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A Future With Increased Rather Than Diminished Research Capabilities

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Listening to Dr Becky Craik's inspirational McMillan Lecture at PT2005 in Boston,¹ I was struck by her reflections on how much physical therapist professional education has changed over the past 30 years.

As a graduate of a physical therapy program in the 1970s, I was shocked when she informed us that there were only 81 physical therapist education programs in the United States in the 1970s, compared with 210 today! Even more shocking to me, however, were the statistics she provided on the number of US education institutions that have converted to the professional doctoral degree in physical therapy. Who could have predicted that in 2005, less than 10 years since Creighton University graduated the nation's first doctors of physical therapy, 133 programs in the United States would be offering the DPT? Craik went on to challenge all of us in the profession not to "rest on our laurels" but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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