Physical Therapy
Program Overview
At Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, our goal is to provide quality care to our patients while helping students gain skills to become a competent therapist. We promote education by modeling and hands-on experiences. We encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and to take initiative in gaining knowledge and experience.
As a student, you’ll receive guidance and tools to enhance the learning process. You may have the opportunity to observe the following:
- Diagnostic observation (including ICU, NICU, developmental evaluations, gait lab and others)
- Hospital-sponsored seminars
- Vendor demonstrations
- Research/applied science
- Specialty clinics (including Down syndrome, AMC, seating, CP, prosthetics, cleft palate and others)
- Surgery observation
- Curriculum
- Requirements
- Location & Living
Details for Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy graduate students are required to have completed at least one full-time fieldwork placement prior to an affiliation at Nemours. Tests and measures you may be expected to participate in include:
- Peabody Developmental Motor Scales PDMS-2
- Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency BOT2
- Functional Independence Measure WeeFIM
- Gross Motor Function Measure GMFM
- Gross Motor Function Classification System GMFCS
- Range of Motion, Goniometry
- Manual Muscle Testing, MMT
- Modified Ashworth Scale
Apply Now
Michelle Feairheller, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS
Physical Therapy
michelle.feairheller@nemours.org