life in physical therapy school so far

I had originally intended this blog to document my life in a new city and also about life of a physical therapy student, but so far it has just been about my days and not too much about school itself. I need a break from studying tonight, I am the point where I am messing up things I know I know. Time to stop!

I remember when I first started looking around the internet for information about school and what to expect, I couldn’t find anything really relevant to being in PT school today. Now you get your DPT, Doctorate of Physical Therapy. What does that mean? Well its a complicated question with an even more complicated answer. For now the very simplified answer is it allows you Direct Access.

Ok, enough of that some of the good stuff. I have been in school for over a month, almost 2 now. My school Tennessee State University starts in the summer. I only know of at least one other school starting in the summer. So my experience will be different than most in regards to class structure. Anyway’s, I have 3 classes in the summer. Gross Anatomy (6 credits), Intro to PT (2 credits), and Psychosocial Aspects of Physical Therapy (1 credit). Now 9 credits might not seem like a lot, and well true it isn’t, but anatomy is a real bitch. Especially if you were like me who kited by undergrad and just wanted to get done and never really took the time to fully learn it and understand it all.

I don’t know how most school are, but here an A is 100 – 93, B 92 – 84, C 83 – 75. Anything lower than a 75 and you fail. Anatomy being a 6 credit class, just pray you don’t make a C.

For the summer my schedule is like this; Mon – Thurs. for 8 weeks its Anatomy from 9 am to 11:30 and then from 12:30 – whenever, usually 4pm we are in the cadaver lab dissecting our cadaver. Then on Fridays we have Psychosocial. The last week of the summer we have Intro to PT and that’s our summer.

This is just a brief intro and overview of what I have experienced so far. There is plenty more so don’t worry. I am just ready for bed. I will write more about anatomy and some tips I wish I knew before hand.