The department provides progressive clinical education experiences as follows:
- Level I Integrated Clinical Experiences
These experiences occur concurrently with academic coursework across a semester. Students work in pairs with a clinical instructor, applying skills and carrying out components of care that they are learning in the classroom
- Level II Full Time Clinical Education
These full time 12 week experiences occur after the completion of all academic coursework. Over their experience, students work to meet progressive levels of skill, independence and productivity that are outlined and reviewed on a weekly basis.
- Advanced Doctoral Experiences (ADE)
The final semester of a growing number of DOT programs includes completion of an Advanced Doctoral Experience (ADE). The goal of the ADE is to support students in developing advanced skills in one or more areas of focus including; research, advanced clinical expertise, community program development, teaching and advocacy. In advance of the ADE, students identify a topic of interest and along with academic and clinical faculty develop a proposal and implementation plan that can be carried out over the course of the ADE semester.