I currently have ~100 outpatient hours and only ~15 inpatient hours. I'm currently trying to set up observations with a SNF. Should I focus on getting MORE inpatient hours or MORE variety? Thanks!
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Definitely more variety...Before I got accepted to UM - Flint, I took a visit and sat down with the Admissions Advisor. She straight up told me that schools (in Michigan anyways but I'd assume everywhere) would accept someone with 200 hours made of 3-4 settings over someone with 400 hours in one setting.
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One of the great themes on this forum is that variety trumps quantity. So yes, volunteer at a SNF or a hospital. If you can observe a home-health PT, that's even better. Start researching your area to find these places.
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also check out specialty places...it's probably too late now, but elementary schools that have strong therapeutic services can be really interesting to get some good peds experience. I shadowed at an alternative school with a PT for a few days and gained a lot from that experience.
Home health would be unique as well - not many people have that experience coming into PT school, and it's an interesting field.
SNF or acute care (unless that's what you mean by inpatient?) and long-term rehab are also potential areas to explore.
Depending on the focus of outpatient, you can sometimes get a variety of worthwhile outpatient. For example, I worked for a 90% ortho outpatient clinic, but volunteered at an outpatient 100% neuro facility where it was all post-stroke, MS and Parkinson's patients, etc. It's an entirely different world.
Home health would be unique as well - not many people have that experience coming into PT school, and it's an interesting field.
SNF or acute care (unless that's what you mean by inpatient?) and long-term rehab are also potential areas to explore.
Depending on the focus of outpatient, you can sometimes get a variety of worthwhile outpatient. For example, I worked for a 90% ortho outpatient clinic, but volunteered at an outpatient 100% neuro facility where it was all post-stroke, MS and Parkinson's patients, etc. It's an entirely different world.
