Innovation. Respect. Collaboration.
These features are embedded throughout our academic and scholarly activities and lived by our faculty and students.
The MGH Institute of Health Professions Department of Physical Therapy provides students unparalleled opportunity to play an increasingly vital role in helping patients restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and limit permanent physical disabilities resulting from injury or disease.
Our faculty are leaders, innovators, clinicians, and scholars. We strive to prepare our students to be part of patient/client-centered, interprofessional practice in a dynamic and diverse healthcare environment. Prepare for leadership in education, clinical practice, scholarship, professional service, and community engagement. Join us and begin your journey to become tomorrow’s physical therapist.
Unparalleled opportunity
Interprofessional Approach
We offer an interprofessional mix of contemporary, evidence-based academics, clinical research, and clinical experience. Special emphasis is paid to critical inquiry, clinical science, and case analysis – crucial skills for physical therapists in today's complex and demanding healthcare environment.
9th Ranked Program in the Country
PT Research & Scholarship
Physical Therapy Leadership
Our faculty, a majority of whom are practicing clinicians in leading hospitals and health care centers, bring real-life cases and integrate their research into the classroom and clinical settings to provide students with the most up-to-date information that will help them become better physical therapists.
Director of Clinical Education Assistant Professor Physical Therapy
- dapplebaum@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-6924
- Shouse - 407
Assistant Professor Director of Student Support and Activities Physical Therapy
Assistant Professor Director of Student Support and Activities Physical Therapy
- jbaldwin@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-2230
- Shouse - 416
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Professor Director of Curriculum Coordinator of the Clinical Residency in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Professor Director of Curriculum Coordinator of the Clinical Residency in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy
- knaidoo@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-4848
- Shouse - 409
Interim Dean, School of Healthcare Leadership Physical Therapy Chair Associate Professor
Interim Dean, School of Healthcare Leadership Physical Therapy Chair Associate Professor
- lplummer@mghihp.edu
- (617) 643-6324
- Shouse - 413
CAPTE Accreditation
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The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at MGH Institute of Health Professions is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 3030 Potomac Ave., Suite 100, Alexandria, Virginia 22305-3085; telephone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation [at] apta.org; website: www.capteonline.org. If needing to contact the program/institution directly, please call 617-726-8099 or email pt [at] mghihp.edu. |
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Innovation. Excellence. Leadership. Three words that capture our department’s traditions and aspirations. These features are embedded throughout our academic and scholarly activities and lived by our faculty and students.
Innovation. Excellence. Leadership. Three words that capture our department’s traditions and aspirations. These features are embedded throughout our academic and scholarly activities and lived by our faculty and students.
- pt@mghihp.edu
- (617) 726-8009
- Catherine Filene Shouse Building 36