Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Research Methods
Research Methods is the course that teaches you how knowledge is created, tested, and validated. Physical therapy is an evidence-based profession, which means e…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Sociology
Sociology is the prerequisite that teaches you to see beyond the individual patient to the systems that shape their health. The World Health Organization define…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Nutrition
Nutrition is increasingly recognized as a critical factor in physical therapy outcomes. While not universally required as a standalone prerequisite, many DPT pr…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in English Composition
English Composition is the prerequisite students are most likely to undervalue. It does not have the obvious clinical connection of anatomy or physiology. But p…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology is the course that gives you the language of healthcare. Every evaluation you write, every patient chart you read, every conversation you ha…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Exercise Physiology
Exercise Physiology is arguably the most directly relevant prerequisite for DPT programs. Physical therapists prescribe exercise as their primary intervention, …
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Microbiology
Microbiology is the prerequisite that connects most directly to patient safety. Physical therapists have frequent, prolonged physical contact with patients, wor…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology (often called Lifespan Development) covers human development from conception through death. For pre-PT students, this course is uniquel…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology is the course where you learn to recognize, classify, and understand psychological disorders. For pre-PT students, this is not just academic…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Psychology is the prerequisite that students most often dismiss as "easy" and later wish they had taken more seriously. Unlike chemistry or phys…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Statistics
Statistics is the prerequisite that most students underestimate and most practicing PTs wish they had taken more seriously. Unlike chemistry or physics, statist…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Physics II
Physics II shifts from the mechanics of Physics I into an entirely different domain: electricity, magnetism, waves, and optics. Many pre-PT students find this s…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in General Chemistry II
General Chemistry II picks up where Gen Chem I left off and shifts from describing what matter is to explaining what matter does. The topics are more abstract a…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Physics I (Mechanics)
Physics I (Mechanics) is one of the most important prerequisites for DPT programs, and it is also one of the most challenging. Most programs require two semeste…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in General Chemistry I
General Chemistry I is often the prerequisite that causes the most anxiety for pre-PT students. It is quantitative, fast-paced, and builds on itself relentlessl…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Organismal Biology
Organismal Biology (often labeled General Biology II) is the course that zooms out from cells and molecules to whole organisms, populations, and ecosystems. Mos…
Study Saturday: Conquering General Biology I
General Biology I is the course that introduces the molecular and cellular foundations of life. For DPT applicants, it is a required prerequisite at nearly ever…
Study Saturday: How to Succeed in Human Physiology
Human physiology is the prerequisite that most directly prepares you for DPT coursework. Understanding how the body maintains homeostasis across every organ sys…