Mid-Term Exam 2016
The following are my written responses to the denoted questions for my mid-term exam in Professional Issues.
Question 1: Here I will define “critical thinking” and discuss the impact of critical thinking by a physical therapist on “quality” and “value”, which are components of the updated vision 2020. Critical thinking is a purposefully refined and elevated mode of thinking wherein an individual asserts control over their own biases and innate tendencies, approaches problems and situations systematically, and analyzes and reanalyzes—self-correcting as needed. A physical therapist will surely need to utilize his or her critical thinking skills when seeking to provide high quality and high value care to patients. Quality …show more content…
Drawing from this, he presents the idea of developing a “functional Multiple Intelligences theory (fMI)”, (2013) so it can be actually tested. Testing of this fMI may result in demonstration of how learning through various information processing units of the brain facilitates, inhibits, or does not interact with learning through others. While I would love to see results of these tests if they were ever performed, the fact remains that these processing regions of the brain have already been verified. Just as humans have a wide variety of innate logic and verbal intelligence, humans also have a wide variety of innate auditory, kinesthetic, and visuospatial processing capacities. The very existence of these seems to support MI as a more complete picture of human intelligence than the traditional model. The fMI simply allows us a means of testing and determining ways to implement MI into the educational …show more content…
In her time, reconstruction aides, and later physiotherapists, treated wounded veterans and other severely debilitated individuals such as those with polio. Now the population that we treat as physical therapists ranges from those same types of cases to athletes to the general populous with a variety of ailments. In fact, expansion to preventative therapy promises to further expand the population that we service as physical therapists. I would share this with her so that she could understand the magnitude of impact that physical therapists have on society, which is remarkable seeing as how it began with 274 chartered members under the American Women’s Physical Therapeutics Association. Second, I would share with Mary that although there have been incredible advances in technology resulting in the rise of myriad useful modalities, the core therapeutic techniques that most physical therapists utilize are still therapeutic exercises. Certainly, she would be stunned by the spectacular array of devices that are incredibly helpful in facilitating patient rehabilitation. However, I feel it would be gratifying for her to know that even as we learn more about the human movement system, we seem to continually verify that exercise is key and that they were on the right
The following are my written responses to the denoted questions for my mid-term exam in Professional Issues.
Question 1: Here I will define “critical thinking” and discuss the impact of critical thinking by a physical therapist on “quality” and “value”, which are components of the updated vision 2020. Critical thinking is a purposefully refined and elevated mode of thinking wherein an individual asserts control over their own biases and innate tendencies, approaches problems and situations systematically, and analyzes and reanalyzes—self-correcting as needed. A physical therapist will surely need to utilize his or her critical thinking skills when seeking to provide high quality and high value care to patients. Quality …show more content…
Drawing from this, he presents the idea of developing a “functional Multiple Intelligences theory (fMI)”, (2013) so it can be actually tested. Testing of this fMI may result in demonstration of how learning through various information processing units of the brain facilitates, inhibits, or does not interact with learning through others. While I would love to see results of these tests if they were ever performed, the fact remains that these processing regions of the brain have already been verified. Just as humans have a wide variety of innate logic and verbal intelligence, humans also have a wide variety of innate auditory, kinesthetic, and visuospatial processing capacities. The very existence of these seems to support MI as a more complete picture of human intelligence than the traditional model. The fMI simply allows us a means of testing and determining ways to implement MI into the educational …show more content…
In her time, reconstruction aides, and later physiotherapists, treated wounded veterans and other severely debilitated individuals such as those with polio. Now the population that we treat as physical therapists ranges from those same types of cases to athletes to the general populous with a variety of ailments. In fact, expansion to preventative therapy promises to further expand the population that we service as physical therapists. I would share this with her so that she could understand the magnitude of impact that physical therapists have on society, which is remarkable seeing as how it began with 274 chartered members under the American Women’s Physical Therapeutics Association. Second, I would share with Mary that although there have been incredible advances in technology resulting in the rise of myriad useful modalities, the core therapeutic techniques that most physical therapists utilize are still therapeutic exercises. Certainly, she would be stunned by the spectacular array of devices that are incredibly helpful in facilitating patient rehabilitation. However, I feel it would be gratifying for her to know that even as we learn more about the human movement system, we seem to continually verify that exercise is key and that they were on the right