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Volume 7: Student and CI Perspectives on the Updated CPI 3.0

Apr 24, 2026

At the midterm and conclusion of a student physical therapist’s clinical education experience, the student and clinical instructor must complete an assessment to measure the student’s skill development. In May 2023, the Clinical Performance Instrument 3.0 launched with an all new look and criteria. What do students, clinical education teams, and CIs think about this revamp? Hansen, et al. conducted an exploratory descriptive study to find out. Link here: Physical therapist student and clinical instructor perceptions of the Clinical Performance Instrument 3.0 (CPI 3.0): an exploratory descriptive study

JCEPT indexed in PubMedCentral!

Dec 18, 2025

JCEPT archives are now available from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) via PubMedCentral (PMC) at the link below.  

Thank you to all the contributing authors, reviewers, editors, and staff that are committed to developing and disseminating scholarship relevant to physical therapy clinical education. You helped make this a reality. 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/?term=%22J%20Clin%20Educ%20Phys%20Ther%22%5Bjour%5D

Volume 7: Is simulation-based education valuable for PT students?

Aug 16, 2025

Professionalism and communication are valuable skills necessary for a practicing physical therapist and are fostered during PT school. An early acquisition of these skills proves to be beneficial to a student's development, especially as they enter their clinical education rotations. Would simulation-based education integrated before a student's first clinical education experience boost their perceived skillset? Young et al use a retrospective exploratory study to analyze 73 first-year students' professional development with the modified Gap-Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Form. Use this link to read more on their findings: The relationship between physical therapy students’ communication skills during a standardized patient examination and professionalism domain performance on a first full-time clinical experience: an exploratory cohort study.

Volume 7 continued: Are you "people-oriented" or "gregarious"?

Apr 28, 2025

Are you interested in applying for physical therapy residency programs? What characteristics are associated with a successful physical therapy resident? Geist et al. conducted an observational cohort study on the valid, reliable, or prediction association between residents' personality traits and clinical performance. Using personality traits may help determine whether a resident will be better prepared for the expectation of clinical productivity and performance. Here's the link: https://doi.org/10.52214/jcept.v7.12377.

 

First publication of Volume 7: Exploring SPT diagnostic reasoning, self-efficacy, and clinical reasoning

Apr 24, 2025

Student clinical reasoning (CR) is a vital skill to develop prior to clinical experiences to optimize safe and effective patient care. As the first publication of Volume 7 (2025), Cunningham et al. explores the progression of CR in physical therapy students over the course of their didactic education. What did they find? Click here to find out: https://doi.org/10.52214/jcept.v7.12901

 

Most viewed article this fall

Dec 9, 2024

Are your students stressed too? The most viewed JCEPT article this fall has been Drs. Lisa Dutton's and Christina Anderson's article "Physical therapy students' perceived levels and sources of stress during clinical education experiences" accessed here