Occupational therapy question?

Question about physical therapy graduate school?

• I'm an undergraduate majoring in Health Sciences. I am hoping to go to graduate school for physical therapy. I was wondering if someone could help me. I am a little confused as to what I need to do next. could someone help me find schools around the dayton, ohio area for physical therapy. Thank you sooo much!

• Answer:

  I can help you. I am an undergraduate major majoring in Exercise Science. I too plan to apply to Physical Therapy School after I graduate. As for what you need to do next, you might want to make sure you have the following: All the required prerequisite courses required by the PT school - Most schools require 1 year of anatomy and physiology 1 year of general chemistry with labs 1 year of general physics with labs 1 semester of statistics 1 semester of general biology 2 social science courses (1 psychology and 1 sociology) This could be different depending on what school you plan on applying to. You also need to make sure you have taken the GRE (Graduate Record Examination). You also need to make sure you have volunteer hours (I recommend spreading out your hours at various PT clinics such as geriatrics, orthopedic, pediatrics, cardiac etc.) I recommend you check out these 2 websites. www.apta.org (This will help you find a school in the dayton area) www.studentdoctornetwork.net (This is a blog website. Click on Rehab Sciences and click on Physical Therapy. You can ask any question related to physical therapy. The people that have joined this blog are ether in PT school, already a PT, or are undergraduates looking forward to applying to PT school. I use this website all the time to ask my questions related to Physical Therapy) It is free to make an account, but you do not have to if you want to just browse the fourm, I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your undergraduate years and future in PT school!