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Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) - degree

Catalog description

The Physical Therapist Assistant curriculum prepares graduates to work in direct patient care settings under the supervision of physical therapists. Assistants work to improve or restore function by alleviation or prevention of physical impairment and perform other essential activities in a physical therapy department.

Course work includes normal human anatomy and physiology, the consequences of disease or injury, and physical therapy treatment of a variety of patient conditions affecting humans throughout the life span.

Graduates may be eligible to take the licensure examination administered by the NC Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. Employment is available in general hospitals, rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, specialty hospitals, home health agencies, private clinics, and public school systems. Students must graduate from a CAPTE-accredited school to be eligible to sit for the licensing exam. Physical Therapist Assistants must be licensed to practice in North Carolina.

The Surry Community College PTA program utilizes a selective admissions process. The admission criteria can be viewed at: http://depts.surry.edu/admissions/physical_therapy.html .

The deadline to apply for the 2010 Fall Semester will be February 19, 2010.

The program will accept 16 students and 2 alternates for fall semester 2010 and will accept a new cohort of 16 each fall semester. Prospective students are encouraged to begin taking related course work in preparation for the 2-year program at SCC.

Related course work includes:

ENG 111: Expository Writing
ENG 114: Professional Research and Report Writing or ENG 112: Argument Based Research
PHY 110: Conceptual Physics
PHY 110A: Conceptual Physics Lab
PSY 150: General Psychology
PSY 241: Developmental Psychology
Humanities/Fine Arts Elective
BIO 168: Anatomy & Physiology I
BIO 169: Anatomy & Physiology II

The Health Sciences career field has become a top industry across most of NC, and the licensed PTA is a highly-sought member of the heath care professions.

The average salary for a licensed PTA is $19.41/hour in NC.

At this time, Surry's PTA program “has been granted Candidate for Accreditation status by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association (1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314; phone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org<mailto:accreditation@apta.org>). Candidacy is not an accreditation status nor does it assure eventual accreditation. Candidate for Accreditation is a pre-accreditation status of affiliation with the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education that indicates the program is progressing toward accreditation."