Course Description

The APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program is a voluntary program designed primarily for people interested in or involved with clinical education, such as clinical instructors, site coordinators of clinical education, and directors of clinical education. Other health care providers who offer clinical education in a supervisory role to students, including physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, and health care providers from other professions can use this program to enhance their clinical instruction education. (APTA Website: https://www.apta.org/for-educators/clinical-education-development/ccip-level-1#CCIP1/)

Certified Clinical Instructor Training Program Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the parallels between the characteristics of the practitioner and clinical educator.
2. Prepare for students’ clinical education experiences.
3. Identify student learning needs and areas of competence.
4. Design high-quality learning experiences for students at all levels of experience.
5. Implement clinical teaching methods and supervisory techniques that support ongoing adult learning.
6. Provide effective formative and summative evaluation.
7. Recognize legal and supervisory implications for clinical educators, including issues presented by the Americans with Disabilities Act legislation, Medicare regulations, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights.
8. Identify student-specific qualities and performance indicators.

Assessment Center: The Assessment Center component of this program allows physical therapists and physical therapist assistants to apply information from the education program in simulated situations. Successful completion of all aspects of the Assessment Center result in the awarding of the APTA clinical instructor credential. The Assessment Center is integrated into the program schedule.

Registration Information

Registration and payment of all fees must be completed directly through the APTA website. See registration instructions below.

How To Register

Registration can only be done through the APTA website. You are looking to register for the course being held at Rutgers: Course number 202509NJ062.

Registration Fees

• APTA Member: $110.00
• All others: $225.00

Please follow the attached instructions to register! If you have difficulty registering for this course, please contact the APTA directly at ccip@apta.org or (703)706-8531

Dr. Dennise Krencicki, PT, DPT, MA is an Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education in the DPT Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

She teaches in the area of professional issues, clinical education and ethics, Dr. Krencicki became a credentialed clinical instructor in 1998 and was certified as a level 1 course trainer in 2002. She was in the first group to be certified as a credentialed CI and trainer for the advanced course in 2008. In 2021, she was recertified to teach both Level 1 and Level 2 courses.

She has her BS in PT from Boston University, MA in Applied Physiology from Columbia University, and her post-professional DPT from UMDNJ. She has been active in APTA, including serving terms as NJ Chapter President, Chief Delegate, Chair of the Chapter Ethics Committee, and Active Delegate for over 30 years. She also served as a Physical Therapist Member of the New Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 7 years, holding positions of Secretary and Vice Chairperson and recently completed her 5- year appointment to APTA’s Ethics and Judicial Committee.

Dr. Nancy Mingelgreen, PT, DPT, CLT is an Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education in the DPT Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

She teaches in the areas of professional behaviors, clinical education, communication, teaching and learning, lymphedema and edema management, and a variety of other topics. Additionally, Dr. Mingelgreen manages the DPT Program’s post-professional continuing education program. Dr. Mingelgreen became a CCIP Level 1 Trainer in 2019. She received her BSPT from the University of Pennsylvania and her DPT from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, now Rutgers University.

Dr. Ruth Lyons Hansen, PT, DPT, PhD is a Professor and Program Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where she previously served as the Director of Clinical Education.

Ruth is board certified by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy. She has been a certified trainer for the American Physical Therapy Association’s Clinical Instructor Credentialing Program since 1998. She has over 40 years of clinical experience with the majority of that working with clients with cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. She has published and presented research at state and national conferences in areas relating to cardiovascular disease prevention and clinical education.

Course Description

This 2.5 credit Ethics Course is designed for PT and PTA’s who are engaged in the education of future therapists This 2.5 credit interactive problem-solving course is based on current topics facing those engaged in clinical and academic education. The course focuses on the challenges of managing clinical education in the context of today’s health care and social environment including topics such as social media, student values, emerging technology and self-care. It builds on previous ethics knowledge.

The course is designed to integrate the core values of our profession into everyday clinical interactions in the academic and clinical environments. The use of the core documents are the foundation of ethical decision making and are integrated into the decision making process used in the course and becomes part of the professional behaviors of the participants. This course requires active participation in problem solving.

Please note: This is a LIVE webinar. You must have a working camera on the device you are using to join this session and have the camera on so you can actively participate. If your camera is not working, we can reschedule you for another course.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze a situation to determine if there is an ethical issue.
2. Apply the principles of ethical decision making to the ethical situations presented
3. Employ professional core documents in resolving ethical situations.
4. Consider the challenges of emerging technology, student values and practice dynamics.

Registration Information

Please select the session you wish to attend carefully (“think twice, click once!”) as it is difficult to make changes once registration has taken place. A cancellation fee will be applied for changes (see cancellation policy below.) Also, please note that Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday November 6, 2022. If you select that session, you must show up to the course on time!

How To Register

There are 2 steps for registering for this course. You must do both!

Step 1: Registering through Rutgers:
Payment can only be accepted through our secure online website.  Payment may be made with MasterCard, Discover, or Visa credit cards. American Express is not accepted. Payment can also be made using an electronic check.

Step 2: Registering through Zoom (no additional fee)
Once you submit payment, you will receive a
link asking you to register through Zoom. Please use the same email address you used in our online
registration/payment system. You will need to register through Zoom in order to receive the actual
link to your selected Ethics course session!

To register, visit:

https://apps.shp.rutgers.edu/projects/onlinepayment/PT/PT_form.cfm

Registration Fees

• UMDNJ / Rutgers PT Alumni: $45.00
• Rutgers DPT Clinical Educators: $45.00
• APTA Member: $45.00
• All others: $65.00

Cancellation / Refund: A full refund, less a $15.00 cancellation fee, will be granted if notice is received at least 48 hours in advance of the program. Refunds cannot be given for “no shows” or cancellations received after that time. If you register for a session, you may not switch it for another session unless you cancel and re-register through the link (this will incur the $15.00 cancellation fee. Cancellations should be made directly through Nancy Mingelgreen at nancy.mingelgreen@rutgers.edu. Please attach your receipt to your cancellation email.

Please attach your receipt to your cancellation email.

Continuing Education Credits

This course has been approved for 2.5 CEs by the New Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. As it is a synchronous event (presented on Zoom) it counts towards your “live” CE credits, and satisfies your Ethics course requirement for this licensing period! Board Course Number 2308-36.

Rutgers University’s Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy is recognized by the NY State Education Department’s State Board of Physical Therapy, and by the Pennsylvania State Board of Physical Therapy, as an Approved Provider of Physical Therapy and Physical Therapist Assistant Continuing Education.

For additional Information, please email Nancy Mingelgreen: mingelna@shp.rutgers.edu.

Nancy R. Kirsch, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA is a professor of physical therapy and Chairperson of the Department of Rehab and Movement Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

She currently serves on the Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, Division of Consumer Affairs in New Jersey. She is completing her term of President of the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, and previously served as President of the New Jersey Chapter of the APTA. She also served as Chair of the national APTA Reference Committee and Ethics and Judicial Committee. She is on the faculty of PROBE a national ethics remediation program. She is currently serving on the APTA task force to review and revise the Associations core documents.

Dr. Kirsch presents on topics in ethics and risk management on the national level at APTA and other professional meetings.

Her academic and research interest is professional behavior, moral injury, ethical decision making and ethical risk factors. Dr. Kirsch writes a column in APTA Magazine, called Ethics in Practice and is author of the text Ethics in Physical Therapy.