Launching Your Professional Career
Credit Information
This course is approved for 2.5 CCUs for PT and PTA license renewal.
Publisher
TPTA
Description
This program will focus on the skills new physical therapists and physical therapist assistants need to be successful in the first 5 years of practice. Participants will receive information needed to manage their careers and meet their professional goals. Topics will include: planning your professional development, conflict management, financial planning, salary negotiation, the benefits of mentors and networking, and balancing your personal and professional life.
Objectives:
- Identify and articulate career/professional goals
- Describe a plan to meet their career/professional goals
- Describe methods of conflict management that can be applied to professional and personal situations Identify important factors and tactics in salary and benefit negotiations
- Identify important factors in financial planning
- Describe methods to balance the demands of professional and personal life
Timothy Lyons PT
Mr.Timothy Lyons has been practicing physical therapy since 1982. Mr. Lyons focus over the last 15 years has been in health care administration incorporating the business component of health care with the provision of quality services. Mr. Lyons continues to practice in acute care facilities and is an adjunct instructor with various physical therapy programs teaching health care and business management. He has been involved in his professional association at the local, state and national level for over 20 years.
Janna McGaugh PT, ScD, OCS
Dr. Janna McGaugh is an Assistant Professor in the School Health Profession Department of Physical Therapy in Galveston, Texas. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Texas A&M University, her Masters of Physical Therapy from the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, and her Doctor of Science from Texas Tech University Health Science Center. Dr. McGaugh is an APTA Orthopedic Certified Specialist, and received her Certification in Orthopedic Medicine and Manual Therapy through the IAOM. Dr. McGaugh’s teaching responsibilities include orthopedic evaluation and treatment of spine and extremities. Research activities include investigations concerning the spine and the lower extremity.
Lois Stickley, PT, PhD
Dr. Stickley is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the Program Director of TTUHSC’s transitional DPT program, and the Assistant Program Director of TTUHSC’s DPT program. Dr. Stickley is the Panhandle District Chair, co-chair of the TPTA Membership Committee, and has previously served as Delegate and Chief Delegate to the APTA’s House of Delegates. She has spoken numerous times on the topic of leadership and professional development.