Mar 03, 2026  
NIACC Catalog 2025-2026 
    
NIACC Catalog 2025-2026

PTA - 499 PTA Clinic I


(2.5 s.h.)

Prerequisites:  PTA - 162 PTA Assessment Procedures  and  PTA - 203 PTA Therapeutic Exercise 
This clinical occurs in the final two weeks of the third term and extends one week outside the term (3-week full-time clinical experience). Skills, knowledge, and attitudes learned in completed PTA course work will be applied to direct patient care in selected clinical settings. Includes application/integration of current and previous PTA course work with goal of student providing safe, quality care with uncomplicated to complex patients and a high to moderate degree of supervision/guidance that will vary with the complexity of the patient or the environment. This course has been designated as a pass/no pass course.

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Clinical Hours: 112.5
Work Experience Hours: 0