Clinical Education SIG

• To provide a vehicle for increasing and improving communication among clinical educators.
• To increase the participation of clinical educators in the APTA Academy of Education.
• 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 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.

• 2023

  • Nov 17, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  • Oct 10, 2023 - Oct 10, 2023 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  • Sept 22, 2023 - September 22, 2023 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  • Aug 21, 2023 - CESIG Meeting Minutes

• Jun 22, 2023 - June 22, 2023 
  May 25, 2023 - 5-25-23 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  Apr 25, 2023 - 4-25-23 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  Mar 23, 2023 - 3-23-23 CESIG Meeting Minutes
  Feb 23, 2023 - CSM2023 CESIG Business Meeting Minutes
  Feb 23, 2023 - CSM2023 CESIG Business Meeting PowerPoint Slides
  Jan 26, 2023 - 1-26-23 CESIG Meeting Minutes

Prior Years

View Clinical Education SIG Meeting Minutes - Prior years

To view the SIG Standing Rules, please click here. 

Academy of Education and ACAPT Physical Therapy Clinical Education Glossary

APTA Clinical Instructor Training and Credentialing

• • APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program Level 1
  • APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program Level 2
  • Becoming a Credentialed Clinical Trainer (Level 1 and 2)

Clinical Education Placement Process Taskforce Final Report

CE SIG Common Request:

• • CE SIG common request form 2016 - completed example
  • CE SIG common request form 2016
    
    

Voluntary Uniform Mailing Date

Medicare Supervision Guidelines for Students

Clinical Site Information Form (CSIF) On-Line

Accessing Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI)

• • Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument
  • Physical Therapist Assistant Clinical Performance Instrument

Clinical Education Consortia

Model ACCE/DCE Position Description

• • Model Position Description for the ACCE/DCE - PT Program
  • Model Position Description for the ACCE/DCE - PTA Program

ACCE/DCE Performance Assessments

Clinical Education Resources: ACCE, SCCE, CI

Reference Manual For Site Coordinators of Clinical Education

Collaborative Clinical Education: Success in the 2:1 Model

The Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant Clinical Performance Instruments are performance assessments designed to evaluate student performance during their clinical experiences. The CPI is completed by the Clinical Instructor at midterm and at the end of the clinical experience. Students also complete a self-evaluation using the same tool. During the student's clinical experience, the CI provides opportunities that allow the student to practice specific skills and behaviors that correspond with the student's current level of academic preparation (American Physical Therapy Association, 2018).

The PT CPI was developed in 1997 and revised in 2006. The PTA CPI was developed in 1998 and revised in 2009. Both instruments underwent content and format changes and were adapted from paper-and-pencil administration to online administration. In 2020, APTA partnered with HumRRO (a research company) to streamline the CPI content and rating scales and, as a result, continued to build support for the validity and reliability of the CPI. The psychometric review of the CPIs and the revisions were completed in November 2022, and APTA then partnered with CompetencyAI to create a new CPI 3.0 web platform. The new CPI 3.0 web platform was released on May 15, 2023.  

Anyone using the CPI, must first pass the required free training available through the APTA Learning Center. Successful completion of this training and assessment program (passing 100%) is required for all users to access the PT and PTA CPI 3.0.

Access PT/PTA CPI via APTA Learning Center