Research or Clinical based?

[water37]

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Hello everyone,

I'm planning to start applying two years from now and I'm curious as to which schools are more research or clinical based. Schools that I'm most interested in are:

University of Utah
University of Florida
University of Southern California
University of Washington
Chapman University
University of Delaware
University of Miami
Pacific University

I would really appreciate your input if you happen to know anything about these schools. Thank you so much!

 

[Welsh Wizard]

UW is more research based, don't know about the others!

 

[Azimuthal]

USC is research based.

 

[dizzy88]

Utah is more research based.

 

[JRS69]

UF is research based.

 

[goyo1010]

UW is more research based, don't know about the others!

For reals. If you check out the faculty CVs, they got some crazy stuff going on.

 

[NewTestament]

UM- Research based.
UDel- Research based

 

[GTT4DPT]

Are there any programs out there (not just those listed by the OP) that would proudly carry the banner of a "clinical" basis vs. a "research" basis?

Given standards for accreditation and where this field seems to be moving, I just find myself confused on this point.

 

[jblil]

IMO, most schools will emphasize their "research" component more so than the "clinical" one, because research brings in grant money. So even if a school has an excellent clinically-oriented program, it'd still choose to play up the research angle.

 

[Outdoors]

a clinical program can be found anywhere that has a strong Med School program

Med school=clinic=Patient examples for the PT program

anywhere that doesnt have a strong med program or more importantly doesnt have a large hospital on campus will be more research based.

 

[kingsandmen]

a clinical program can be found anywhere that has a strong Med School program

Med school=clinic=Patient examples for the PT program

anywhere that doesnt have a strong med program or more importantly doesn't have a large hospital on campus will be more research based.

I'm not sure how you get this idea. UF for example has an excellent med school and a large well known hospital (shands) attached to it. It also is a hub of research activity for many of the health science programs. UM has the exact same situation. I can't comment on the other schools but it doesn't make much sense to me. It seems logical that big teaching university hospitals would have clinical research being done on site.

To the OP. I'm not sure I really understand how a school could be more research based or clinical based... aren't clinical decisions informed by research and isn't research based on questions generated in the clinic. Further any accredited school is going to prepare you for both the clinic and for reading research. Even still you're obtaining a clinical doctorate (a degree to prepare you for the clinic) no school is demanding all its graduates go into research but all schools will prepare you for the clinic and will incorporate some form of evidence based practice into the curriculum. In my opinion I don't think that just because a program has a significant number of research faculty you'll be taught that drastically different, the research is out there for everyone to read and every school is teaching you a large body of knowledge to pass a licensing exam. That being said at those programs where more research is conducted you'll likely learn about faculty specific research, have opportunities to participate in their studies, and you may be asked to complete some kind of small research project (a lot of schools do this). Those opportunities may not be as available at other schools. But I don't think any of those activities in of itself justifies picking one school over another, but that's just my opinion.

 

[Outdoors]

kings, you are right they both are closely related.

But it is hard to have a clinical program when there is no hospital/med program associated with the school. For example, it is easy to talk about the symptoms of a stroke patient....another whole deal to talk about a stroke patient and bring one down to talk to the class from another part of the campus