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News from the Foundation for Physical Therapy

	Application Deadlines

Applications for both scholarships and fellowships must be submitted online at www.FoundationforPhysicalTherapy.org. Eligibility guidelines, application instructions, and the online application can be accessed under the "Program Information" tab, at left. Select either "Scholarships, Promotion of Doctoral" or "Fellowships."

Two levels of scholarships are available to physical therapist and physical therapist assistants who are pursuing their doctorate in physical therapy research:

PODS I—Up to $7,500 a year for support of the coursework phase of postprofessional doctoral studies prior to candidacy.

PODS II—Up to $15,000 for support of the post-candidacy phase of postprofessional doctoral studies (as defined by the applicant's institution).

Recipients selected for the awards will be notified in June for the upcoming school year. Students may receive up to 3 PODS I and 2 PODS II awards, totaling $52,500. A new application is required each year.

NIFTI—This 2-year fellowship awards $35,000 the first year and $38,000 the second. The fellowship is designed to fund and promote physical therapists and physical therapist assistants as researchers and improve their competitiveness in securing external funding for their future research. The Foundation seeks to fund the most highly qualified physical therapists intent upon pursuing a career in research and to ensure that the physical therapy profession benefits from the commitment and scholarship of these individuals.

Candidates must have received the required postprofessional doctoral degree, or the professional education degree, in physical therapy. Candidates already holding a post-professional degree must have received the degree no earlier than 5 years prior to the year of application and no later than June 28 of the year of application.

Recipients will be notified of their selection in June. Funding will be sent directly to the institution at which the experience will take place. For further information, contact the Foundation at 800/875-1378, ext 8505.

	Two Courses at CSM

Top Application Deadlines Two Courses at CSM Foundation Receives Bequest Foundation Offers New Fellowship...

 
The Foundation for Physical Therapy encourages attendees at the Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas to attend 2 informative sessions. To learn about how to prepare a viable application for Foundation funding, plan to attend "Foundation Funding for Post-Professional Study." To hear about how to put the outcomes of the Clinical Research Network to work in a clinical practice, attend the "PTClinResNet" session.

Foundation Funding for Post-Professional Study: Options and Guidelines—Tuesday, February 10, 10:30 AM–12:15 PM, Coral C

This program will include 4 roundtable discussion groups, one for each Foundation funding program: Florence P Kendall Doctoral Scholarships, PODS I and II, NIFTI, and research grants. Each discussion group will be led by a member of the Scientific Review Committee (SRC), which selects the funded proposals. (.15 CEU)

PTClinResNet: Translating the Results of the Clinical Research Network Into Practice—Thursday, February 12, 1:00 PM–4:45 PM, South Pacific G & H

This course will describe the scientific and clinical evidence used for the development of complex intervention protocols tested in the Physical Therapy Clinical Research Network (PTClinResNet). The 4 randomized clinical trials (RCT) hosted by PTClinResNet evaluated physical therapy interventions that were based on resistance exercise and designed to enhance muscle performance and functional skills. Lead investigators for each RCT will describe the process of protocol development, standardized administration across sites, and application to clinical practice for the individual client. Individual patient/client cases will be described to illustrate key prognostic factors including severity, intervention duration, intensity, and progression for outcomes at each of the ICF levels of disablement (body tissue, person, and life role). The investigative team will conclude with a discussion of clinical–academic partnerships for the development of evidence-based practice in physical therapy. (.3 CEU)

	Foundation Receives Bequest

Top Application Deadlines Two Courses at CSM Foundation Receives Bequest Foundation Offers New Fellowship...

 
The Foundation for Physical Therapy has announced the generous bequest of $527,000 made by Laura K Smith, PT, PhD, FAPTA, of Sugar Land, Texas, who died in 2006.

Smith was a lifelong physical therapist and physical therapy educator in Texas. She was the creator and first director of the physical therapy clinical department of the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She also was the first director of the School of Physical Therapy at Texas Woman's University, where she taught full time from 1965 to 1980. She initiated the university's first entry-level master's program in 1972. From 1980 to her retirement in 1986, she taught in the physical therapy program at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Smith is credited with setting the standard of care for patients with poliomyelitis, whom she treated at the beginning of her career in the 1940s. Some 50 years later, in 1990, she was reported to be at the forefront in researching the underlying mechanism for the development of "post-polio syndrome," which included symptoms of weakness, fatigue, and pain in persons who had polio to 20 to 40 years earlier.

Smith received a BA in physical education from San Jose State University, a certificate in physical therapy from Stanford University, and a PhD in physiology from Baylor College of Medicine. She worked as a physical therapist at Rancho Los Amigos in California for several years and later moved to Warm Springs, Georgia, to work with patients with polio. She returned to California in 1949 as an instructor in physical therapy at Stanford University.

Her bequest to the Foundation will be used for scholarships to physical therapy students pursuing a career in physical therapy research. This is one of the largest bequests made to the Foundation since its founding in 1979. The Foundation awards an estimated $425,000 a year.

"We are so pleased that Laura Smith remembered the Foundation in her will. And we are honored to carry forward her profound commitment to the physical therapy profession through our scholarship programs," said Robert J Brennan, Foundation executive director. "We hope this very meaningful gift will inspire physical therapists, educators, and grateful patients to consider a bequest to the Foundation through their will, living trust, or a beneficiary designation."

	Foundation Offers New Fellowship in Health Services Research

Top Application Deadlines Two Courses at CSM Foundation Receives Bequest Foundation Offers New Fellowship...

 
The Foundation for Physical Therapy is now offering a fellowship in health services research. Applications are being accepted until January 27, 2009, for the new 2-year program.

The goal of the New Investigator Fellowship Training Initiative (NIFTI) in Health Services Research is for the investigator to develop the research skills necessary to conduct high-quality, independent research to advance his or her capacity to examine optimal health services delivery outcomes in physical therapy, including cost analysis of various rehabilitation interventions. The focus of the training will be on examining issues related to health care delivery, health services management, assessment of health care needs, evaluation of health markets and services, health economics, and the impact of health policies.

The applicant may develop an application in collaboration with any well-established health services research institution of his or her choice. Applicants can also contact the Foundation for suggestions of possible partnering institutions. The ideal program will offer each fellow:

• Intensive instruction in advanced research design and contemporary measurement methodology to carry out health services research with a focus on physical therapy interventions.
  
• Opportunities to build a collaborative relationship under the guidance of outstanding mentors and institutions that offer unique opportunities in health services research.
  
• Experience in writing independent research grants in health services research, with the goal of submitting and/or receiving federal support (R0-1).
  

The fellow will receive $70,000 in salary support the first year and $76,000 the second year, with half provided by the Foundation and half by the sponsoring institution. For guidelines and the online application, go to www.FoundationForPhysicalTherapy.com. Click on "Program Information" at left, then "Fellowships."

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