{"id":4825,"date":"2016-10-12T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2016-10-11T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:25:50","slug":"workshop-provides-valuable-tips-for-our-pt-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2016\/10\/12\/workshop-provides-valuable-tips-for-our-pt-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop provides valuable tips for our PT students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><em>By Keriann Shaw, SPT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On September 9, 2016, the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education hosted a workshop in Storz Pavilion led by Brian Gallagher, CEO of MEG Business Management.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Gallagher is a physical therapist, private practice owner of 2011 <em>Advance<\/em> magazine\u2019s \u201cPractice of the Year,\u201d and a nationally known physical therapy management consultant. MEG Business Management, established and owned by Gallagher, is a consulting firm for privately owned PT practices that focuses on helping owners advance to the \u201ctop 10% of practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The workshop focused on bridging the gap between new graduate physical therapists and employers. Highlights included strategies for marketability, communication, teamwork, efficiency, and professionalism. Mr. Gallagher also detailed the business aspect of private practices and valuable tips for resumes and interviews including key components that employers are seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Following the workshop, Mr. Gallagher expressed his thoughts about his inaugural presentation designed for DPT students:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy time at UNMC was refreshing and reassuring that the physical therapy profession is soon to be receiving some high quality individuals with the desire and knowledge of how they can stay on purpose and exchange in abundance with not only their patients, but also their employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This event was sponsored by Students of the University of Nebraska-American Physical Therapy Association (SUN-APTA) and the Division of Physical Therapy Education.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Keriann Shaw, SPT On September 9, 2016, the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education hosted a workshop in Storz Pavilion led by Brian Gallagher, CEO of MEG Business Management. Brian Gallagher is a physical therapist, private practice owner of 2011 Advance magazine\u2019s \u201cPractice of the Year,\u201d and a nationally known physical therapy management consultant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,45,46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-frontpage","category-health","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","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=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}