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| The Clinical Education SIG shall serve as a resource and forum for individuals who have professional concerns for the coordination, implementation, and evaluation of clinical education for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
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Leadership :
- CCCE Co-Chair
Misti Timpson, PT, MSPT, NCS
- ACCE Co-Chair
Alecia Thiele, PT, DPT MSEd, ATC/L, ACCE
- Membership Secretary
Lisa Kenyon, PT, PCS
- Recording Secretary
Stephanie Kelly, PT, PhD
- SIG Nominating Committee
April D. Newton, PT, MA, DCE
- SIG Nominating Committee
Alice Salzman, PT, EdD
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Educational Leadership Conference Handouts
The objectives of the CLINICAL EDUCATION SIG shall be to:
- To provide a vehicle for increasing and improving communication among clinical educators.
- To increase the participation of clinical educators in the Education Section.
- To provide continuing education in areas pertinent to clinical evaluation and teaching.
- To foster problem solving in clinical education using the scientific method.
- To Promote cooperative efforts among educational programs and clinical sites in scheduling, evaluation, and continuing education.
- To develop guidelines for the continuing development and evaluation of academic and clinical faculty involved in clinical education.
- To serve as a resource body involved in acquiring, cataloguing, and disseminating information relating to clinical education in physical therapy.
Voluntary Uniform Mailing Date:
The Clinical Education Special Interest Group (CESIG) of the Education Section of the APTA serves the interests of individuals from academic programs and clinical facilities. The CESIG conducts meetings at the APTA national conferences in February and June.
Background
At the February 1998 CESIG meeting, both the Department of Education and the CESIG presented data from surveys of ACCEs and CCCEs. There was a discussion regarding the condition of clinical education and ways of easing the load for the CCCE. A motion was made to consider the concept of a voluntary uniform mailing date for requesting clinical slots. The motion included mailing dates of January 1 through January 15, the preferred dates noted in a poll conducted by the APTA Division of Education. Discussion indicated some schools might have difficulty with those dates, as many schools are not in session during that time and a window of dates could not be agreed to. The motion containing the January dates was defeated. A second motion was made "that we voluntarily agree to a date for a national mailing request for sites by PT and PTA programs". That motion was deferred until the Scientific Meeting and Exposition in June 1998. Clinical educators in the room were encouraged to return to their consortia, clinical facilities and academic program and discuss the motion. The group recognized the impact of establishing a set of voluntary mailing dates and understood that significant compromises would be necessary in order for all programs to eventually accept the dates.
At the June 1998 CESIG business meeting in Orlando, clinical education representatives from across the country reported widespread acceptance of the concept of a uniform mailing date. The motion deferred from the February meeting "that we voluntarily agree to a date for a national mailing request for sites by PT and PTA programs" was passed unanimously.
Further, there was a unanimous agreement that the voluntary national mail-out date be between March 1 and 15 with a requested return date of April 30, and that the requests for slots be for the following calendar year only.
The voluntary uniform mail-out date was implemented in 1999.
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