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Academics and Clinical Research

To the Editor:

I would like to respond to your Editor's Note "Physical Therapy Research: Academic Inadequacies" (Phys Ther. 1992;72:92–94). At the outset, I must admit that as an academic administrator, I found myself immediately rising to the bait as I read the title of your editor's note. By the time I had moved to the second page, I was already mentally preparing my offensive and defensive strategies to be used in my letter to you. But alas, there is truth in your smoking gun. Our doctorates should be in the areas of our teaching and clinical interests, we should be making a significant contribution to the body of knowledge in our field, and our academic departments should be contiguous with clinical departments in order to support faculty practice. There are obviously a number of reasons why this is not the case in many institutions....

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Physical Therapy Research: Academic Inadequacies

Jules M Rothstein
Physical Therapy 1992 72: 92-94. [Abstract] [PDF]