I've seen on different threads that quite a few people have applied to NAU. I just received an interview offer for Feb 27. Anybody else hear anything?
Good luck to you both! Great school. I love it here, well when it is not snowy...
I like that each teacher has been a PT for a very long time. One of the anatomy instructors actually started the program in the 80s. It is heavily evidence based and performance driven. I chose to go to NAU because it was the highest ranked of my choices and the cheapest. They teach us not to be only a PT, but to be a great clinician. Just today I was telling one of my classmates that I was so interested during my neuro class yesterday and he agreed. They just make every subject interesting, applicable and fun. Very glad I chose to go here..
What was intense? I thought the interviews last year were laid back.
We used the simulated patients (dummies) as training tools for practicing transfers and such before we practiced on each other. It was also one of our assignments to walk into a room and asses what was wrong with our patient, i.e is the oxygen hooked up, is his iv kinked, catheter below urinary bladder etc. One of the class assignments was to teach all the transfer training to the nurses as well. As far as exposure to patients, don't worry, you get plenty of that. They just like to make sure you don't kill a dummy first...it helps that the nursing building is like fifty feet away from us as well..
Might be because it was only in our first semester we did this. May change for you guys. The program is like that, lots of evolution within, but the core stays generally the same. We dont call it patient simulation, we just had it as part of our patient management class. I may be completely off though and Dr. Cornwall may have some different things in store. I know in our second year we work with actual ortho patients as the "therapist" and a faculty member oversees us. We also have a neuro lab with actual patients pretty regularly. The only other patient simulation is where Cornwall acts like he is a patient with a list of symptoms and you have to diagnose him. Kinda fun, especially when he was a 60 year old woman with fybromyalgia that didnt present as it generally does and was crazy as hell. Makes for some effective learning.