If you like to help people and want to work in the medical field, our Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program may be for you. The PTA program will prepare you to work, under the supervision of a physical therapist, with physically impaired persons to help reverse adverse effects of physical disability. The therapist and assistant work together to provide appropriate therapeutic intervention and communication within the health care team. You will learn to administer therapeutic and psychosocial support for individuals with musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, vascular or other physiological dysfunctions.
The Physical Therapist Assistant program is a selective program. When you apply to the college, you will be accepted into the undeclared program while you complete the prerequisite requirements. The physical therapist assistant program accepts a limited number of students each year and there is a separate application process. Contact your campus of interest below for more details.
SAMPLE CAREERS IN THIS FIELD: Physical Therapist Assistant
DEGREES AVAILABLE: Associate of Science. Availability of degrees varies by campus. Contact your local campus below for more information.
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE
Contact your campus of interest below to find out more about the Associate of Science transfer degree programs. Students are encouraged to review their options with their advisors, to consult the current catalog of the institution to which they wish to transfer, and to contact the institution to which they wish to transfer. Students may also contact the transfer office of their local Ivy Tech for further information.
To earn this degree, you must have 69.5-71.5 credits in the following areas:
- General Education Core: 25-27 credits
- Professional/Technical Core: 44.5 credits
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Students that apply for Summer 2011 admission and all applicants thereafter will be using the new admission/selection guidelines
CURRICULUM
View the curriculum for this program and all others currently available at Ivy Tech.
LOCATIONS
The Physical Therapist Assistant program is offered at the following campuses. Please click on the campus of interest below for contact and campus specific program information:
East Central (Anderson, Marion, Muncie, New Castle)
Northwest (East Chicago, Gary, Michigan City, Valparaiso)
Southern Indiana (Sellersburg)
Ivy Tech Community College, Sellersburg, has been granted Candidate for Accreditation status by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314; phone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org). Candidacy is not an accreditation status nor does it assure eventual accreditation. Candidate for Accreditation is a pre-accreditation status of affiliation with the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education that indicates the program is progressing toward accreditation.
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Contacts
Betsy Boyd
Administrative Assistant
812 246.3301 ext 4725
Kim Kruer, MPT
Program Chair
(812) 246-3301, Extension 4290
Mark Kinkle
Dean, School of Health Sciences
Pfau Hall
(812) 246-3301, Extension 4295
Candidate Handbook
(Admitted) Handbook
Application
