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VM Nieland, PT, is Director, Department of Accreditation, Research and Education Division, American Physical Therapy Asociation, 1111 N Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA 22314-1488

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The authors have described a creative way to elaborate several concerns related to student preparation for practice, attitudes toward a specific patient population, limited or ill-timed course work, and inadequate number of clinical education sites.

Although the results of the study indicate that students' attitudes toward the elderly can be improved, one needs to consider why any faculty member would try to improve students' attitudes toward a particular patient population. Most faculty would probably argue that improved attitudes would lead to eventual improvement in delivery of care to that population or that the patient-therapist interaction would be enhanced to have a positive impact on treatment outcome. Some faculty may be motivated to increase the number of physical therapy practitioners who provide services to that population. Some may wish to change the expectations of the student—the future practitioner—related to patient outcome....

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