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President’s
Message
Fall,
2003
"Power
can be seen as power with rather than power over, and it can be
used for competence and cooperation, rather than dominance and control."
Anne L. Barstow
I always find this
time of year exciting, as we begin again the cycle of academic life.
I hope your summer was a chance for enrichment and renewal. Summer
should be an opportunity for creativity, as we adjust our schedules
to allow more time for reflection and intellectual thought. But the
return of student s to our campuses in the fall brings us other great
opportunities through our challenging and rewarding work in teaching
and scholarship.
I am struck by the
parallels to this cycle of academic life in the recent activities with
our profession. This summer has been a very busy one in the PT education
arena. In the past four months the APTA’s Department of Education has
led new initiatives in the following areas:
• Development
of Educational Research Priorities
• A major revision of the Normative Model for PT Education incorporating
the results of last year’s Consensus Conference on Professionalism
• The start of the revision of the Accreditation Criteria for PT Education.
Each one of these
activities required creativity, reflection, and hard work. And members
of the Education Section were involved in each one, representing all
of us admirably. This fall and winter you will be seeing the products
of these meetings and will have much opportunity to provide your own
responses to the work. Please allow yourself some time to review this
material as your receive it. Each of these activities brings us closer
to APTA’s Vision 2020, helping us to prepare PTs and PTA for practice
for the future.
The Section has also
laid plans this summer for changes we are implementing this fall. As
we alerted you in the last Bulletin, this is our first ever all-electronic
issue. Fran Huber and her committee have wonderful plans for services
to assist you in your role as a teacher and scholar. Watch your e-mail
for notice of our new features.
Laurita
Hack, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA
APTA Education Section President
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