Contact
Toby Sternheimer
(216) 987-4502
Toby.Sternheimer@tri-c.edu
Cleveland, OH
Health Careers Enrollment Ctr.
(216) 987-4247
healthcareers@tri-c.edu
Cuyahoga Community College
Metropolitan Campus
2900 Community College Ave.
Cleveland OH 44115-3196
Physical Therapist Assisting Technology
If you like to help people and enjoy working with body movement, Physical Therapist Assisting (PTA) may be a rewarding career for you. As a Physical Therapist Assistant, you’ll help people to recover from accidents, injuries, illness, stroke and other debilitating events.
Physical therapy helps to ease pain and improve function caused by injury, disease or other causes. Services include assisted movement, exercise treatment and heat/cold therapy.
The Physical Therapist Assistant program will prepare you for a professional health care career providing physical therapy treatments under the supervision of a Physical Therapist. Graduates are eligible to take an exam to qualify for licensure in any state.
Tri-C students get clinical experience with real patients at more than 75 clinical sites in northeast Ohio, including all of the major medical centers.
Job settings:
hospitals
nursing homes
rehabilitation centers
sports medicine clinics
pediatric facilities
outpatient clinics
home health care
corporate or industrial centers
wellness centers
sports medicine facilities
schools systems
This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following program outcomes:
Physical Therapist Assisting Technology Degree Outcomes.pdf
Suggested Semester Sequence
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(1) MATH-1800-1819/2800-2819 & 1820/2820 may not be used to meet this requirement. |
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(2) Minimum 8 semester credits—must include PSY-1010 & 2010. |
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C = Capstone course |
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