{"id":4238,"date":"2015-11-20T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2015-11-18T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:56:40","slug":"pt-alumni-chapter-sponsors-multiple-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2015\/11\/20\/pt-alumni-chapter-sponsors-multiple-events\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Alumni Chapter sponsors multiple events"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Physical Therapy Alumni Chapter sponsored a farewell pizza party for the third-year students the week before they departed on their clinical rotations. The Chapter and the Division of PT Education were also sponsors of the Nebraska Physical Therapy Association Fall Conference held at UNMC on Oct 17th as well as financial sponsors of the National Student Conclave (NSC).<\/p>\n

Twenty-seven UNMC DPT students were among over 800 PT and PTA students from across the country in attendance at the NSC October 22-24. This year, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) hosted the conclave in Omaha at the CenturyLink. NSC<\/a> is an annual national conference directed at PT and PTA students and is designed specifically to help them prepare for their careers in physical therapy.<\/p>\n

UNMC faculty presentations accepted for the conference:<\/p>\n

“Teamwork: The Most Important Thing about Patient Care You May Not Know,” Katherine Jones, PT, PhD; Kathleen Volkman, PT, MS, NCS; Andreia Nebel, PT, DPT*; and Karen Abboud, PTA, MHA, CLT*
\nThis was an educational session that highlighted how teamwork skills can enhance patient care.
\n*From Clarkson College\u2019s PTA program.<\/p>\n

\"Kathy<\/a>

Kathy Volkman and Katherine Jones, PhD<\/p><\/div>\n

\"NSC<\/a>

Sara Bills, Julie Hoffman, Terry Greindstaff, Karen Abboud, and Dawn Venema<\/p><\/div>\n

“Academia: The Good Life<\/a>,” Dawn Venema, PT, PhD; Karen Abboud, PTA, MHA, CLT*; Sara Bills, PT, DPT, GCS; Terry Grindstaff, PT, ATC, PhD, SCS, CSCS**; and Julie Hoffman, PT, DPT, CCS**
\nThis was a panel discussion about academic career opportunities
\n*From Clarkson College\u2019s PTA program.
\n**From Creighton.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Physical Therapy Alumni Chapter sponsored a farewell pizza party for the third-year students the week before they departed on their clinical rotations. The Chapter and the Division of PT Education were also sponsors of the Nebraska Physical Therapy Association Fall Conference held at UNMC on Oct 17th as well as financial sponsors of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45,46,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associate-deans-office","category-frontpage","category-health","category-kudos","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}