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309. What To Know Before Becoming a Physical Therapist! | Pre PT Chat Live

·1 hr 3 min·2 clips

Physical therapy school is just a product, like a car, a house, or a TV, and you are the customer.

1. Pre-PT Grind's first Pre-PT Chat Live, streamed across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter, centers on "what to know before becoming a physical therapist." 2. Casey, a physical therapist and co-founder of Pre-PT Grind, hosts solo, with viewer questions from Carter, Ricky, and Bella taken in a Q&A after about 38 minutes. 3. The show is split into five parts: what's happening in PT, "think like a physical therapist," PT program and application updates, the main event, and Q&A. 4. The news segment explains the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule as how clinicians are reimbursed, noting a planned 3.4% cut to PT services in 2024 and an APTA letter to Congress on Bill H.R. 6683. 5. A pop quiz covers the rotator cuff muscles, "SITS" (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis), followed by a 2021 finding from the University of Basel of a new masseter layer, musculus masseter pars coronoidea. 6. The application update points viewers to the APTA PTCAS program directory, where schools such as Tufts, South College, and Manchester University post information sessions, and notes the cycle runs from June 15, 2023 to June 2024. 7. Casey's first two points are that "no profession is perfect," so candidates should choose which drawbacks they can tolerate, and that school costs vary, with some programs totaling about $35,000 and others far higher. 8. His third point says the average PT salary is about $86,000 but ranges from roughly $65,000 to $150,000, with part-time pay near $12,000 and business owners potentially earning $1 million. 9. His last two points are that healthcare is a business where "productivity is expected," and that "you are your own professional" who can take a license anywhere, a theme that continues in Q&A on PT Compact states, PTs versus PTAs as "a coach and an assistant coach," and the claim that majors don't matter for admission. 10. Suited to pre-PT students weighing cost, pay, and career realities.

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