USF Health School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

Do not miss our annual fall Open House event to learn more about our DPT program! Meet faculty, students, see our facilities, and get your questions answered.

Register here: bit.ly/usfdptopen26

Hot Off the Presses! Our NPTE Pass rate for the DPT Class of 2026 was 98.1%, maintaining our high program outcomes.

Starting her 15th year with USF, Dr. Ditwiler was also recently promoted to the rank of Professor! Congratulations, Dr. Ditwiler.

Orientation is over! We had a blast welcoming the DPT Class of 2029 through activities, therapy dogs at our resource fair, and a social sponsored by PT Solutions Physical Therapy!

Our orientation focuses on getting to know each other, learning all our resources, and building connections. 💚🤘💚

We officially share the DPT Class of 2029! Excited to have them on campus this week, finishing out orientation and preparing to start the program next week.

Check out this new research study! For info and eligibility refer to flyer below.

Orientation day 1, down! Even the faculty got in on the photo fun. 💚🤘💚

Dr. Lazinski was recently interviewed on JOPTE Academic Airways with Michael Seils PT, DPT, Ed.D, MBA about their new JOPTE article examining how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can support accreditation in physical therapist education.

The article explores how RAG-based AI tools can help programs interact with their own institutional knowledge in more meaningful and efficient ways while maintaining accuracy and transparency.

📖 Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42172529/

🖥️ YoutTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-BfTAmnSY

Session 2: Dr. Michael Seils & Dr. Melissa Lazinski; Leveraging AI to Enhance Accreditation Tasks On this session, Dr. Michael Seils (University of Buffalo) and Dr. ...