The 800 Mindset: NPTE Prep, Active Recall & Becoming a Better Clinician

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Hello everyone.
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There is passing the boards and then
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there's walking into the boards wanting to
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leave with no doubt.
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Today's guest had a number in mind,
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eight hundred.
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And not because every future clinician
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needs a perfect score,
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not because a number defines whether
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you'll become a great PT or a PTA,
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but because the way that you prepare when
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you're aiming for mastery can change the
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way that you learn and maybe even the
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way that you practice.
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Our guest today is only twenty one years
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old,
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is already working as a physical therapist
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assistant across outpatient,
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inpatient and acute care settings.
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And at the same time,
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he's a first year PT student at the
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same time.
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All of this.
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I don't know how you're doing it.
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So, yes,
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we're going to have to talk about how
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in the world that, you know,
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you balance being a clinician and a full
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time student at the same time.
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We're also going to dig into active recall
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practice exams,
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your eighty twenty rule of board
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preparation,
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work life study balance and the question
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that some PTAs eventually ask themselves,
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which is, do I go back for DPT?
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And underneath all of that is another
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story.
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He is a first generation college student
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who has thought intentionally about the
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return on his education and is now
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building the next stage of his career
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while already treating patients.
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He has a PTA plus an SPT.
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All the way from Arkansas,
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this is Dillinger Carr.
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Welcome to the show, Dillinger.
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Hi, hey.
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Yes, hey, before we get started,
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So now let's go ahead and just get
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right into this conversation.
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Dillinger, eight hundred.
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Yes, ma'am.
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So well done.
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Well done.
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I think it's interesting the way,
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you know, it got put out there.
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So my main to start, I guess,
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at the
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course to pass it.
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And then my I've had have and do
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still have because I'm going back to the
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same school still work with those
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professors,
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but had amazing instructors and
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professors.
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And they were like, Listen, like,
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you could, you know,
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based off your test scores,
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make an eight hundred.
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And you know, and I was like, Okay,
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yeah, I'll, I'll see what I can do.
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And so, you know,
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after my spring semester PTA school,
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looking at boards in July, I was like,
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Okay, like,
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let's see what a
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what I can do to shape myself up
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to get an eight hundred.
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And so it took a lot of,
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you know,
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we'll get to more of it later,
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but looking at my study habits and stuff
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like that and seeing what I needed to
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do to shape up to that.
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So taking a lot of practice exams,
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going through flashcards, all this stuff.
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Anyways, and then after doing that,
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it wasn't until much later that the story
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got published.
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So I was in the clinic.
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I got into the clinic one day and
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some patients were like,
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I saw you on my Facebook feed.
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I was like, oh boy, what's going on?
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And so it was really cool having that
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come out.
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We'll get to it later more again,
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but I think everyone's goal as a PTA
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or PT student when passing the board
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should be passing,
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but I think it's easier than some people
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think to get an .
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I don't think it's this impossible feat,
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if that makes sense.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's break this down a little bit.
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So initially, yeah, pass the boards,
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right?
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Like that's the goal of everybody, right?
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And really as an educator,
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that's our goal too for our students.
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Like our goal is that you are going
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to be successful.
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That's why we spend so much time in
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our labs and in our classrooms and through
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clinical experiences.
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Like nobody wants to see students get all
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the way through and then not be
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successful.
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And that's why there are such strict
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guidelines
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guidelines and grading schemes and all of
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that.
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PTA educators and PT educators,
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we want our students to be successful.
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There's nobody that's out there that's
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trying to not make students successful in
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the end with all of this.
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And your program has to speak to that
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too.
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So we are responsible as programs to
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release our data to the public.
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We're responsible to release our data to
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our accrediting body.
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So there's nothing good that comes from it
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if students are successful.
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So yes, the main goal, be successful,
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pass the NPTE.
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So it does sound like eventually, though,
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you started to realize that that eight
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hundred could be a possibility that
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passing.
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wasn't something that you could do,
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but just passing and doing a very good
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job getting the highest achievable score
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in the NPTE became a reality.
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Yeah.
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And my I was very fortunate to my
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professors have actually done research on,
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you know, NPTE prep and stuff like that.
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And what exactly what factors really
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contribute to being successful in the long
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run?
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And so having that in my
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having that professor on my team really
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helped because she was like,
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you're making these scores now on your
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Pete's and your score builders exams,
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all this stuff,
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you really have a good chance.
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And so that was,
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I think a huge part of anything,
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you know, not just this,
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but it's having people on your team.
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Like, yeah, you can do it.
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This sounds impossible.
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People rarely ever do it,
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but you really have a great shot and
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we'll give you the tools to do it.
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And so that's just another,
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I'm going to probably shout out the PTA
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program and the PT program at A-State a
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bunch, but they're, I mean,
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excellent instructors and people.
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That's okay.
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You can go ahead and sing their praises
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from this platform.
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I'm totally okay with that.
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I know that, you know, listen,
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PTA school is hard.
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I don't think, I mean,
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I know for a fact that it doesn't
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get near as much credit as what students
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really deserve.
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And honestly, faculty too.
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I mean,
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when you look at the faculty members who
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teach in PTA programs, I mean,
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especially in like your community colleges
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who maybe don't have the same,
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Structures, I guess,
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is maybe a university like it's a lot
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to get done in a two year period,
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like your faculty are working very hard.
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So, no, I absolutely agree.
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You should you should shout out to them.
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And that's great that they recognize that.
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And I think it's important that you also
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mentioned that they were in your corner.
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And I think that that's important for any
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student,
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even if they're not trying to like shoot
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for that eight hundred.
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Right.
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You know,
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having conversations with students,
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whether you're a clinical instructor or
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whether you are a faculty member or
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whether you are somebody else outside of
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the realm,
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having those discussions with students to
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help them believe that all of this is
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possible is
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is very vital to that student.
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You've got to be kind of speaking life
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into that,
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that study process and that study program.
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And yes, you can do it.
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Yes, you have the capability.
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Yes, you have the tools to be successful.
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We just got to implement it, right?
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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And to speak more of of the professors,
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my entire cohort passed was one percent
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pass rate across the board.
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So it was yeah, it was great.
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Great.
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And going back to, you know,
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eight hundred is more achievable than most
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people think.
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I mean, it's not a perfect score.
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You know, it is on the scale,
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whatever the uses, however that works.
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It is an eight hundred,
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but it is not.
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I got all the items correct.
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You know,
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it's it's I think I've heard the number
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like ninety three percent of the answers
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were answered correctly,
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which is still great.
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That's still good.
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Yeah, it's just kind of an interesting
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mystique, that's this perfect,
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you got all these questions, right,
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all this stuff.
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But, but yeah,
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and that's what's why I said,
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that's something that a lot of students
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should aim for, because be having the,
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you know,
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the study regimen that leads up to getting
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that score really helps in the program,
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or not the program in the clinic,
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I should say.
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Yeah, there is a definite
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divide between textbook and clinical based
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knowledge like there's there's two
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different things but if you know your
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anatomy your phys your your pathology all
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this stuff really well it makes it a
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lot easier to go into the clinic and
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practice um because not like every you
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know your patient's not going to ask you
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quiz questions but they're gonna they're
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gonna have um
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different signs, different symptoms,
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or you'll look at their chart and you'll
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see their CBC.
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And you can make a better judgment on
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that if you have that good foundation.
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And so that was one of my motivations
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as well.
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Not only, okay,
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I can maybe do this eight hundred thing,
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but also I want to be a great
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clinician.
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I want to have
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the knowledge to help my patients out.
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And I, it almost feels at a point,
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you know, if you,
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if I don't know something,
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I'm kind of doing them a disservice.
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I could have studied harder,
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could have learned more.
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And so that's,
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that's another thing that goes into,
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into that.
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Why, um, that should be,
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of course you aim high and then you
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get the six hundred.
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It's easy, right?
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You get the aim for the eight hundred,
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then you should be just fine on the
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board.
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Um, passing, passing wise.
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Yeah.
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I like that you made that clarification
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about the eight hundred.
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I do sometimes see that,
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that it's a perfect score.
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And I, of course,
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know that that's not it.
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It doesn't reflect a perfect score because
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there's well, number one,
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there's no way to know exactly how many
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you got right or wrong or anything like
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that.
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But
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It is the highest achieving score.
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Right.
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So that's still very commendable.
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And and it can have like students do
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this like, yeah,
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you and I are talking today,
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but there are multiple students who
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achieve an eight hundred, you know,
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in a year.
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So, yes, it can be done.
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And I think that knowing that eight
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hundred isn't perfect should make people
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feel better.
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Right.
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You know, because hopefully, you know,
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thinking like, oh, my gosh,
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they didn't miss even one single question
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on that.
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Like that's you know,
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that's that's asking a lot from anybody to
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put themselves on that kind of a standard.
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But yeah,
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this is the highest achieving score that
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you can get on the NPT.
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And it's a bit of a misnomer,
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but I just wanted to clarify that because,
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again,
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that does
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take away from some of like the,
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like there's no way I can get every
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single question right.
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We don't have to.
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No, exactly.
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Yeah.
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We're all human, right?
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Exactly.
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And many of the questions that you take
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on the NPTE are practice questions,
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and there's no way for you to know
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that either.
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So some of the questions that you took
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are literally questions that they are
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trialing to see if they're going to put
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them on a future NPTE, right?
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So there's no way that you as a
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student would know which ones are which.
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Those ones are like test, test questions.
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and may never be used again or might
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be used again.
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So there's, yeah,
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there's like four to you that you,
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that don't even count that exactly.
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So, yeah.
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Okay.
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So if I'm a PTA and I'm listening,
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which I am a PTA, but I'm not,
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I don't have to take my boards again.
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Thank goodness.
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That's done and over with.
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Thank goodness.
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I mean, honestly, like,
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I'd have to call you up and have
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you tutor me because it's been so long.
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It's funny because like, I don't, I don't,
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you know, yeah, I'm in PTA education,
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but I'm like,
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This has changed so much.
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My book was like,
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my study book was like this,
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like even half of this.
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It's like that then, you know?
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Really?
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When I graduated.
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Do you have yours close by?
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I wish I still had mine.
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I really do.
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I don't have the PTA one,
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but the PTA,
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PT one are about the same.
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Yep.
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This was what a friend gave to me.
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Yeah, mine was about...
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a quarter of that maybe but but that
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that was a thousand years ago too so
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um but yeah and i mean like even
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when i graduated which was a long time
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ago i'm totally dating myself here but in
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two thousand and four having a study book
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was something that you did extra like it
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wasn't that's that wasn't the norm you
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know students weren't just given a study
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book or anything like that and now
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A lot of this is integrated into PT
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and PTA programs.
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I don't know that every PT and PTA
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program doesn't,
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but I know a lot of them do
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tie in some kind of a study resource
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or a study book or a study course
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into their curriculum just to make sure
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that students have as much prep for the
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NPT as possible.
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Yes.
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And I'm glad we kind of got on
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that point because that would be a good
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segue into the tools.
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Yeah.
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You mentioned if you're a PTA student,
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maybe.
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Yeah.
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And I'm going to get ready to take
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my boards, like build me a playbook.
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Like, where do I start?
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Because I mean, this looks so different.
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So the one that we use that my
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program used was score builders.
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And, you know,
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I have no affiliation either does our
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program.
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We have no affiliation with them,
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but I think it's important if you are
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a student and your program gives you a
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book, it can be score builders, therapy,
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ed,
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whatever you use that you're not just
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reading that book.
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like you're not just going through and,
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okay,
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today I'm going to read this and this
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and this,
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and then that's all you're doing.
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That's not, that's not efficient at all.
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You know,
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if we're talking about our eighty twenty,
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right, Pareto's principle,
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it's eighty percent of the outcomes come
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from twenty percent of our inputs.
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So in this case,
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eighty percent of our correct answers of
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our new learning that's occurring is not
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coming from the textbook.
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It's coming from
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our flashcards, our practice exams.
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And so to walk someone through what I
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would do if I had this big old
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book is, again, not read through it,
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but to start with practice exams.
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I'd go through.
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I did tons of practice exams.
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That was the main thing I used,
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not just through ScoreBuilders, but,
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again, through other companies.
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I would go through.
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If I had a question right that was
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on the back burner,
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I would go through the ones that I
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got wrong first, go through,
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Why did I get it wrong?
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What's the rationale?
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And then go through every answer choice
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and see what would have made this one
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correct or this one correct.
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How could the question have been worded
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differently?
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And so that, I would then go.
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I use a program called RimNote.
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It's a free program.
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Make some flashcards based on that.
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And from one question, you can get four,
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five,
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six different flashcards just based off of
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different points.
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Like, I didn't know that.
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I didn't know that.
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So you're picking up all these different
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things.
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And then,
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set time aside and you look at those
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flashcards.
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And you can gather your context and the
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answers from the book,
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but I am not just going through and
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reading page to page.
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I never read the entire book front to
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back.
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It wasn't anything like that.
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It was much more, I guess,
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strategic in that way.
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And then once you go through your practice
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exams and stuff like that,
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and you're going through,
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you're figuring out why you got questions
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wrong.
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You're not only building a good foundation
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of knowledge because you know,
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you want that, but on the board,
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you're not going to be able to answer
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every single question, right?
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Just based off of this.
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Oh yeah, I know that, you know,
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I know this and this and this,
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you won't be able to do that because
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there's so much content.
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So then you start building, um,
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test taking strategies.
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Like how do I know, you know,
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what the, what do they call it?
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It's like the question that might be
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right, but it's like a total like.
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I know what you're talking about,
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but I can't think of what.
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Because it's usually two answer choices.
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It's like between two.
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Like two of them are totally like random
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and weird and then two of them.
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So it narrows down your answer choices and
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it gives you a better chance at getting
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the answer correct.
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improves your odds, if that makes sense.
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Because again, going back,
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you can't know everything on the PT.
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So to a point,
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you have to improve your ability to test
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take.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think, you know,
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sometimes students feel like we were
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trying to trick them.
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And that's not the case.
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But it's trying to boil down, like,
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what is the rightest answer?
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What is the most appropriate?
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So when you see a question that has
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those two answers, that you're like,
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they're both right.
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But which one is the most appropriate for
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that particular?
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So you do have to kind of narrow
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it down.
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And I can't think of what you're talking
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about.
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I know what you're talking about,
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but I can't think of what it's called.
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I'm looking through.
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It's funny you bring up, you know,
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Most appropriate?
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But instructors trying to trick students
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because we had someone in our cohort who
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on every single exam, you know,
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MSK instructor, coolest guy ever.
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And he'd usually give you a very
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straightforward question,
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but it would have some sort of twist.
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Yeah.
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Some sort of thing that would throw you
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off.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And every time this, this, this other guy,
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the student would get,
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we'd get out of the test taking room
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or whatever.
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And he'd be like,
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he tried to trick me,
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but I saw it.
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And then he ended up getting that one
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wrong.
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Cause it was totally just a
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straightforward question.
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One answer.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's so funny how we can get in
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our heads.
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We really can just get in our heads
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about this stuff.
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I always tell students whenever I'm giving
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any kind of test quiz or whatever,
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and I always say, listen,
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I'm not trying to trick you.
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I am not smart enough.
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to trick you like,
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I want the right answer as much as
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you want.
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Because guess what,
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I have to grade all of it.
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So like, I'm certainly not trying to like,
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throw anybody for some kind of a loop.
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But yeah, typically,
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you just kind of have to go for
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like, what makes the most sense?
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Like what is straightforward answer?
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Yeah.
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And the boards?
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I mean, they are trying to,
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they obviously want people
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they're taking the exam to be good
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clinicians, but it's more,
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it's more about safety and not necessarily
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how much you just know about everything.
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Um,
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cause the board is a safety exam more
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so than it is a, um, you know,
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if you're taking your OCS, like how,
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how much do you know about the brachial
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plexus and all this other stuff?
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So that's another thing to think about.
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The board wants safety and it wants to
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protect the public.
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It's not talking about he's very niche.
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subjects.
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I've opened up the book and it's not,
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I can't think of the one popping in
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my head,
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but if you see like come to us
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by the end, huh?
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Yeah.
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If you're a student and you see just
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a completely absurd option or you see
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similar options, that's how you know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just rule it out.
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Just rule it out.
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So what other things did you do?
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So you've talked about your eighty twenty
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rule.
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You've talked about your study,
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your the way you studied and you took
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lots and lots of practice exams.
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What about things like active recall?
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And are there any other kind of like
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methods that you kind of embedded into
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your study habits?
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Yeah.
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So the active recall came in.
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you know,
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there's also another thing I'm trying to
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think of the concept, but anyways,
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the foundation starts with your ability to
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recall just pure definitions.
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What, what does this mean?
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And so that came into play with going
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back through incorrect answer choices.
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So I, again,
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going back to this program called rim
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note,
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it's just a program to make flashcards and
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all this stuff.
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So when I had my incorrect answer,
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I'd go through and let's say,
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The reason I got it wrong was I
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didn't know the norm for hemoglobin or
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whatever.
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And so I'd go through,
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and that is something that requires more
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active recall.
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It requires me just trying to remember a
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number, a concept, right?
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And so that's how that would be used.
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So I wouldn't just use it, you know,
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just active recall or just test taking it.
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or practice test,
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that's how they come together,
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is you get your active recall,
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your flashcards to lay the foundation and
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keep going.
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You can get quite a ways with just
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flashcards,
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but then this other top of the pyramid
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is practice exams and applying that
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information in the context of a patient
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scenario or a test question.
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Yeah, love it.
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You know,
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I always try to encourage students also,
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and this is obviously way before they take
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their NPTE,
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but when you walk out of class for
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the day, sit down, take five,
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ten minutes and try to recall as much
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as you can from class.
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Like,
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What did I learn?
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What concepts did we go over?
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What things made sense?
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What things didn't make sense?
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And just kind of jot it down and
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then come back and fill it out later.
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That can also be a technique for kind
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of recalling what you learned in class.
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Because we know from that learning pyramid
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Things that are verbally said to you,
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you're only going to remember about ten
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percent of that, right?
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You know,
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so you have to have that combination of
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looking at the material,
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hearing the material,
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applying the material.
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All of those things combined is what helps
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solidify that content and that
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information.
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And that's why it's so important for
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students to be able to have access to
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all of those different materials.
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parts of it and it makes it difficult
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sometimes if all you ever do is hear
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it or if all you ever do is
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read it and you don't have all of
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those components to make it work in your
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benefit.
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Which is also why you said you didn't
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sit down and just start reading the score
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builders book from front to back.
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Nobody's going to do that.
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But if you know what concept you need
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to review,
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and you can do the recall from class,
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you're like, okay, on this topic,
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I remember this, this, and this,
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and this one I'm not real sure of,
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then I can go back and I can
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reference and kind of plug in and connect
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the dots from there if you need to.
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And honestly,
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I don't think any of those study books
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are intended to be read from front to
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back.
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And there's many of them that are now
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very visual and less reading.
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And we've already mentioned that neither
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one of us are like,
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We were not receiving any kind of benefit
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from any study tool by the way.
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So like, but there's,
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there's many products out there now,
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and there's some that are more visual in
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the books that have very, you know,
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good colors and very good visual graphics
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and things like that,
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but have very few words compared to your
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score builders and your therapy ed who are
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very thick on words.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that one's
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superior to the other.
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there's a benefit to potentially having
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both or having access to both.
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So that's all I'm going to say about
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that.
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I think it's hard for,
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I think it's hard for PT and PTA
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programs to say, Oh,
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this is the one and only product that
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you should be using.
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Um, because everybody learns different.
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Everybody's brains different, right?
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Exactly.
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And I, I think there is, you know,
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maybe going into the types of learners,
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there is benefit in finding out what you
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learn from best,
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but most people it's visual.
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If you think about the amount of real
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estate and stuff in our brain and just
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that the body contributes to vision and
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the process that goes into that, I mean,
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we are very visual creatures.
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And so I think there are people that
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benefit from more tactile, hands-on,
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of course, psychomotorical stuff.
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That's great.
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And auditory and stuff like that.
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But visual, seeing the concept,
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seeing the muscle,
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how it originates and inserts,
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seeing
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the technique or whatever is very
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valuable.
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So yeah.
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And what I would do usually after class,
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I would spend a little bit of time
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in the morning before class prepping.
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So I'm not just walking into the lecture
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completely blind.
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Cause if,
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if you're in class and they're presenting
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over something completely new and that's
00:25:51.069 --> 00:25:52.009
the first time you're hearing it,
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you're not going to be able to answer
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any questions or,
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or pose any questions that are meaningful
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in the lecture.
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And so then after that,
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spend an hour after class just reviewing.
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And then usually I could kind of just
00:26:05.355 --> 00:26:06.154
do a slow burn.
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I didn't have to, you know,
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the day before the exam, just cram, cram,
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cram.
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I was very, I was very relaxed.
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So it was never a matter of dumping
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a whole bunch of time before the exam.
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I just was able to do incremental amounts
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of time.
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And that's something that I would,
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if you have the time,
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if you're a PTA student and you're taking
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this in October, you've got,
00:26:29.263 --> 00:26:29.763
you've got time.
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so i would start again with a slow
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burn and not this this cram cram you
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know a couple weeks before the the board
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or anything like that because it it also
00:26:39.712 --> 00:26:42.875
gives you going into forgetting curves you
00:26:42.895 --> 00:26:43.816
know if we want to get into that
00:26:43.895 --> 00:26:47.259
it's your brain forgets and it will it'll
00:26:47.298 --> 00:26:49.240
peak once you review the concept and then
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it will drop off and so we've got
00:26:51.422 --> 00:26:55.224
to as students let that drop off at
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a certain point and then let it come
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back then each time you read the concept
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that drop off becomes way less steep.
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And then it starts to kind of flatten
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out to where, of course,
00:27:04.768 --> 00:27:06.489
if you don't review the concept from five
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years from now,
00:27:07.269 --> 00:27:08.990
and it's something about like passive
00:27:09.009 --> 00:27:09.990
insufficiency, you're going to forget.
00:27:10.010 --> 00:27:10.911
You're going to forget.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But if, if you,
00:27:13.471 --> 00:27:15.653
if it's something like you're prepping for
00:27:15.692 --> 00:27:17.294
the board and you're reviewing these
00:27:17.314 --> 00:27:18.734
concepts and you're, you're getting,
00:27:18.755 --> 00:27:20.315
you're forgetting curves to flatten out a
00:27:20.335 --> 00:27:20.836
little bit better.
00:27:21.935 --> 00:27:22.655
That helps a bunch.
00:27:22.675 --> 00:27:25.577
But if you're just cramming, there's,
00:27:25.678 --> 00:27:27.198
there's no real strategy to it.
00:27:27.239 --> 00:27:28.298
Your curves are going to, it's,
00:27:29.166 --> 00:27:30.248
you know,
00:27:30.307 --> 00:27:32.269
it's going to be way less efficient.
00:27:32.409 --> 00:27:33.189
Yeah, definitely.
00:27:34.349 --> 00:27:34.769
And again,
00:27:35.250 --> 00:27:36.951
I feel like there's so many things that
00:27:36.971 --> 00:27:38.491
we could touch on with this topic,
00:27:38.531 --> 00:27:40.153
but have you read the book Learning That
00:27:40.192 --> 00:27:45.455
Last by Thomas Allemander?
00:27:45.816 --> 00:27:46.836
I might be saying that wrong.
00:27:46.916 --> 00:27:47.277
Thomas,
00:27:47.336 --> 00:27:49.817
forgive me if you're out there listening,
00:27:49.837 --> 00:27:50.699
which he's probably not,
00:27:50.739 --> 00:27:52.420
but he wrote a book.
00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.020
He's a PT and he teaches in a
00:27:55.381 --> 00:27:56.142
PT program,
00:27:56.162 --> 00:27:57.542
wrote a book called Learning That Last.
00:27:57.702 --> 00:27:57.803
And
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A lot of the concepts that you're talking
00:28:00.025 --> 00:28:00.705
about on here,
00:28:00.726 --> 00:28:02.067
which you probably didn't even know if
00:28:02.087 --> 00:28:03.148
you've never read his book,
00:28:03.588 --> 00:28:05.711
he specifically addresses a lot of these
00:28:05.751 --> 00:28:06.211
concepts.
00:28:06.251 --> 00:28:09.736
So I recommend that book to all students.
00:28:10.136 --> 00:28:10.897
It's not big.
00:28:11.057 --> 00:28:12.038
It's super thin.
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:13.540
You could read it in...
00:28:14.862 --> 00:28:16.022
If you really wanted to,
00:28:16.083 --> 00:28:18.003
you could get it done in an hour
00:28:18.105 --> 00:28:18.365
or two.
00:28:18.384 --> 00:28:19.625
Like it's a really small book,
00:28:20.086 --> 00:28:22.768
but it addresses these concepts that are
00:28:22.928 --> 00:28:23.508
very, very,
00:28:23.528 --> 00:28:24.808
these study concepts that are very,
00:28:24.848 --> 00:28:28.132
very applicable to allied health studying,
00:28:28.571 --> 00:28:30.393
because you're going to study different in
00:28:30.432 --> 00:28:32.375
a program like this and a PT and
00:28:32.394 --> 00:28:33.315
a PTA program,
00:28:33.694 --> 00:28:35.696
then you're going to study if you are
00:28:35.876 --> 00:28:38.018
getting your degree in English, right?
00:28:38.038 --> 00:28:38.318
You know,
00:28:38.358 --> 00:28:40.779
like these are very different kind of
00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:41.121
like,
00:28:41.881 --> 00:28:43.922
ways of learning that you would have to
00:28:44.382 --> 00:28:46.644
build a specific study repertoire.
00:28:47.403 --> 00:28:48.744
So if anybody's out there,
00:28:49.005 --> 00:28:50.465
I don't get anything from his book.
00:28:50.865 --> 00:28:52.807
I just find it to be an extremely
00:28:52.846 --> 00:28:53.467
helpful book.
00:28:54.007 --> 00:28:57.009
And so I highly recommend it to anybody
00:28:57.048 --> 00:28:57.429
listening.
00:28:57.588 --> 00:28:58.910
And it's so weird that because like,
00:28:58.950 --> 00:28:59.750
as you're talking, I'm like,
00:28:59.890 --> 00:29:01.191
all of these concepts are like some of
00:29:01.211 --> 00:29:02.332
the things that he talks about.
00:29:02.352 --> 00:29:07.013
So you're like his protege.
00:29:07.054 --> 00:29:08.714
The one that I read,
00:29:08.894 --> 00:29:10.135
the learning book I read,
00:29:10.155 --> 00:29:10.776
this was back
00:29:12.405 --> 00:29:14.048
Um,
00:29:14.269 --> 00:29:15.230
it would have been the year that I
00:29:15.250 --> 00:29:16.332
was going into the PTA program.
00:29:16.352 --> 00:29:19.196
It's called making it stick by C Brown.
00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:21.961
That's my learning Bible.
00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:23.503
That's where I referenced a lot of that
00:29:23.544 --> 00:29:24.365
stuff.
00:29:24.625 --> 00:29:24.826
Um,
00:29:25.538 --> 00:29:27.499
But I'll have to, learning that lasts.
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:28.259
Learning that lasts.
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:29.000
Yeah, check it out.
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:29.340
I mean,
00:29:29.881 --> 00:29:31.402
you have a little time before school
00:29:31.422 --> 00:29:32.001
starts.
00:29:32.021 --> 00:29:32.623
Yeah.
00:29:34.324 --> 00:29:35.865
Before school restarts, right?
00:29:35.904 --> 00:29:36.826
Like you've still been.
00:29:36.846 --> 00:29:37.625
Exactly.
00:29:37.645 --> 00:29:38.767
Yeah, you've still been in school.
00:29:38.826 --> 00:29:43.650
So now you currently are a PTA.
00:29:43.789 --> 00:29:46.392
You're working in a clinic.
00:29:48.953 --> 00:29:49.753
How did...
00:29:51.916 --> 00:29:53.237
how do you compare your,
00:29:53.356 --> 00:29:56.738
your study strategy to like your clinical
00:29:56.778 --> 00:29:57.238
strategy?
00:29:57.278 --> 00:29:59.818
Because you kind of made some like cross
00:29:59.878 --> 00:30:02.099
bridges here towards the,
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:02.960
with the both of them.
00:30:03.019 --> 00:30:03.420
So like,
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:05.381
can you give me an example of how
00:30:05.461 --> 00:30:06.820
some of the things that you've learned
00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:08.480
about how you study best and how you
00:30:08.560 --> 00:30:10.701
recall information has been helpful to you
00:30:10.721 --> 00:30:11.602
in the clinical setting?
00:30:11.622 --> 00:30:12.883
Yeah.
00:30:12.942 --> 00:30:14.282
So, um,
00:30:15.809 --> 00:30:17.230
this this tool i keep referencing remnote
00:30:17.310 --> 00:30:19.432
is something that i have on my work
00:30:19.451 --> 00:30:21.092
computer it's not something i download
00:30:21.112 --> 00:30:22.792
it's just in a web browser you can
00:30:22.813 --> 00:30:24.794
pull it up that will sync all of
00:30:24.814 --> 00:30:27.535
your stuff but what i would do is
00:30:27.575 --> 00:30:30.195
if i'm chart reviewing of course no uh
00:30:30.276 --> 00:30:33.376
hipaa type identifiers would be used in my
00:30:33.537 --> 00:30:35.057
in my notes and remnote but i would
00:30:36.178 --> 00:30:38.078
look through and if there was something
00:30:38.439 --> 00:30:41.279
that caught my attention it's like this
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:43.721
patient has a specific range of motion has
00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:45.001
this special test that's positive
00:30:46.098 --> 00:30:49.520
um, you know, what is, what,
00:30:49.601 --> 00:30:51.041
what could be the thing that's causing it?
00:30:52.021 --> 00:30:53.282
And so usually it's pretty
00:30:53.303 --> 00:30:54.784
straightforward, but sometimes I'd see,
00:30:54.884 --> 00:30:56.625
you know, I do go to different clinics.
00:30:57.404 --> 00:30:58.806
Sometimes I'd see a special test that I'm
00:30:58.846 --> 00:31:01.606
like, I have no idea what that is.
00:31:01.907 --> 00:31:02.307
So that's,
00:31:02.387 --> 00:31:04.409
that's when I was a great example when
00:31:04.489 --> 00:31:07.029
I would go and, um, you know,
00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:08.371
I've got different folders for the
00:31:08.391 --> 00:31:10.211
shoulder, the knee, the hip, the spine,
00:31:10.251 --> 00:31:12.113
and I go in and if it's assessing,
00:31:12.133 --> 00:31:12.173
um,
00:31:13.413 --> 00:31:16.515
miniscule whatever I'd go in I would do
00:31:16.535 --> 00:31:18.256
my research on the special test and then
00:31:18.296 --> 00:31:19.675
I'd have that just for later so I
00:31:19.695 --> 00:31:21.856
know I know I know the clinical
00:31:21.896 --> 00:31:23.438
significance of that to this patient I
00:31:23.458 --> 00:31:28.460
know that okay this means whatever X and
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.961
now I have this in my repertoire so
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:32.402
if I need to reference that again I
00:31:32.422 --> 00:31:32.981
can type in
00:31:34.962 --> 00:31:37.243
Epley's whatever McMurray's.
00:31:37.344 --> 00:31:38.304
And then I know, okay,
00:31:38.324 --> 00:31:38.983
that's what that means.
00:31:39.523 --> 00:31:40.663
Those are ones that should be very
00:31:40.723 --> 00:31:41.585
obvious, but you know, that's,
00:31:41.605 --> 00:31:42.325
that's an example.
00:31:42.345 --> 00:31:42.585
Of course.
00:31:42.605 --> 00:31:42.684
Yeah.
00:31:43.444 --> 00:31:44.464
Um,
00:31:44.585 --> 00:31:46.546
another one would be like post-op
00:31:46.605 --> 00:31:47.246
protocols.
00:31:47.705 --> 00:31:49.405
So for the most part with a rotator
00:31:49.425 --> 00:31:50.826
cuff, those are pretty straightforward.
00:31:51.666 --> 00:31:52.106
Um, you're,
00:31:52.287 --> 00:31:53.987
you're following phases of tissue healing
00:31:54.887 --> 00:31:56.647
and you're floating those tissues
00:31:56.667 --> 00:31:58.107
appropriately at that phase.
00:31:58.667 --> 00:32:00.848
But sometimes it would be, um,
00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:03.039
There was one,
00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:05.622
it's called like a ladder J ladder jet
00:32:06.061 --> 00:32:06.603
procedure,
00:32:07.583 --> 00:32:08.763
something I'd never heard of before.
00:32:08.903 --> 00:32:10.705
And so that's when I go in,
00:32:10.746 --> 00:32:13.567
I make a new little, you know,
00:32:13.646 --> 00:32:15.588
undermine surgical procedures, whatever.
00:32:15.648 --> 00:32:17.630
I put that in and put in what
00:32:17.690 --> 00:32:19.050
exactly that involves,
00:32:19.090 --> 00:32:20.751
what tissues are involved so that I could
00:32:20.791 --> 00:32:21.873
better explain that to the patient.
00:32:22.634 --> 00:32:23.493
So if they had a question like,
00:32:23.534 --> 00:32:25.414
so what did like, why does this hurt?
00:32:25.955 --> 00:32:27.116
Why is this painful for me?
00:32:27.136 --> 00:32:29.077
I was like, well, they went in, they,
00:32:29.778 --> 00:32:30.739
I think they go in, they were like,
00:32:31.896 --> 00:32:33.518
move the coracoid process.
00:32:33.637 --> 00:32:35.238
It's for shoulder subluxation,
00:32:35.699 --> 00:32:36.338
hypermobility.
00:32:36.398 --> 00:32:38.220
And so they go in and they purposely
00:32:38.259 --> 00:32:39.440
limit the shoulder mobility.
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:41.080
So then I'm able to better explain that
00:32:41.101 --> 00:32:41.580
to the patient.
00:32:41.661 --> 00:32:42.840
I have a better background.
00:32:44.501 --> 00:32:45.342
And so I do that.
00:32:45.402 --> 00:32:47.103
I rinse and repeat that for any sort
00:32:47.143 --> 00:32:48.483
of things that I'm just not aware of.
00:32:48.763 --> 00:32:49.923
And I think as a clinician,
00:32:51.944 --> 00:32:53.286
that really gives you a better,
00:32:55.987 --> 00:32:57.527
it improves your ability to explain things
00:32:57.547 --> 00:32:58.067
to the patient.
00:32:58.086 --> 00:32:59.448
Of course, you're not reciting
00:33:00.369 --> 00:33:01.671
the exact procedure that's going on,
00:33:01.691 --> 00:33:03.731
but if they have questions and like,
00:33:03.771 --> 00:33:04.633
why is this painful?
00:33:04.972 --> 00:33:06.334
I, why can I not do this?
00:33:06.973 --> 00:33:08.434
When should I be healed?
00:33:08.454 --> 00:33:09.776
You know, we don't have a magic ball,
00:33:09.836 --> 00:33:10.715
but it can kind of give you a
00:33:10.736 --> 00:33:13.198
better idea of when they should be, uh,
00:33:13.218 --> 00:33:13.258
um,
00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:15.740
getting to the point where you can do
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:17.180
resistance, active range of motion,
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:17.681
all this stuff,
00:33:18.320 --> 00:33:20.422
because of course we can't remember all of
00:33:20.442 --> 00:33:22.324
the post-op protocols and just know every
00:33:22.364 --> 00:33:22.943
single procedure.
00:33:24.125 --> 00:33:24.265
Um,
00:33:24.780 --> 00:33:26.403
So it's good to do your homework in
00:33:26.462 --> 00:33:28.664
that way, to be a better patient educator,
00:33:29.105 --> 00:33:30.747
and then to be able to better treat
00:33:31.127 --> 00:33:33.509
whatever surgery it is,
00:33:33.569 --> 00:33:34.570
or even if it's not a surgery,
00:33:35.551 --> 00:33:36.393
whatever condition it is.
00:33:37.778 --> 00:33:37.999
Yeah.
00:33:38.078 --> 00:33:39.861
And I was going to actually ask you
00:33:39.941 --> 00:33:43.204
what you chose to do as a treating
00:33:43.244 --> 00:33:44.807
clinician now when like you're not being
00:33:44.866 --> 00:33:47.068
held and that you are being held
00:33:47.209 --> 00:33:48.451
accountable for your learning,
00:33:48.550 --> 00:33:52.115
but you're not having somebody like as a
00:33:52.174 --> 00:33:52.915
student, you know,
00:33:52.955 --> 00:33:54.857
read these chapters or do these things
00:33:54.938 --> 00:33:56.338
ahead of class and things like that.
00:33:56.419 --> 00:33:56.759
So like,
00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:58.359
how you keep yourself accountable.
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:00.260
But it sounds like you already have that
00:34:00.820 --> 00:34:03.862
system kind of in process and embedded
00:34:03.902 --> 00:34:07.742
where you just you you recognize your gaps
00:34:07.782 --> 00:34:10.364
in your knowledge or what you're lacking
00:34:10.543 --> 00:34:12.065
and then you're filling in the blanks and
00:34:12.085 --> 00:34:13.485
then you kind of like build on that,
00:34:13.545 --> 00:34:13.864
right?
00:34:13.885 --> 00:34:14.186
You know,
00:34:14.226 --> 00:34:16.846
like you're almost keeping yourself like a
00:34:16.885 --> 00:34:19.126
toolbox or a data bank.
00:34:19.146 --> 00:34:20.206
That was very fortunate.
00:34:20.248 --> 00:34:24.409
My very last clinical rotation at a great
00:34:24.449 --> 00:34:24.789
CI
00:34:25.809 --> 00:34:28.612
And he was very into continuous learning,
00:34:29.173 --> 00:34:29.954
which everyone should be.
00:34:30.355 --> 00:34:33.679
But it's not common that you find a
00:34:34.260 --> 00:34:34.621
clinician,
00:34:34.681 --> 00:34:37.925
especially he's been treating for a long
00:34:37.965 --> 00:34:38.365
time.
00:34:38.766 --> 00:34:40.527
You see someone who's still trying to
00:34:40.568 --> 00:34:42.311
learn because there's always stuff to
00:34:42.331 --> 00:34:42.510
learn.
00:34:42.550 --> 00:34:43.952
But anyways, he always encouraged me.
00:34:45.311 --> 00:34:45.690
um,
00:34:45.731 --> 00:34:48.652
to go home after my seven to five
00:34:48.672 --> 00:34:49.532
clinical rotation.
00:34:49.612 --> 00:34:51.472
When you're tired.
00:34:51.492 --> 00:34:52.952
Yeah, exactly.
00:34:53.052 --> 00:34:55.574
Which is, you know, tough, but you know,
00:34:55.614 --> 00:34:58.034
go home and do your, your homework,
00:34:58.494 --> 00:34:59.514
refresh on things.
00:34:59.994 --> 00:35:01.655
Um, and it was very specific.
00:35:01.695 --> 00:35:02.376
It wasn't just,
00:35:02.596 --> 00:35:05.657
I'm going to pick this to go study.
00:35:06.097 --> 00:35:07.597
And it's just totally random.
00:35:08.137 --> 00:35:08.577
It's like,
00:35:08.858 --> 00:35:09.878
what am I seeing a lot of?
00:35:09.998 --> 00:35:11.097
What am I seeing a lot of?
00:35:11.157 --> 00:35:12.599
And I'm uncomfortable treating.
00:35:12.918 --> 00:35:13.298
How can I,
00:35:14.086 --> 00:35:14.626
you know,
00:35:14.646 --> 00:35:16.088
build a knowledge base that would help me
00:35:16.628 --> 00:35:17.507
treat that patient better.
00:35:17.887 --> 00:35:18.528
And so that,
00:35:18.568 --> 00:35:19.929
that definitely helped a lot setting that
00:35:19.989 --> 00:35:21.110
up for my practice.
00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:22.630
Cause it's like, okay,
00:35:22.650 --> 00:35:24.271
that helped a ton being in that rotation,
00:35:24.431 --> 00:35:27.831
constantly being, um, you know,
00:35:27.871 --> 00:35:28.552
refreshed on things.
00:35:28.592 --> 00:35:30.092
And by the way, the caveat,
00:35:30.273 --> 00:35:31.653
it wasn't like I was spending hours and
00:35:31.693 --> 00:35:35.474
hours after the rotation and even now in
00:35:35.494 --> 00:35:37.315
the clinic, I'm not spending hours.
00:35:37.356 --> 00:35:39.237
It's like, I'll spend.
00:35:39.757 --> 00:35:40.916
Ten, twenty,
00:35:40.936 --> 00:35:42.737
thirty minutes looking at the thing.
00:35:43.856 --> 00:35:44.496
Once I've looked at it,
00:35:44.617 --> 00:35:45.717
I'll be in the clinic and I'll kind
00:35:45.757 --> 00:35:47.378
of pull up RemNote and it's flashcards.
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.579
So you're going through and you're
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:50.079
viewing, it's active recall.
00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:51.960
We're getting forgetting curves.
00:35:52.001 --> 00:35:54.942
So now I'm just trying to put all
00:35:54.981 --> 00:35:59.083
these tools together and try and,
00:36:00.664 --> 00:36:00.905
you know,
00:36:02.385 --> 00:36:03.606
what am I trying to get there?
00:36:05.005 --> 00:36:09.228
And trying to be just more well-rounded.
00:36:09.248 --> 00:36:09.648
Like you said,
00:36:09.688 --> 00:36:10.829
filling in those knowledge gaps.
00:36:11.893 --> 00:36:12.074
Yeah,
00:36:12.153 --> 00:36:14.536
and it sounds like the more that you're
00:36:14.637 --> 00:36:17.239
trying to basically eliminate those
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:19.041
learning drop-offs or those knowledge
00:36:19.061 --> 00:36:19.702
drop-offs, right?
00:36:20.043 --> 00:36:21.784
So like the more you kind of,
00:36:23.173 --> 00:36:25.014
keep touching on a specific subject you're
00:36:25.094 --> 00:36:27.936
you're likely to keep that that high on
00:36:27.976 --> 00:36:30.217
that instead of the drop-off right you
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:31.599
know so the drop-off should become less
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:33.820
and less each time so then you should
00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:36.041
eventually kind of create that base base
00:36:36.081 --> 00:36:38.923
knowledge um that stays a little bit
00:36:38.963 --> 00:36:41.005
better it's become embedded into your
00:36:41.045 --> 00:36:42.766
brain it's not necessarily something you
00:36:42.806 --> 00:36:44.568
have to sit there and and dig back
00:36:44.648 --> 00:36:46.869
up every single time yeah it becomes a
00:36:46.969 --> 00:36:49.510
little more natural yeah so what has
00:36:50.891 --> 00:36:52.672
What has being an SPT,
00:36:52.851 --> 00:36:54.193
a student physical therapist,
00:36:54.913 --> 00:36:58.795
taught you as a treating PTA and vice
00:36:58.835 --> 00:36:59.436
versa?
00:37:00.255 --> 00:37:02.737
How does that work when you're a PTA
00:37:02.777 --> 00:37:03.378
that's treating,
00:37:03.418 --> 00:37:04.918
but you're also a student PT?
00:37:05.418 --> 00:37:07.139
What are those two things teaching you
00:37:07.179 --> 00:37:08.860
about each other?
00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:11.181
So that's a great question because that
00:37:11.222 --> 00:37:12.722
was the coolest thing.
00:37:13.003 --> 00:37:15.525
That's what I was most excited for going
00:37:15.545 --> 00:37:16.844
into the first semester of PT school
00:37:16.885 --> 00:37:18.005
because it's just gross anatomy.
00:37:18.992 --> 00:37:21.494
So we have that and a professional issues
00:37:21.534 --> 00:37:25.215
type course where you're reviewing state
00:37:25.255 --> 00:37:26.836
guidelines, practice act, all that stuff,
00:37:26.956 --> 00:37:27.617
which was also good.
00:37:28.157 --> 00:37:31.679
But being able to go into class and
00:37:31.759 --> 00:37:35.201
see a cadaver and being able to cut
00:37:35.240 --> 00:37:36.882
it open and look at all these structures,
00:37:37.963 --> 00:37:39.603
it really makes you think about these
00:37:39.643 --> 00:37:40.963
different manual techniques that you're
00:37:41.043 --> 00:37:41.304
using.
00:37:42.164 --> 00:37:43.105
How effective are they really?
00:37:44.106 --> 00:37:45.425
That's a different can of worms.
00:37:47.242 --> 00:37:48.463
and then thinking about to have a
00:37:48.483 --> 00:37:50.824
different episode on that yeah and
00:37:50.864 --> 00:37:53.045
thinking about like what um what is
00:37:53.164 --> 00:37:54.706
actually happening when you're doing that
00:37:54.726 --> 00:37:59.788
anyways but just from pt from the spt
00:37:59.827 --> 00:38:03.090
perspective the pta it is awesome really
00:38:03.110 --> 00:38:05.831
building a great anatomy foundation like
00:38:05.851 --> 00:38:08.012
i'm able to go and see how the
00:38:08.052 --> 00:38:09.313
brachial plexus runs through the upper
00:38:09.333 --> 00:38:11.494
quarter i'm able to see the the
00:38:11.574 --> 00:38:15.516
pre-rotator muscles our suboccipitals um
00:38:16.106 --> 00:38:17.987
getting into the thigh, the foot,
00:38:18.027 --> 00:38:18.288
all these,
00:38:18.307 --> 00:38:21.108
and it helps with your palpation skills,
00:38:21.148 --> 00:38:24.050
all this different stuff with, um,
00:38:24.990 --> 00:38:26.391
you know, knowing your neurovasculature,
00:38:26.431 --> 00:38:26.971
all that things,
00:38:26.990 --> 00:38:28.632
because I want to eventually go and dry
00:38:28.652 --> 00:38:29.873
needle on how to do that.
00:38:29.893 --> 00:38:31.793
So that's a great foundation there.
00:38:32.634 --> 00:38:36.775
And then from PTA to SPT, you know,
00:38:36.795 --> 00:38:37.735
since I'm a clinician,
00:38:38.076 --> 00:38:40.376
I know how this stuff will be relevant
00:38:40.456 --> 00:38:40.976
in the clinic.
00:38:42.217 --> 00:38:45.778
Um, so, you know, knowing again,
00:38:46.034 --> 00:38:47.394
of sticking with upper quarter and
00:38:47.414 --> 00:38:50.556
thoracic outlet like okay i can see how
00:38:50.735 --> 00:38:53.135
these the scalenes the pec minor the first
00:38:53.195 --> 00:38:56.036
rib clavicle how that all could be sites
00:38:56.137 --> 00:38:58.677
of entrapment irritation because i'm i can
00:38:58.737 --> 00:39:00.077
see it i'm like i'm looking at i'm
00:39:00.097 --> 00:39:02.338
moving it around it's it's just yeah it
00:39:02.358 --> 00:39:04.818
goes back and forth because you can think
00:39:04.838 --> 00:39:06.838
about why it's relevant and then you can
00:39:06.938 --> 00:39:08.978
see it and then reapply it and have
00:39:08.998 --> 00:39:12.300
a better understanding as a clinician yeah
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:13.880
i wish gross anatomy was something that we
00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:14.940
could just take as a ceu it's
00:39:15.333 --> 00:39:16.552
I don't know how that would work,
00:39:16.572 --> 00:39:17.554
but it would be incredible.
00:39:17.974 --> 00:39:18.914
Yeah.
00:39:19.014 --> 00:39:19.193
Yeah.
00:39:19.293 --> 00:39:19.494
I mean,
00:39:19.634 --> 00:39:22.715
I remember my first semester as a PTA
00:39:22.775 --> 00:39:23.175
student,
00:39:23.835 --> 00:39:26.215
I was an aid in a PT clinic.
00:39:26.255 --> 00:39:27.597
So to me,
00:39:27.637 --> 00:39:29.416
like the only thing I really ever knew
00:39:29.456 --> 00:39:31.538
was outpatient physical therapy.
00:39:31.577 --> 00:39:32.358
And I was like, well,
00:39:32.378 --> 00:39:33.659
this is what I'm going to do for
00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:34.679
the rest of my life.
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:35.018
You know,
00:39:35.059 --> 00:39:36.519
like I'm going to work in outpatient.
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.621
And that first semester was all basic
00:39:39.661 --> 00:39:40.960
patient skills.
00:39:41.621 --> 00:39:43.043
It was like, you know,
00:39:43.083 --> 00:39:45.824
your vital signs and your transfers and
00:39:45.905 --> 00:39:47.706
like your gait training and a bunch of
00:39:47.726 --> 00:39:49.628
stuff that I didn't really ever see
00:39:49.668 --> 00:39:50.389
firsthand.
00:39:50.509 --> 00:39:51.750
Even though I was working at a PT
00:39:51.769 --> 00:39:52.190
clinic,
00:39:52.630 --> 00:39:55.012
I was seeing much more high level
00:39:55.052 --> 00:39:57.393
patients, you know, in real time.
00:39:57.713 --> 00:39:58.855
So like to me, I was like,
00:39:59.076 --> 00:40:00.155
what do we have to learn all this
00:40:00.175 --> 00:40:00.356
stuff for?
00:40:00.376 --> 00:40:00.556
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:00.577 --> 00:40:01.197
And of course, you know, like.
00:40:03.539 --> 00:40:03.878
Yeah, I know.
00:40:03.898 --> 00:40:04.079
I'm like,
00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:05.579
why are we going through all of this?
00:40:05.619 --> 00:40:06.960
You know, and of course, here I am,
00:40:08.001 --> 00:40:09.483
you know, twenty some years later,
00:40:09.543 --> 00:40:10.722
I've worked in acute care.
00:40:10.742 --> 00:40:12.644
I continue to work in skilled nursing and
00:40:12.664 --> 00:40:13.605
I'm like, oh, yeah,
00:40:13.625 --> 00:40:15.286
like it's all it's all applicable.
00:40:15.385 --> 00:40:15.585
Yeah.
00:40:15.706 --> 00:40:17.547
But like that first semester, I was like,
00:40:17.748 --> 00:40:20.688
I don't understand why we're doing all of
00:40:20.710 --> 00:40:20.949
this.
00:40:20.969 --> 00:40:21.170
Yeah, no,
00:40:21.190 --> 00:40:23.030
it's definitely like if you've only been
00:40:23.050 --> 00:40:25.032
an outpatient as an aide or whatever,
00:40:25.052 --> 00:40:26.172
we had a few people like that.
00:40:26.193 --> 00:40:26.492
They were like.
00:40:26.512 --> 00:40:28.713
Yeah, you mean this is what?
00:40:29.094 --> 00:40:31.596
Yeah, exactly.
00:40:31.615 --> 00:40:32.115
Yeah.
00:40:32.195 --> 00:40:32.817
It's also cool.
00:40:34.047 --> 00:40:34.226
you know,
00:40:34.266 --> 00:40:35.666
just not from a musculoskeletal
00:40:35.686 --> 00:40:36.146
standpoint,
00:40:36.166 --> 00:40:37.708
but also being able to look at your
00:40:38.847 --> 00:40:39.688
thoracic cavity,
00:40:40.208 --> 00:40:41.648
peritoneum and all this stuff.
00:40:41.788 --> 00:40:43.608
And when you go into, you know, acute,
00:40:45.509 --> 00:40:47.889
being able to better explain someone who's
00:40:48.190 --> 00:40:48.690
status post,
00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:50.550
whatever sort of abdominal surgery,
00:40:50.590 --> 00:40:50.750
you know,
00:40:50.769 --> 00:40:52.409
we see a ton of those here in
00:40:52.670 --> 00:40:53.590
the Northeast Arkansas.
00:40:54.291 --> 00:40:56.210
And so it's just, again,
00:40:56.271 --> 00:40:57.271
it just goes back and forth.
00:40:57.331 --> 00:41:00.632
You improve your fundamental A&P and then
00:41:00.692 --> 00:41:01.791
you're applying it
00:41:02.141 --> 00:41:03.001
It just goes back and forth.
00:41:03.021 --> 00:41:04.643
It's really cool.
00:41:04.722 --> 00:41:05.664
Yeah, absolutely.
00:41:06.284 --> 00:41:07.565
So tell me a little bit about this
00:41:07.605 --> 00:41:09.766
setup because you went to PTA school
00:41:10.246 --> 00:41:12.027
exactly where you're going to PT school.
00:41:12.067 --> 00:41:15.347
So tell me about the program at Arkansas
00:41:15.407 --> 00:41:18.088
State and how this worked out so
00:41:18.128 --> 00:41:18.949
wonderfully for you.
00:41:19.769 --> 00:41:19.929
Yeah,
00:41:19.949 --> 00:41:21.731
they've got a few really cool things going
00:41:21.831 --> 00:41:22.030
on.
00:41:22.652 --> 00:41:24.813
One of which is called their Professional
00:41:24.833 --> 00:41:28.653
Track Health Studies program.
00:41:28.673 --> 00:41:30.014
So to give some background,
00:41:30.434 --> 00:41:31.195
going into college,
00:41:31.295 --> 00:41:32.036
I wanted to do like
00:41:32.621 --> 00:41:33.461
computer science,
00:41:33.862 --> 00:41:35.943
something just totally not tangential to
00:41:36.402 --> 00:41:37.003
physical therapy.
00:41:37.023 --> 00:41:40.822
I ended up having some life experiences
00:41:40.842 --> 00:41:43.643
with my family and kind of reflected on
00:41:43.664 --> 00:41:44.804
that and was like, okay,
00:41:44.824 --> 00:41:45.643
this is something I want to do.
00:41:47.063 --> 00:41:47.385
Anyways,
00:41:47.684 --> 00:41:50.704
I was playing a gig in downtown Jonesboro,
00:41:50.744 --> 00:41:53.106
Arkansas, and I get off stage.
00:41:53.326 --> 00:41:54.806
A gig on your drums?
00:41:54.885 --> 00:41:57.246
On the drums, yeah.
00:41:57.266 --> 00:41:58.987
I get down off stage and the director
00:41:59.306 --> 00:42:00.586
of the PTA program,
00:42:00.746 --> 00:42:01.567
who I had no idea was
00:42:02.090 --> 00:42:02.889
who that was at the time,
00:42:02.949 --> 00:42:05.130
came up to me and was talking about
00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:06.911
how she loved the facial expressions I was
00:42:06.971 --> 00:42:08.251
making and how I was playing and all
00:42:08.271 --> 00:42:08.632
that stuff.
00:42:08.672 --> 00:42:09.751
And I was like, thank you, thank you.
00:42:10.612 --> 00:42:11.012
And she was like,
00:42:11.032 --> 00:42:13.012
are you still in high school or going
00:42:13.032 --> 00:42:13.532
to college?
00:42:13.552 --> 00:42:14.653
And I would explain, oh,
00:42:14.673 --> 00:42:15.514
I'm going to college.
00:42:15.534 --> 00:42:16.833
I'm kind of thinking about doing physical
00:42:16.873 --> 00:42:17.054
therapy.
00:42:17.074 --> 00:42:19.315
She's like, great, okay.
00:42:19.574 --> 00:42:20.934
And so she kind of lured me in.
00:42:22.076 --> 00:42:24.657
And she had mentioned this health studies
00:42:24.717 --> 00:42:25.217
PTA thing.
00:42:25.257 --> 00:42:26.856
So to make a long story short,
00:42:27.117 --> 00:42:29.538
you do your first year
00:42:30.014 --> 00:42:31.454
which is just getting your prerequisites
00:42:31.474 --> 00:42:32.476
for the PTA program.
00:42:32.675 --> 00:42:38.260
So A&P, physics, English, all that stuff.
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:40.461
You go and do one year of the
00:42:40.501 --> 00:42:41.382
PTA program,
00:42:42.384 --> 00:42:43.625
and then you can either do it in
00:42:45.206 --> 00:42:46.766
one or two years that you're bachelors.
00:42:47.347 --> 00:42:48.628
You do a health studies program,
00:42:48.648 --> 00:42:51.271
so you're learning about quality
00:42:51.291 --> 00:42:52.851
improvement in health care,
00:42:53.052 --> 00:42:54.512
a lot of the administrative side of
00:42:54.793 --> 00:42:56.054
things, which is great if you want to.
00:42:56.614 --> 00:42:58.096
Instead of being a PT,
00:42:58.115 --> 00:42:59.396
you go and do admin.
00:43:00.202 --> 00:43:01.063
Anyway, so I did that in one year.
00:43:01.583 --> 00:43:02.704
So my undergrad was three years.
00:43:02.804 --> 00:43:04.644
And then in that process,
00:43:05.746 --> 00:43:06.826
I was able to work.
00:43:07.547 --> 00:43:09.367
I was doing full-time online courses.
00:43:09.407 --> 00:43:10.007
That's another thing.
00:43:10.027 --> 00:43:10.608
It was online.
00:43:10.628 --> 00:43:12.889
So I was able to be full-time as
00:43:12.909 --> 00:43:14.210
a PTA and then come home and do
00:43:14.251 --> 00:43:14.831
my classes.
00:43:15.532 --> 00:43:16.632
And then I was prepping for the GRE.
00:43:17.532 --> 00:43:21.135
And a year after graduating, PTA,
00:43:21.876 --> 00:43:22.777
applied to PT.
00:43:23.855 --> 00:43:24.215
uh,
00:43:24.255 --> 00:43:26.036
got in and it's pretty seamless the way
00:43:26.056 --> 00:43:27.378
it works at a state because you see
00:43:27.398 --> 00:43:28.460
a lot of the same faculty,
00:43:28.699 --> 00:43:29.721
even if you didn't have them.
00:43:30.021 --> 00:43:31.382
So a lot of the PT professors,
00:43:31.422 --> 00:43:32.244
of course I didn't have,
00:43:32.844 --> 00:43:35.146
but I'd run into them through the halls
00:43:35.206 --> 00:43:36.108
or we had again,
00:43:36.128 --> 00:43:38.710
that collaboration between PTA PT had seen
00:43:38.730 --> 00:43:38.851
them.
00:43:38.891 --> 00:43:40.512
And so it's, it's been,
00:43:40.532 --> 00:43:42.153
it's been really seamless and it's been
00:43:42.193 --> 00:43:43.755
really cool, uh,
00:43:44.576 --> 00:43:46.617
getting all that done at one university.
00:43:47.018 --> 00:43:47.119
So.
00:43:48.139 --> 00:43:48.780
Now,
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:51.121
did you guys have collaboration as PT,
00:43:51.181 --> 00:43:52.163
PTA students?
00:43:52.362 --> 00:43:54.184
Did you ever have activities or events
00:43:54.224 --> 00:43:56.204
where you were able to work together or
00:43:56.264 --> 00:43:57.085
anything like that?
00:43:58.286 --> 00:43:59.507
We're doing more of that now.
00:43:59.967 --> 00:44:02.349
We have what's called the Parkinson's Boot
00:44:02.389 --> 00:44:02.568
Camp.
00:44:03.028 --> 00:44:05.951
And so we'll invite Parkinson's patients
00:44:06.572 --> 00:44:07.251
around the community.
00:44:07.771 --> 00:44:10.054
It's hosted by a neuro-patient clinic.
00:44:10.094 --> 00:44:11.014
I can't recall their name.
00:44:11.514 --> 00:44:11.574
Hmm.
00:44:12.894 --> 00:44:14.675
but they'll get these Parkinson's patients
00:44:14.755 --> 00:44:19.257
and then PT or SPT, SPTA, OT,
00:44:19.617 --> 00:44:21.418
CODA students will all come together to
00:44:21.458 --> 00:44:23.460
help, you know,
00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:25.139
put these fun games together for these
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:26.940
Parkinson's patients and stuff like that.
00:44:27.621 --> 00:44:31.242
And other than that, we also do like,
00:44:32.523 --> 00:44:32.804
like,
00:44:33.068 --> 00:44:34.010
patient handling stuff.
00:44:34.030 --> 00:44:35.210
So like I said, they,
00:44:36.030 --> 00:44:36.831
as a PTA student,
00:44:36.851 --> 00:44:38.512
you learn that very early on.
00:44:38.972 --> 00:44:40.572
That's important because you've got a
00:44:40.612 --> 00:44:42.054
clinical coming up your first year, right?
00:44:42.454 --> 00:44:44.175
Or your, sorry, your second semester.
00:44:45.016 --> 00:44:47.237
And so while we're in the weeds on
00:44:47.297 --> 00:44:49.257
gross anatomy, we have no idea how to,
00:44:49.338 --> 00:44:50.639
what a gait belt is or what a
00:44:50.659 --> 00:44:51.139
transfer is.
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.922
And that way we're able to collaborate and
00:44:56.202 --> 00:44:56.943
build, you know,
00:44:56.963 --> 00:44:59.103
kind of bounce back and forth what we
00:44:59.143 --> 00:44:59.364
know,
00:44:59.503 --> 00:45:00.525
what we're going through and stuff like
00:45:00.545 --> 00:45:00.664
that.
00:45:02.485 --> 00:45:04.387
And we're also in the same building.
00:45:04.547 --> 00:45:07.567
We're just across the hallway from each
00:45:07.606 --> 00:45:07.788
other.
00:45:08.248 --> 00:45:08.887
That's great.
00:45:09.507 --> 00:45:10.148
Yeah.
00:45:10.487 --> 00:45:12.148
And I know a lot of PT and
00:45:12.168 --> 00:45:15.150
PT programs are doing a lot better at
00:45:15.429 --> 00:45:17.650
integrating students early on.
00:45:18.231 --> 00:45:20.971
I know that the PT and PTA students
00:45:20.990 --> 00:45:21.851
that I work with,
00:45:22.831 --> 00:45:25.873
we do an event where they get together.
00:45:25.952 --> 00:45:27.373
In the first half of the event,
00:45:27.452 --> 00:45:29.193
we simply just have them ask,
00:45:30.193 --> 00:45:32.255
kind of like speed dating questions like
00:45:32.617 --> 00:45:34.318
what do you like to do what do
00:45:34.338 --> 00:45:36.201
you like to do for fun what are
00:45:36.221 --> 00:45:38.603
your favorite books you know like who do
00:45:38.623 --> 00:45:40.284
you follow on instagram you know all this
00:45:40.304 --> 00:45:41.527
kind of stuff you know it's just like
00:45:42.067 --> 00:45:44.250
learning that you're all humans right
00:45:45.173 --> 00:45:46.315
Like everybody, you know,
00:45:46.335 --> 00:45:50.539
we all have goals and dreams and everybody
00:45:50.579 --> 00:45:52.561
came into physical therapy for their own
00:45:52.681 --> 00:45:53.824
personal reasons.
00:45:53.903 --> 00:45:56.806
And some of it was their own injury.
00:45:56.847 --> 00:45:58.128
Some of them were family members.
00:45:58.148 --> 00:45:59.530
Some of them had nothing to do with
00:45:59.570 --> 00:45:59.769
that.
00:45:59.829 --> 00:46:01.331
But there's all these different reasons
00:46:01.371 --> 00:46:02.233
why people come in.
00:46:02.432 --> 00:46:03.393
And I'm always...
00:46:05.016 --> 00:46:06.777
it's always surprising to me that after
00:46:06.858 --> 00:46:08.780
every time we do this event the pta
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:10.621
students come to me and they always say
00:46:11.181 --> 00:46:12.643
i knew so much more than i thought
00:46:12.722 --> 00:46:14.224
i did and i'm like well of course
00:46:14.264 --> 00:46:15.585
you did you know like i'm not going
00:46:15.606 --> 00:46:17.148
to throw you into something where i knew
00:46:17.188 --> 00:46:19.389
you wouldn't be able to swim um but
00:46:19.469 --> 00:46:20.791
yeah of course you did you know and
00:46:20.811 --> 00:46:22.012
they were like well we just thought that
00:46:22.032 --> 00:46:22.954
they were going to be so much more
00:46:22.974 --> 00:46:24.135
advanced than us and
00:46:24.635 --> 00:46:26.115
And a lot of that has to do
00:46:26.155 --> 00:46:27.197
with timing.
00:46:27.237 --> 00:46:27.777
Like you said,
00:46:27.818 --> 00:46:29.679
like in your first year of PT school,
00:46:30.139 --> 00:46:31.641
you're learning gross anatomy right now.
00:46:31.701 --> 00:46:33.422
You guys haven't even gotten into some of
00:46:33.461 --> 00:46:34.603
that more detailed things,
00:46:34.623 --> 00:46:36.985
but in the PTA program, you're right away.
00:46:37.005 --> 00:46:38.445
You know, like I said,
00:46:38.485 --> 00:46:40.007
you're transferring patients right away.
00:46:40.027 --> 00:46:41.548
You're like kind of diving right in.
00:46:41.949 --> 00:46:44.530
And that shows some of those different
00:46:44.570 --> 00:46:47.793
facets of what makes us very unique and
00:46:47.833 --> 00:46:49.695
very helpful to each other, right?
00:46:49.755 --> 00:46:53.338
You know, like we need that blend of,
00:46:54.177 --> 00:46:56.340
the way that the PT brain works and
00:46:56.380 --> 00:46:58.420
the way that the PT brain is kind
00:46:58.460 --> 00:47:01.202
of assessing a situation and the way that
00:47:01.222 --> 00:47:03.043
the PTA is kind of handling that
00:47:03.063 --> 00:47:03.483
situation.
00:47:03.523 --> 00:47:05.065
That's what makes it, you know,
00:47:05.085 --> 00:47:07.447
a really good partnership.
00:47:07.547 --> 00:47:09.889
And something that honestly I now take for
00:47:09.909 --> 00:47:11.829
granted having gone to a state,
00:47:11.889 --> 00:47:14.592
but sometimes it goes both ways.
00:47:14.692 --> 00:47:16.713
PTs don't know what a PTA is capable
00:47:16.793 --> 00:47:19.695
of or what they know or, you know,
00:47:19.795 --> 00:47:21.235
kind of what training they had.
00:47:22.215 --> 00:47:23.056
But at a state it's,
00:47:23.393 --> 00:47:24.393
It's very transparent.
00:47:24.614 --> 00:47:24.873
You know,
00:47:24.934 --> 00:47:28.135
we know that PTAs go through an intense
00:47:28.295 --> 00:47:30.858
first or one year where you're learning
00:47:30.978 --> 00:47:33.960
essentially all that we have to know in
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:36.402
one year minus the evaluative stuff and
00:47:36.501 --> 00:47:37.682
all the detailed things.
00:47:37.722 --> 00:47:39.643
But, you know, PTA knows a lot.
00:47:40.425 --> 00:47:42.425
And sometimes if, you know,
00:47:42.485 --> 00:47:44.367
I've seen this before where a PTE maybe
00:47:44.407 --> 00:47:45.807
didn't have that experience and they're
00:47:45.827 --> 00:47:48.090
not aware of what a PTA can do.
00:47:48.659 --> 00:47:50.440
that PT PTA relationship can be a little
00:47:50.460 --> 00:47:51.322
harder to foster.
00:47:52.382 --> 00:47:55.403
But if you're a graduate from a state
00:47:55.443 --> 00:47:56.025
physical therapy,
00:47:56.065 --> 00:47:58.626
you've had that your entire three years.
00:47:58.786 --> 00:47:59.666
And that's really cool.
00:48:00.387 --> 00:48:01.608
You're going to be ready to rock and
00:48:01.648 --> 00:48:02.949
roll and you're going to be like doubly
00:48:03.068 --> 00:48:03.889
ready to rock and roll.
00:48:04.250 --> 00:48:05.269
So why DPT?
00:48:05.309 --> 00:48:06.851
Like what made you decide to do that?
00:48:06.891 --> 00:48:08.592
Was that always the plan or was it
00:48:08.632 --> 00:48:09.373
kind of, I mean,
00:48:09.472 --> 00:48:10.753
obviously it wasn't always the plan
00:48:10.793 --> 00:48:12.014
because you were thinking about something
00:48:12.034 --> 00:48:12.695
completely different,
00:48:12.715 --> 00:48:15.315
but like when you came into PTA school,
00:48:15.335 --> 00:48:16.157
were you kind of like, Oh,
00:48:16.177 --> 00:48:16.516
you know what?
00:48:16.556 --> 00:48:17.757
Maybe I will keep going.
00:48:19.115 --> 00:48:21.597
So I wasn't one hundred percent sure on
00:48:21.637 --> 00:48:21.737
it,
00:48:21.838 --> 00:48:24.059
but I was I was like eighty five
00:48:24.579 --> 00:48:27.521
percent sure because I knew they had this
00:48:27.541 --> 00:48:28.081
really cool,
00:48:28.422 --> 00:48:29.643
almost like a fast track program,
00:48:29.663 --> 00:48:31.545
like you can get your undergrad and your
00:48:31.565 --> 00:48:33.246
associates and PTA in three years.
00:48:34.226 --> 00:48:34.867
If you want,
00:48:34.947 --> 00:48:37.789
if you really want to hate yourself for
00:48:38.048 --> 00:48:40.471
for three years and then you can go
00:48:40.650 --> 00:48:42.251
and get your PT in the same place.
00:48:42.331 --> 00:48:45.333
And so I knew that the end game
00:48:45.373 --> 00:48:45.735
was PT.
00:48:46.556 --> 00:48:48.217
But after going through the PTA program,
00:48:48.237 --> 00:48:48.657
I was like, well,
00:48:48.677 --> 00:48:49.516
this is a really cool gig.
00:48:49.856 --> 00:48:50.677
Like, I can do a lot.
00:48:50.717 --> 00:48:52.057
I didn't realize how much you could do
00:48:52.097 --> 00:48:52.657
as a PTA.
00:48:54.538 --> 00:48:56.119
But ultimately, yeah, going back.
00:48:56.579 --> 00:48:56.938
Now,
00:48:56.958 --> 00:48:58.659
figuring out the finances is a little
00:48:58.699 --> 00:49:02.581
strange because you, as a PTA,
00:49:02.601 --> 00:49:05.302
are missing out on three years of working
00:49:05.322 --> 00:49:08.322
full-time, of being a pay-in.
00:49:08.342 --> 00:49:08.822
That sucks.
00:49:08.862 --> 00:49:09.722
It's a hard pill to swallow.
00:49:10.422 --> 00:49:11.364
But around here,
00:49:11.384 --> 00:49:12.824
we have really good opportunities to work
00:49:12.864 --> 00:49:14.364
on the weekends in patient rehab
00:49:14.384 --> 00:49:15.485
facilities and things like that.
00:49:15.505 --> 00:49:16.005
Right, yeah.
00:49:16.896 --> 00:49:18.097
it becomes a lot more feasible.
00:49:18.117 --> 00:49:19.478
Yeah.
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:21.961
Are there any other students that are kind
00:49:21.981 --> 00:49:23.782
of doing the same pathway as you that
00:49:23.822 --> 00:49:26.686
were previous students from Arkansas State
00:49:26.706 --> 00:49:27.907
that are coming back through?
00:49:27.967 --> 00:49:29.728
Like, do you see that happen frequently?
00:49:30.608 --> 00:49:34.172
There's usually always like one or two in
00:49:34.231 --> 00:49:34.793
each cohort.
00:49:34.813 --> 00:49:35.853
Like this past cohort,
00:49:35.873 --> 00:49:38.456
I know there was at least one who
00:49:38.496 --> 00:49:40.137
graduated from Arkansas State,
00:49:40.478 --> 00:49:41.539
took a little bit of a gap,
00:49:41.978 --> 00:49:43.661
and he went and did a ton of
00:49:43.681 --> 00:49:43.920
stuff.
00:49:43.940 --> 00:49:44.081
He's a
00:49:44.835 --> 00:49:45.775
an amazing therapist,
00:49:45.795 --> 00:49:48.677
and then went back and graduated with his
00:49:48.717 --> 00:49:49.139
doctorate.
00:49:49.458 --> 00:49:51.440
And then there's one in my class who,
00:49:51.721 --> 00:49:52.601
or one other in my class,
00:49:53.202 --> 00:49:55.123
who had an ASU Mountain Home program.
00:49:55.603 --> 00:49:57.286
He did that practice for a few years
00:49:57.326 --> 00:49:58.027
and then came back.
00:49:58.067 --> 00:49:59.487
So you do see it, you know,
00:49:59.507 --> 00:50:01.489
about one or two that usually they come
00:50:01.510 --> 00:50:03.030
back and get it.
00:50:03.090 --> 00:50:04.572
What kind of questions do you think a
00:50:04.632 --> 00:50:06.793
PTA should be asking themselves if they're
00:50:06.914 --> 00:50:09.536
considering going back to be a DPT?
00:50:10.539 --> 00:50:10.679
I mean,
00:50:10.739 --> 00:50:12.001
is there anything that you would say,
00:50:12.481 --> 00:50:14.623
really ask yourself these things before
00:50:14.663 --> 00:50:15.342
you take the jump?
00:50:16.423 --> 00:50:18.666
Yeah, I mean, I'd ask yourself,
00:50:18.826 --> 00:50:23.208
what do you want out of, you know,
00:50:23.568 --> 00:50:24.590
spending an extra three years on your
00:50:24.630 --> 00:50:25.110
education?
00:50:26.231 --> 00:50:26.731
For some people,
00:50:26.811 --> 00:50:28.273
if you've already been in it a long
00:50:28.333 --> 00:50:32.815
time in your PTA, and you enjoy having,
00:50:34.416 --> 00:50:35.918
you know, you're treating more,
00:50:35.958 --> 00:50:37.298
there's less paperwork,
00:50:37.318 --> 00:50:38.400
there's less overhead,
00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:38.719
and
00:50:40.393 --> 00:50:41.795
A degree that's less responsibility
00:50:41.934 --> 00:50:43.576
because you're not having to supervise
00:50:43.835 --> 00:50:44.496
different therapists.
00:50:46.117 --> 00:50:47.559
You can still make great money.
00:50:48.420 --> 00:50:49.800
So you have to think about the financial
00:50:49.860 --> 00:50:50.380
part of it.
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:51.862
Are you doing this to make more money?
00:50:51.922 --> 00:50:53.123
Because in that instance,
00:50:54.603 --> 00:50:56.646
maybe spending three more years in college
00:50:56.666 --> 00:50:58.807
is not the best way to do that.
00:50:58.847 --> 00:51:01.309
Especially, you know,
00:51:01.389 --> 00:51:03.030
a state is very affordable.
00:51:03.532 --> 00:51:06.594
it's about sixty ish thousand for the full
00:51:06.634 --> 00:51:09.175
three years which is really good yeah your
00:51:09.215 --> 00:51:11.695
PTA and you're somewhere where it's a
00:51:11.815 --> 00:51:14.077
hundred and sixty thousand for three years
00:51:14.097 --> 00:51:16.518
yeah you have to think is that really
00:51:16.597 --> 00:51:17.657
is that really worth it return on
00:51:17.697 --> 00:51:20.059
investment you know are you gonna yeah
00:51:20.219 --> 00:51:22.019
really in the long run make more money
00:51:23.659 --> 00:51:25.800
going the extra three years so I think
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:27.782
the biggest thing is financially is it a
00:51:27.822 --> 00:51:28.382
good investment
00:51:29.980 --> 00:51:30.860
If your heart's in it,
00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:32.061
if you really want to get that extra
00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:32.800
education,
00:51:33.322 --> 00:51:34.621
then you can figure out how do I
00:51:34.641 --> 00:51:36.722
want to make the financial part of it
00:51:36.742 --> 00:51:36.902
work.
00:51:36.943 --> 00:51:38.483
Can I find a good affordable school?
00:51:39.563 --> 00:51:40.945
Can I work on the weekends?
00:51:41.565 --> 00:51:43.726
Can I, you know, move in,
00:51:43.746 --> 00:51:44.706
kind of find a roommate, you know,
00:51:44.746 --> 00:51:45.565
make it work in that way.
00:51:46.867 --> 00:51:49.628
I think the biggest things are finances
00:51:49.768 --> 00:51:51.909
and then the meaning you want out of
00:51:51.929 --> 00:51:52.248
the career.
00:51:53.706 --> 00:51:53.905
Now,
00:51:54.166 --> 00:51:56.047
you are a first generation college
00:51:56.067 --> 00:51:57.248
student, is that correct?
00:51:58.128 --> 00:52:00.768
So what kind of things did you think
00:52:00.809 --> 00:52:03.389
about before you decided on college?
00:52:03.429 --> 00:52:05.751
When you were considering college,
00:52:06.271 --> 00:52:07.751
what kind of questions did you ask
00:52:07.771 --> 00:52:10.293
yourself about debt, education,
00:52:10.373 --> 00:52:11.534
return on investment?
00:52:12.574 --> 00:52:14.255
How do people kind of parse that
00:52:14.295 --> 00:52:16.436
information out?
00:52:16.476 --> 00:52:21.398
So my biggest thing and something that I'm
00:52:21.418 --> 00:52:22.458
sure my entire generation
00:52:23.532 --> 00:52:25.673
ruminates on before they decide to go to
00:52:25.693 --> 00:52:28.793
college is the cost.
00:52:28.813 --> 00:52:31.295
College is just continuing to get more
00:52:31.335 --> 00:52:32.255
expensive and things.
00:52:32.335 --> 00:52:38.556
But if you're going into a profession that
00:52:38.577 --> 00:52:39.336
requires a degree,
00:52:39.496 --> 00:52:40.498
such as physical therapy,
00:52:41.498 --> 00:52:44.719
and you are getting scholarships.
00:52:44.759 --> 00:52:45.639
I was fortunate.
00:52:45.898 --> 00:52:47.039
I got really good scholarships.
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:48.579
For me,
00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:51.201
it was a no-brainer to make that
00:52:51.221 --> 00:52:52.101
investment in time.
00:52:52.681 --> 00:52:53.922
it really was more of an investment time
00:52:53.943 --> 00:52:54.543
than it was money.
00:52:54.744 --> 00:52:57.126
And so in that instance,
00:52:57.186 --> 00:52:58.206
it's a great choice.
00:52:59.186 --> 00:53:01.528
If you are fresh out of high school
00:53:01.748 --> 00:53:02.550
and you're like, I don't,
00:53:02.929 --> 00:53:03.911
I can't afford it.
00:53:04.550 --> 00:53:05.711
I don't have good scholarships.
00:53:05.731 --> 00:53:08.333
You know, it may be better to,
00:53:09.974 --> 00:53:11.717
if for instance, being a PTA,
00:53:11.817 --> 00:53:13.057
it's two years, it's,
00:53:13.518 --> 00:53:15.099
it's still a big chunk of change,
00:53:15.139 --> 00:53:17.601
but you're out in two years and now
00:53:17.681 --> 00:53:19.222
you're, you're practicing as a,
00:53:19.422 --> 00:53:20.903
as a clinician and making money.
00:53:21.748 --> 00:53:22.548
pretty decent money.
00:53:22.588 --> 00:53:24.250
And so you have to assess that.
00:53:24.369 --> 00:53:26.532
Do I want to spend all this time
00:53:26.572 --> 00:53:28.733
in college and not end up making that
00:53:28.753 --> 00:53:30.893
much money because of your student loan
00:53:30.914 --> 00:53:31.873
debt?
00:53:34.036 --> 00:53:34.835
A lot of it boils down,
00:53:34.876 --> 00:53:39.077
especially for people my age.
00:53:39.237 --> 00:53:41.739
Is this going to work?
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:44.101
Is this going to be a good investment?
00:53:45.460 --> 00:53:45.721
Yeah.
00:53:46.322 --> 00:53:46.461
Yeah,
00:53:46.501 --> 00:53:48.422
your generation is definitely asking the
00:53:48.463 --> 00:53:49.224
why question.
00:53:49.304 --> 00:53:51.206
And your generation isn't settling for
00:53:51.226 --> 00:53:52.967
because that's the way it has always been.
00:53:53.847 --> 00:53:55.108
And I applaud that.
00:53:55.289 --> 00:53:56.230
That's something that
00:53:58.889 --> 00:54:01.911
students want to know the why behind
00:54:02.092 --> 00:54:04.914
everything now and and that's okay like we
00:54:04.954 --> 00:54:07.615
should be answering that why you know so
00:54:07.996 --> 00:54:09.456
we have to be prepared to kind of
00:54:09.516 --> 00:54:12.300
give the the reasons why this is still
00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:15.521
a good career this is still worthy um
00:54:15.581 --> 00:54:18.123
profession to go into and um i know
00:54:18.143 --> 00:54:19.865
there's a lot of there's a lot of
00:54:20.606 --> 00:54:22.206
talk there's a lot of smack talk that
00:54:22.246 --> 00:54:24.628
happens about you know like especially you
00:54:24.648 --> 00:54:27.588
know the cost of dpt education it's like
00:54:27.608 --> 00:54:29.128
you said it can be insane somewhere it
00:54:29.168 --> 00:54:30.789
sounds like you're you're in a place that
00:54:30.829 --> 00:54:33.251
is very comfortable um i applaud you for
00:54:33.291 --> 00:54:34.690
applying for scholarships and getting
00:54:34.731 --> 00:54:37.793
those scholarships but we're not um we're
00:54:37.833 --> 00:54:39.472
not ignoring or abandoning the fact that
00:54:39.512 --> 00:54:42.675
there are some very expensive programs out
00:54:42.715 --> 00:54:45.235
there right you know and so becoming a
00:54:45.275 --> 00:54:45.695
pta
00:54:46.576 --> 00:54:48.199
can be very worthwhile on your money,
00:54:48.259 --> 00:54:48.518
right?
00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:48.840
You know,
00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:51.503
like I only spent about twelve thousand
00:54:51.543 --> 00:54:54.889
dollars on my PTA education and the same
00:54:54.929 --> 00:54:55.570
college.
00:54:56.521 --> 00:54:57.742
Twenty some years later,
00:54:57.862 --> 00:54:59.782
it's only about seventeen, sixteen,
00:54:59.802 --> 00:55:00.682
seventeen thousand now.
00:55:00.722 --> 00:55:02.382
So that's only an increase of about four
00:55:02.443 --> 00:55:03.523
thousand dollars, right?
00:55:03.563 --> 00:55:03.643
Yes.
00:55:05.483 --> 00:55:06.463
Yeah, that's, you know,
00:55:06.483 --> 00:55:09.324
a pretty good deal for for an education
00:55:09.344 --> 00:55:10.364
where you're going to come out and you're
00:55:10.385 --> 00:55:12.545
going to make that kind of money way
00:55:13.045 --> 00:55:14.344
better, you know, pretty quickly.
00:55:14.405 --> 00:55:16.945
But scholarships, you know,
00:55:16.965 --> 00:55:17.646
you mentioned that.
00:55:17.706 --> 00:55:19.465
And I think that students are sometimes
00:55:19.545 --> 00:55:20.746
afraid to touch it.
00:55:21.206 --> 00:55:22.467
They're like, I don't know, like,
00:55:22.487 --> 00:55:24.067
what if I don't get it or whatever.
00:55:24.226 --> 00:55:25.806
You know, what if I'm not, you know,
00:55:25.847 --> 00:55:26.987
the kind of student they're looking for?
00:55:27.108 --> 00:55:30.467
Just apply to scholarships, find them,
00:55:30.708 --> 00:55:32.347
apply for them, do it.
00:55:32.568 --> 00:55:34.548
I send students scholarship information
00:55:34.588 --> 00:55:35.208
all the time.
00:55:36.248 --> 00:55:38.009
If you're in a PT or a PTA
00:55:38.068 --> 00:55:38.469
program,
00:55:38.789 --> 00:55:40.889
you most likely already meet the GPA
00:55:40.929 --> 00:55:42.510
requirement for that scholarship because
00:55:42.550 --> 00:55:43.710
we hold such high standards.
00:55:43.730 --> 00:55:45.070
So just apply.
00:55:45.670 --> 00:55:48.010
What's the worst you can do is not
00:55:48.070 --> 00:55:49.231
have any additional money.
00:55:49.251 --> 00:55:50.572
You're not going to lose money.
00:55:50.592 --> 00:55:51.572
Exactly, exactly.
00:55:52.762 --> 00:55:54.141
Just apply for the scholarship.
00:55:55.182 --> 00:55:57.242
And I went through my freshman year,
00:55:57.704 --> 00:55:59.304
like a trio program.
00:55:59.324 --> 00:56:00.583
So it's like for first generation
00:56:00.623 --> 00:56:01.005
students.
00:56:01.764 --> 00:56:02.744
And they said the same exact thing.
00:56:03.045 --> 00:56:04.726
It's like, just apply.
00:56:04.985 --> 00:56:07.465
Like you're going to spend maybe, uh,
00:56:07.485 --> 00:56:08.686
thirty minutes an hour filling out all
00:56:08.706 --> 00:56:10.666
these applications, but there's no real,
00:56:10.706 --> 00:56:11.867
like, uh,
00:56:11.987 --> 00:56:13.527
financial investment you're making to
00:56:13.547 --> 00:56:14.108
apply for these.
00:56:14.168 --> 00:56:17.028
Like, just, just spend the time and apply.
00:56:17.108 --> 00:56:17.409
You'll,
00:56:17.469 --> 00:56:18.710
you'll thank yourself later because I
00:56:18.730 --> 00:56:19.030
ended up
00:56:19.923 --> 00:56:20.925
I'm currently debt free.
00:56:21.204 --> 00:56:22.365
I didn't have to pay anything for my
00:56:22.427 --> 00:56:24.728
tuition for PTA or my undergrad.
00:56:25.769 --> 00:56:27.831
And I've then been able to save money
00:56:27.891 --> 00:56:30.353
to pay for my doctorate degree.
00:56:30.393 --> 00:56:31.896
So just apply.
00:56:32.827 --> 00:56:33.626
There's a pathway.
00:56:33.806 --> 00:56:35.208
You just got to be kind of willing
00:56:35.547 --> 00:56:36.967
to look around and see if you can
00:56:37.007 --> 00:56:37.829
find that pathway.
00:56:38.608 --> 00:56:40.748
Sometimes it takes a slightly different
00:56:40.768 --> 00:56:41.550
route for everybody,
00:56:41.590 --> 00:56:44.190
but don't discount yourself.
00:56:44.411 --> 00:56:44.971
Keep looking.
00:56:45.451 --> 00:56:47.110
We're going to play a game next.
00:56:47.291 --> 00:56:49.791
Let's do it.
00:56:49.811 --> 00:56:51.152
I want to play this game with you.
00:56:51.672 --> 00:56:53.753
I don't always play games with guests on
00:56:54.074 --> 00:56:54.393
the show,
00:56:54.434 --> 00:56:56.954
but I feel like it's appropriate.
00:56:56.974 --> 00:56:59.114
I think we'll have fun with this.
00:56:59.574 --> 00:57:00.635
It's called Keep It...
00:57:01.556 --> 00:57:03.976
cut it or cram and this would be
00:57:04.036 --> 00:57:05.536
for studying right you know so we're
00:57:05.876 --> 00:57:07.277
you've already given us like your eight
00:57:07.318 --> 00:57:09.737
hundred playbook right so um we're gonna
00:57:09.777 --> 00:57:11.978
think about some study behavior so i'm
00:57:12.018 --> 00:57:14.340
gonna i'm gonna give you a prompt and
00:57:14.380 --> 00:57:15.940
you're gonna tell me if they should keep
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:17.820
it if they should pitch it and cut
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:20.161
it or if they should absolutely cram for
00:57:20.202 --> 00:57:24.123
that okay okay okay okay sound good all
00:57:24.402 --> 00:57:26.342
right so the first one rereading the
00:57:26.362 --> 00:57:30.485
textbook cut it i mean well okay wait
00:57:30.565 --> 00:57:31.385
let's put some context onto it
00:57:31.690 --> 00:57:36.833
okay if you're really reading it just like
00:57:37.012 --> 00:57:38.695
oh i'm just bored i'm going to read
00:57:38.715 --> 00:57:41.036
through my vitamins or whatever i mean
00:57:41.255 --> 00:57:42.536
that's just a complete that's a complete
00:57:42.556 --> 00:57:44.137
waste of time don't do that if you're
00:57:44.157 --> 00:57:47.519
rereading it to look at a question you
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:49.802
missed on the practice exam keep it
00:57:50.181 --> 00:57:54.023
absolutely keep it got it making beautiful
00:57:54.063 --> 00:57:54.945
colored notes
00:57:57.210 --> 00:57:58.530
Cut it.
00:57:58.570 --> 00:57:59.210
I mean, listen,
00:57:59.610 --> 00:58:00.871
I know a ton of people who do
00:58:00.891 --> 00:58:02.592
this and their notes look fantastic.
00:58:02.612 --> 00:58:03.992
You're going to get some hate mail now.
00:58:04.012 --> 00:58:05.574
I am, yeah.
00:58:06.253 --> 00:58:08.315
Because one of our GA,
00:58:09.715 --> 00:58:11.356
the second one we had for the summer,
00:58:11.876 --> 00:58:13.438
she had these beautiful notes and she's
00:58:13.478 --> 00:58:16.239
very smart.
00:58:16.378 --> 00:58:17.940
I can't spend all that time.
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:20.081
I'm also not very artsy.
00:58:20.121 --> 00:58:21.922
So if I could do that and it
00:58:21.942 --> 00:58:23.762
was very efficient, I would.
00:58:24.922 --> 00:58:26.344
I would cut it because...
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.043
you can easily type out flashcards and
00:58:29.083 --> 00:58:30.286
spend time reviewing those.
00:58:31.208 --> 00:58:32.009
They're not as pretty.
00:58:32.329 --> 00:58:33.672
You can make flashcards online look
00:58:33.711 --> 00:58:36.177
pretty, but I would, I would cut that.
00:58:37.445 --> 00:58:37.706
Yeah.
00:58:38.146 --> 00:58:39.887
And also highlighting good grief.
00:58:39.907 --> 00:58:42.250
You should have seen my textbooks from PTA
00:58:42.289 --> 00:58:42.590
school.
00:58:43.251 --> 00:58:43.331
I,
00:58:43.570 --> 00:58:45.193
I don't know how much money I invested
00:58:45.233 --> 00:58:45.914
in highlighters,
00:58:45.954 --> 00:58:48.096
but it did not change anything.
00:58:49.817 --> 00:58:50.677
Like there were whole, like,
00:58:51.018 --> 00:58:52.159
I think there was like sometimes like
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:53.181
pages that the whole thing was
00:58:53.221 --> 00:58:53.481
highlighted.
00:58:53.501 --> 00:58:53.701
I'm like,
00:58:53.740 --> 00:58:54.561
I just got to know all of it.
00:58:54.581 --> 00:58:55.081
I got to know all of it.
00:58:55.143 --> 00:58:59.447
If you're,
00:58:59.467 --> 00:59:00.327
if you're someone who's going through a
00:59:00.347 --> 00:59:00.768
textbook,
00:59:01.902 --> 00:59:02.963
Well,
00:59:02.983 --> 00:59:05.003
that's how we ended up going through
00:59:05.204 --> 00:59:05.503
school.
00:59:05.543 --> 00:59:06.284
You go through textbooks.
00:59:06.324 --> 00:59:07.623
But if you find something that you want
00:59:07.643 --> 00:59:10.905
to highlight, don't highlight it.
00:59:10.925 --> 00:59:13.405
Put it in a flashcard format because we
00:59:13.485 --> 00:59:15.326
need to bring that up later.
00:59:16.166 --> 00:59:17.365
And while you can reread it,
00:59:18.027 --> 00:59:19.527
what's better is if you form that into
00:59:19.547 --> 00:59:22.047
a question and then you find different
00:59:22.086 --> 00:59:26.148
ways you can build context around that
00:59:26.188 --> 00:59:27.929
question and do that instead.
00:59:28.248 --> 00:59:29.128
It doesn't look nearly as pretty.
00:59:29.769 --> 00:59:32.211
But it can help you a little bit
00:59:32.251 --> 00:59:32.472
better.
00:59:33.052 --> 00:59:34.534
I wish I had all these study tips
00:59:34.574 --> 00:59:35.514
when I was a student.
00:59:36.014 --> 00:59:37.916
So I think I know what your answer
00:59:37.936 --> 00:59:38.677
is going to be on this one,
00:59:38.697 --> 00:59:39.677
but active recall.
00:59:39.697 --> 00:59:40.038
Oh, keep it.
00:59:42.099 --> 00:59:42.380
Keep it.
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:43.081
Absolutely.
00:59:43.101 --> 00:59:43.681
We got to keep it.
00:59:43.740 --> 00:59:44.822
We got to keep it.
00:59:44.842 --> 00:59:45.742
We've got to keep it.
00:59:46.103 --> 00:59:48.465
Studying your strongest subject because it
00:59:48.505 --> 00:59:49.126
feels good.
00:59:49.965 --> 00:59:52.047
Oh, I mean,
00:59:52.088 --> 00:59:53.708
if you need to pick me up,
00:59:53.789 --> 00:59:55.050
if you're going through cardiopalm and
00:59:55.070 --> 00:59:55.431
you're like, man,
00:59:55.451 --> 00:59:56.711
I just got to look at some muscles,
00:59:58.012 --> 00:59:59.054
I can definitely understand.
00:59:59.134 --> 00:59:59.393
But
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No, I'm going to say, wait,
01:00:01.931 --> 01:00:02.590
so what is cram it?
01:00:03.291 --> 01:00:04.733
Redefine cram it for me as the third
01:00:04.773 --> 01:00:04.974
option.
01:00:05.273 --> 01:00:06.896
So cram it would be useful,
01:00:06.916 --> 01:00:08.177
but only strategically.
01:00:08.398 --> 01:00:08.557
Okay.
01:00:08.577 --> 01:00:11.021
I'm going to say cram it because it
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can be strategic.
01:00:12.463 --> 01:00:12.543
Okay.
01:00:12.563 --> 01:00:14.684
If you're in that last bout of studying
01:00:14.826 --> 01:00:15.186
and again,
01:00:15.206 --> 01:00:19.030
you're down to the weeds on COPD.
01:00:21.297 --> 01:00:23.938
So that's when you whip out the OIA
01:00:23.958 --> 01:00:27.019
and flashcards and just kind of refresh.
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:28.880
I used to give myself a treat.
01:00:29.181 --> 01:00:32.063
Like if I met my study goals,
01:00:32.103 --> 01:00:32.844
I would be like, okay,
01:00:32.923 --> 01:00:34.144
now I get a cappuccino.
01:00:34.304 --> 01:00:34.945
Or I'd be like,
01:00:35.005 --> 01:00:36.465
now I get to watch a TV show.
01:00:36.485 --> 01:00:38.146
Like I would always give myself like a
01:00:38.246 --> 01:00:41.048
treat afterwards that felt kind of like
01:00:41.309 --> 01:00:42.570
relaxing to my brain.
01:00:43.451 --> 01:00:44.170
So, you know,
01:00:44.670 --> 01:00:46.271
allow yourself treats from time to time.
01:00:46.672 --> 01:00:47.552
I'm going to say keep that.
01:00:47.693 --> 01:00:48.454
Allow treats.
01:00:48.514 --> 01:00:48.753
Yeah.
01:00:48.994 --> 01:00:51.576
yeah um all right what's that oh no
01:00:51.596 --> 01:00:52.657
i was saying i used to have like
01:00:52.677 --> 01:00:56.119
the mentality of like the worker and then
01:00:56.159 --> 01:00:59.181
the boss version of me like the worker
01:00:59.461 --> 01:01:01.123
has got to do this stuff and study
01:01:01.864 --> 01:01:03.025
but then the boss needs to allow the
01:01:03.045 --> 01:01:06.527
workers some time to go go to starbucks
01:01:06.568 --> 01:01:09.730
we have here in uh arkansas shadracks some
01:01:09.750 --> 01:01:12.431
shatties so you got to allow yourself a
01:01:12.492 --> 01:01:14.414
reward for sure allow yourself those
01:01:14.454 --> 01:01:17.896
rewards okay studying late into the night
01:01:17.936 --> 01:01:18.657
before an exam
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:25.260
Uh, can be a Kramat can be strategic.
01:01:25.581 --> 01:01:26.362
If you've,
01:01:26.722 --> 01:01:28.043
if we talked about the slow burn,
01:01:28.083 --> 01:01:29.103
if you're spending time,
01:01:29.784 --> 01:01:31.144
if this is your first time looking at
01:01:31.164 --> 01:01:32.925
the material the entire week,
01:01:32.945 --> 01:01:34.666
I'm going to say you're better off just
01:01:34.686 --> 01:01:36.547
getting a good night's sleep because we
01:01:36.588 --> 01:01:37.849
know that, uh,
01:01:37.869 --> 01:01:39.369
our REM phases of sleep are where learning
01:01:39.409 --> 01:01:40.090
actually occurs.
01:01:40.751 --> 01:01:42.170
When you're looking at the material,
01:01:42.210 --> 01:01:43.913
the learning is not, you're absorbing,
01:01:43.932 --> 01:01:45.793
you're getting that first layer of,
01:01:46.233 --> 01:01:46.793
of the learning,
01:01:47.114 --> 01:01:49.775
but you're not committing it to the
01:01:49.795 --> 01:01:51.056
hippocampus, the longterm memory.
01:01:51.077 --> 01:01:51.177
So,
01:01:53.802 --> 01:01:53.882
Yeah.
01:01:53.922 --> 01:01:54.583
Not too helpful.
01:01:54.764 --> 01:01:54.943
Yeah.
01:01:55.583 --> 01:01:56.985
I always tell students, I'm like,
01:01:57.965 --> 01:01:59.688
try not to study the day before your,
01:01:59.867 --> 01:02:00.708
your NPTE.
01:02:01.188 --> 01:02:02.110
Like you should be done.
01:02:02.369 --> 01:02:05.172
You should be done studying like that day.
01:02:05.251 --> 01:02:07.494
You should do something that's beautiful
01:02:07.574 --> 01:02:09.456
and helpful to your soul and kind to
01:02:09.476 --> 01:02:11.297
yourself and restful.
01:02:11.416 --> 01:02:13.239
And please don't study the day before
01:02:13.278 --> 01:02:14.099
your, your NPTE.
01:02:14.119 --> 01:02:14.460
No,
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:18.182
the day before I was looking at some,
01:02:18.282 --> 01:02:19.864
I was staying with some friends and we
01:02:19.903 --> 01:02:21.846
were like jokingly looking through things,
01:02:21.865 --> 01:02:22.306
but we were,
01:02:22.900 --> 01:02:24.643
running we were just chilling out it was
01:02:24.663 --> 01:02:28.925
good good yeah yeah just do do the
01:02:28.945 --> 01:02:31.068
slow burn you're you're getting it from
01:02:31.307 --> 01:02:33.190
from dillinger right now like get the slow
01:02:33.230 --> 01:02:35.132
burn going and then you won't have to
01:02:35.172 --> 01:02:37.474
cram that won't even be a word on
01:02:37.514 --> 01:02:39.155
your your radar you won't have to do
01:02:39.215 --> 01:02:41.117
any of that stuff exactly
01:02:41.768 --> 01:02:42.009
Okay,
01:02:42.048 --> 01:02:43.349
so I'm going to have you close us
01:02:43.429 --> 01:02:44.371
out with our plus point.
01:02:44.391 --> 01:02:45.751
So this is a tradition that I do
01:02:45.791 --> 01:02:46.472
on every show.
01:02:46.833 --> 01:02:48.715
Every guest has the opportunity to give me
01:02:48.755 --> 01:02:49.474
their plus point.
01:02:49.494 --> 01:02:51.177
And this is like an opportunity for you
01:02:51.197 --> 01:02:51.336
to,
01:02:51.717 --> 01:02:53.538
you can stand on your soapbox and preach
01:02:53.557 --> 01:02:55.199
to the world on whatever topic you want
01:02:55.219 --> 01:02:55.440
to.
01:02:55.780 --> 01:02:57.021
Typically it's about physical therapy,
01:02:57.041 --> 01:03:00.384
but you can start a fire under somebody.
01:03:00.443 --> 01:03:01.784
This is your moment.
01:03:01.804 --> 01:03:02.925
So what would you like to say to
01:03:02.945 --> 01:03:07.469
the audience?
01:03:07.530 --> 01:03:08.349
I would like to say,
01:03:08.369 --> 01:03:10.351
I won't be super, I won't throw any,
01:03:11.893 --> 01:03:13.574
shots out there or anything or start any
01:03:13.594 --> 01:03:13.954
fires,
01:03:14.016 --> 01:03:18.759
but I will say always strive to better
01:03:18.798 --> 01:03:19.239
yourself.
01:03:19.259 --> 01:03:19.780
You know,
01:03:19.940 --> 01:03:22.021
not only if you're thinking about being a
01:03:22.061 --> 01:03:24.302
student again and going back or you're
01:03:24.322 --> 01:03:25.784
just going to be a clinician.
01:03:26.923 --> 01:03:28.445
I think one way you can prevent,
01:03:28.565 --> 01:03:29.485
if you're thinking about the long run,
01:03:29.606 --> 01:03:33.849
you can prevent burnout is through
01:03:33.929 --> 01:03:34.329
learning.
01:03:34.389 --> 01:03:37.251
And that sounds super boring and maybe
01:03:37.371 --> 01:03:40.653
even like midwit in a way, but like,
01:03:41.271 --> 01:03:43.072
my in my instance when i first started
01:03:43.851 --> 01:03:45.333
i had no idea what the heck to
01:03:45.353 --> 01:03:46.873
do it was all new but the more
01:03:46.954 --> 01:03:49.014
i learned the more i got comfortable the
01:03:49.114 --> 01:03:51.476
easier it was to treat patients you'll
01:03:51.516 --> 01:03:53.856
always have the the cruddy part that i
01:03:53.876 --> 01:03:55.478
would say like the work part of being
01:03:55.538 --> 01:03:56.639
a physical therapist which is your
01:03:56.659 --> 01:04:00.659
documentation fighting insurance and all
01:04:00.681 --> 01:04:02.961
that stuff that will always be there but
01:04:02.981 --> 01:04:04.422
if you can get really good at the
01:04:04.521 --> 01:04:07.143
physical therapy part of it the hard part
01:04:07.164 --> 01:04:07.684
becomes
01:04:08.648 --> 01:04:11.610
this documentation crud and authorizations
01:04:11.630 --> 01:04:13.932
and all this stuff so my biggest thing
01:04:14.512 --> 01:04:19.016
is to continue learning and and make
01:04:19.036 --> 01:04:21.077
yourself a well-rounded therapist you know
01:04:21.097 --> 01:04:22.778
make the physical therapy side easy so you
01:04:22.798 --> 01:04:25.581
can battle this reimbursement crap and all
01:04:25.601 --> 01:04:26.981
that all that other good jazz
01:04:28.512 --> 01:04:28.972
I love it.
01:04:29.052 --> 01:04:29.713
I'm telling you why.
01:04:29.793 --> 01:04:30.014
I mean,
01:04:30.054 --> 01:04:31.295
you've hit on all the things that I
01:04:31.335 --> 01:04:33.135
love to preach about on this show.
01:04:33.195 --> 01:04:34.775
And yeah, I mean,
01:04:35.376 --> 01:04:38.737
combat burnout by continuously making
01:04:38.777 --> 01:04:39.518
yourself better.
01:04:39.878 --> 01:04:41.780
That's something that I kind of preach
01:04:41.820 --> 01:04:43.581
from the mountaintops here on the show is
01:04:43.621 --> 01:04:47.043
that if you're feeling unhappy in your job
01:04:47.262 --> 01:04:49.603
and you don't feel like you have any
01:04:50.143 --> 01:04:51.744
choice or any way to make changes or
01:04:51.764 --> 01:04:54.766
any autonomous decisions,
01:04:55.347 --> 01:04:56.327
that's going to affect you.
01:04:56.367 --> 01:04:58.188
But the more you know,
01:04:58.349 --> 01:04:59.949
the more you learn,
01:05:00.070 --> 01:05:02.172
the more you connect yourself,
01:05:02.731 --> 01:05:04.092
that can be through your professional
01:05:04.313 --> 01:05:04.853
organization,
01:05:04.873 --> 01:05:06.735
that can be through different continuing
01:05:06.795 --> 01:05:08.416
education, different skills,
01:05:08.797 --> 01:05:10.878
it can be a various amount of things.
01:05:11.298 --> 01:05:13.219
But the more you continue to challenge
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:15.641
yourself, it will return.
01:05:16.666 --> 01:05:19.228
some sort of satisfaction in some way.
01:05:19.248 --> 01:05:21.628
So like you keep investing and you'll find
01:05:21.668 --> 01:05:22.547
that satisfaction.
01:05:22.588 --> 01:05:24.289
So I love that you brought that up.
01:05:24.849 --> 01:05:26.548
Thank you so much for your time.
01:05:26.688 --> 01:05:27.009
I mean,
01:05:27.190 --> 01:05:29.369
you've given us so many wise words.
01:05:29.389 --> 01:05:32.451
I am so excited to see where your
01:05:32.490 --> 01:05:34.331
future leads because yeah,
01:05:34.351 --> 01:05:35.351
you might be treating,
01:05:35.411 --> 01:05:36.871
but I have a feeling there's going to
01:05:36.891 --> 01:05:38.652
be people wanting to recruit you all over
01:05:38.692 --> 01:05:40.733
the United States to come and teach in
01:05:40.753 --> 01:05:42.373
their program eventually at some point
01:05:42.393 --> 01:05:44.853
when you're ready or you could do whatever
01:05:44.893 --> 01:05:45.353
you want to do.
01:05:46.454 --> 01:05:49.277
So I'm excited that the world is your
01:05:49.356 --> 01:05:49.737
oyster.
01:05:49.818 --> 01:05:51.338
I'm excited to see where you go next,
01:05:51.358 --> 01:05:51.699
Dillinger.
01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:52.159
Yes, ma'am.
01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.141
I appreciate it.
01:05:54.161 --> 01:05:54.443
Yeah.
01:05:54.463 --> 01:05:57.125
Good luck with the remaining of PT school.
01:05:57.465 --> 01:05:59.628
I'm sure you could probably give us an
01:05:59.708 --> 01:06:00.568
update, right?
01:06:00.688 --> 01:06:01.769
Like I would love to.
01:06:01.789 --> 01:06:02.130
I would love to.
01:06:02.791 --> 01:06:03.791
You can hop on and give us an
01:06:03.833 --> 01:06:05.193
update and we can talk about something
01:06:05.213 --> 01:06:05.333
else.
01:06:05.353 --> 01:06:06.494
Yes, ma'am.
01:06:06.534 --> 01:06:07.016
Of course.
01:06:07.036 --> 01:06:08.056
Sounds great.
01:06:08.307 --> 01:06:09.469
All right, before we go,
01:06:09.628 --> 01:06:11.929
I have to give a quick partnership
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spotlight for PTA+.
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01:06:16.092 --> 01:06:17.534
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take a look at Spry.
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improve productivity,
01:06:28.521 --> 01:06:30.103
and reduce administrative burden.
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the clinicians and the patients.
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And thank you again for listening to PTA+.
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