA). This article was adapted from a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for Master of Science in Physical Therapy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 1979.
Dr. Pinkston is Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, School of Community and Allied Health, University of Alabama, University Station, Birmingham, AL 35294.

This investigation was designed to determine if clinical experience influences cognition of a physical therapy procedure. We hypothesized that experience in the application of a physical therapy procedure on patients would increase the student's cognition of that procedure. Twenty-two junior students in a physical therapy baccalaureate program were study subjects. A multiple-choice test pertaining to gait training was administered to all subjects as a pretest and posttest. The pretest was given after classroom instruction and laboratory practice in gait training; posttest was administered eight weeks later. During the interim eight weeks, 11 subjects completed 32 hours of clinical experience and 11 subjects had no clinical experience. Analysis of the results of posttest compared with pretest indicated that for these subjects, clinical experience did not increase cognition of gait training.

Key Words: Cognition • Education, medical, undergraduate • Physical therapy

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