The investigation of the effectiveness on the educational procedure development for physical therapist assistant in Quang Tri province of Vietnam.
JinWon Noh, Min Hee Kim, Ki-Bong Yoo and 1 others
PMID 28932002WHAT IT FOUND
Ten lecturers in Vietnam reported high satisfaction and improved self-rated knowledge after training on a new physical therapy curriculum.
They rated their understanding of therapeutic exercise and joint measurement as significantly better after the course.
Key findings
01Lecturers reported high satisfaction with the educational procedure, particularly regarding the instructor and the learning environment.
02Self-rated understanding of physical therapy concepts improved significantly in all five domains after the education.
03The largest improvement in perceived knowledge was in distinguishing between types of therapeutic exercise.
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What it does not show
The study included only ten participants, all of whom were lecturers rather than students or patients. Knowledge outcomes were based on self-reported confidence in understanding, not on objective tests of clinical competence. There was no control group, so it is unclear if the improvements were due to the specific curriculum or simply the effect of receiving any training. The study was conducted in a specific low-resource context in Vietnam, limiting generalizability to other settings.
Declared interests
The study was conducted in cooperation with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), but no specific financial conflicts of interest were declared by the authors.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the high satisfaction and self-reported knowledge gains as evidence that the curriculum produces competent physical therapist assistants. The study measured the opinions of ten lecturers about the course, not the clinical skills of students or patient outcomes.