Hi, everyone! Add these dates to your calendars! We have a lot of exciting things coming up, so get pumped for an awesome semester!

Pre-Health Check-Up: THIS Saturday, 9/10 11-12:30pm at Duke Children’s Hospital Lobby

This is an event geared toward any pre-health students that will feature of panel of health professionals who will answer questions about their respective careers. Our sponsor, Rosie Canizares, will be speaking at this! Meet at 10:40 at the Davison Building if you aren’t sure how to get to the Children’s Hospital from campus.

First General Body Meeting: Tuesday, 9/13 6:30pm in Wilson 018
We’re excited to meet you all! Grab some dinner and head to Wilson Gym for our first meeting as a pre-PT association for an overview of the PT field, and to help us brainstorm some of the great ideas you have for this coming year. Open to everyone- all current members and those interested in PT!

DPT 5K: Saturday, 10/1 at Wallace Wade Stadium
http://www.active.com/running/durham-nc/duke-dpt-5k-2011?int=29-6

Duke DPT Info Session: Tuesday, 10/18 5:30pm at Erwin Square

Join us as we hear from some faculty and students at the Duke DPT school about the admissions process and Duke’s DPT program. More details coming on that one.

Also, make sure to join our Facebook group “Duke Alums in Physical Therapy”!

Get excited, pre-pt kids! There will now be a PT (Duke ’83, Emory PT ’85, currently pediatric neuro PT at Lenox Baker) on the neuro panel on April 7th. If you’re interested in the neuro PT world, you should definitely come!

Health Career Exploration Series featuring PT

Wed 3/16 – 6:30 – Faculty Commons

Sports Med Panel with Duke alums who are DPT, MD, and DO

Wed 3/23 – 7:30 – K Center

Duke DPT Diversity Task Force Open House

Tues 3/29 – 6-8 – Duke DPT School (above Parizades)

Neuro Panel with Duke alums who are MD, PA, and SLP

Thurs 4/7 – 6:30 – 139 Social Science

Who: Duke Pre-PT Association

What: General Body Meeting

When: Monday  21st at 7:30

Where: Multicultural Center (bottom floor of the Bryan Center).

Why: Info about classes, volunteering, summer opportunities, and research.  Meet other students and get your questions answered. Plus, refreshments will be provided!

Hope to see you there!

Get the inside scoop on applying to physical therapy school. Annie Keener and Leigh Welsh are in the midst of the application process and will share their experiences and answer any questions you may have about applying!

November 17th

8pm

Multicultural Center, conference room on the left

Please RSVP on our Facebook group by November 8, so we can plan for refreshments.  🙂  RSVP here:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167801839905695&num_event_invites=0

To our new members, we are so glad you have joined us! I hope you find this website helpful – enjoy exploring and getting acquainted with it. If there’s anything you want to see on it or resources you would like, let us know so we can try to add them.

Here’s what we have scheduled on the calendar so far:
Tomorrow (Tuesday) 9/14: Dinner at the Loop, 8pm
Come meet other students interested in PT!

Wednesday 9/22: Sports Med Panel, BioSci 111, 6:30pm
Learn more about PT related to sports, as well as other professions in the sports med field.

Thursday 9/30: General Info Meeting, Wilson Gym 018, 8pm
Learn about everything we do as the Pre-PT Association.

Hope to see you there!

American Hippotherapy Association, North Carolina

“The association promotes the use of the movement of the horse as a treatment strategy in
physical, occupational and speech therapy sessions for people living with disabilities.
Monitors legislation, insurance and health care trends that impact the provision of
hippotherapy.”

Contact: Osborne, Marybeth
Address: 101 Braden Ct. Durham, NC 27713
Phone: (919) 361-9547
Email: mbao@nc.rr.com

NC Therapeutic Riding Center

Check out their website (http://www.nctrcriders.org) for more information, but here’s a little blurb:

NCTRC exists to empower children and adults with physical, emotional, mental and social
challenges to create active, healthier, and more fulfilling lives through equine-assisted
activities and therapies (EAAT).

For those who are interested in assisting with riding classes, we offer volunteer
orientations before the start of each of 6-10 week session. Lesson volunteers work
directly with our riders and horses in class. Responsibilities include:
* helping in the arena as horse leaders and sidewalkers
* providing horse care, and
* doing barn chores.

Contact: Diane Stranahan (volunteer coordinator)

Phone: (919) 304-1009

Email: volunteer@nctrcriders.org

If you’ll be in the area this summer and are looking for something to do that’s a very small time commitment, consider volunteering at Abilitations. Abilitations is a Children’s Therapy and Wellness Center in Raleigh, and they do some really cool things with kids. Check out their website:  http://www.actwc.com/index.html.

They are looking for volunteers to help out with their summer musical. The dates are June 11-July 16th on Fridays only from 12:30-1:30. If you’re interested, email T.R. Goins- her email is on the website.

Come talk to DPT students about their experiences and ask questions to figure out what you need to prepare yourself for PT school. We’re lucky to have students and recent grads representing four different DPT programs:

Brent Henderly (william.henderly@duke.edu)- Elon ’06, Elon DPT ‘09

Bonnijane Monson (hnanegra@hotmail.com)- Brigham Young ’06, Utah DPT ‘10

Mary Sparks (mary_sparks@med.unc.edu)- UNC-Asheville ’06, UNC DPT ‘12

Laura Stanley (lstan84@gmail.com)- Trinity ’06, Duke DPT ‘10

Thursday April 15th / 7:30 pm / K Center Classroom 232 (behind Cameron)