Doctor of Physical Therapy Program Records, 1920-2018
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Summary
- Creator:
- Duke University. Department of Physical Therapy.
- Abstract:
- The Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Duke University began as a post-baccalaureate certificate program originally offered by the School of Medicine in 1943. Helen L. Kaiser was brought on by Dr. Lenox Baker to help establish the program and serve as the first Director of Physical Therapy and Associate Professor of Physical Therapy. The program was officially elevated to a Master of Science degree in 1970. In 1998, the Physical Therapy course was lengthened to three years and the Master of Science degree was replaced by the Doctor of Physical Therapy. This collection contains planning files, schedules, syllabi, correspondence, budget records, meeting agendas and notes, research, calendars, admissions policies and statistics, survey results, grading policies, meeting minutes, student handbooks, booklets, student and alumni publications, newsletters, studies, reprints, transcripts, questionnaire results, presentation and lecture materials, audiovisual recordings of events, interviews, anniversary projects, orientation and graduation materials, blank copies of examinations, on-site evaluations, outcome assessments, site team responses, and photographic materials pertaining to the graduate program in Physical Therapy at Duke. Major subjects include courses, ongoing curriculum development, national accreditation, faculty records, publications, and papers collected by department chair Robert Bartlett for the graduate program in physical therapy at Duke University. Materials range in date from 1920 to 2018.
- Extent:
- 27.5 Linear Feet (17 cartons, 2 manuscript boxes, and 2 flat boxes) and 15.0 GB
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- AR.0158
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- Scope and content:
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Contains materials related to the history of the graduate program in physical therapy at Duke University and its development into the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Types of materials include planning files, schedules, syllabi, correspondence, budget records, meeting agenda and notes, research, calendars, admissions policies and statistics, survey results, grading policies, meeting minutes, student handbooks, booklets, student and alumni publications, newsletters, studies, reprints, transcripts, questionnaire results, presentation and lecture materials, audiovisual recordings of events, interviews, anniversary projects, orientation and graduation materials, blank copies of examinations, on-site evaluations, outcome assessments, site team responses, and photographic materials. Major subjects include courses, ongoing curriculum development, national accreditation, faculty records, publications, and papers collected by department chair Robert Bartlett for the graduate program in physical therapy at Duke University. Materials range in date from 1920 to 2018.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Duke University began as a post-baccalaureate certificate program originally offered by the School of Medicine in 1943. Helen L. Kaiser, the Chief Physical Therapist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, was brought on by Dr. Lenox Baker to help establish the program and serve as the first Director of Physical Therapy and Associate Professor of Physical Therapy in June of that year. The program initially served four students as part of a nine-month emergency war training course in Physical Therapy. In 1944, the Physical Therapy certificate program expanded to classes of ten students in addition to interested medical and nursing students.
The length of the program was increased to twelve months in 1945 and fifteen months in 1948. In 1951, graduate students in Physical Therapy were invited to participate in a six-month course in Psychosomatic Aspects of Physical Therapy in addition to the mainstream Physical Therapy certification program. From 1952 until the split of the Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy departments in 1954, Occupational Therapy students were included in the certificate program as well. In 1957, enrollment expanded to twenty-four students. Beginning in 1958, Physical Therapy students were also allowed to earn up to fifteen credits towards a Master of Arts degree in anatomy and physiology while participating in the certificate program. The Physical Therapy program also became one of the first to educate students using closed circuit television in 1960. In 1970, the program was officially elevated to a Master of Science degree.
The same year, Helen Kaiser formally retired from her Department of Physical Therapy position after twenty-seven years of service. In 1971, Jane Matthews became the new chair. Robert Bartlett was later appointed to this position in 1976 and remained the Physical Therapy chair for over twenty years before being succeeded by Jan Richardson in 1997. All four of these chairs served terms as president of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Under Richardson's leadership, the Physical Therapy course was lengthened to three years and the Master of Science degree was replaced by the Doctor of Physical Therapy in 1998. - Acquisition information:
- A2019.027 (transferred by Jan Gwyer, December 2018)
- Processing information:
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Processed by McKenzie Long under the supervision of Lucy Waldrop: May 2019
- Arrangement:
- Organized into the following series: Curriculum Records, 1943-2011; Accreditation Files, 1970-2004; Faculty Records, 1962-2004; Publications, 1951-2018; Physical Therapy Archives Project, 1920-2017; Robert Bartlett Papers, 1947-1999; Photographic Materials, 1942-2019; Restricted, 1943-2003.
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- DACS
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- Personal Name(s):
- Kaiser, Helen
Bartlett, Robert C.
Branch, Eleanor F. - Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Medicine
Duke University. Department of Physical Therapy - Topical Term(s):
- Physical Therapy Specialty.
Faculty.
Students, Medical.
Curriculum.
Physical Therapists.
Occupational Therapy.
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This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
Contains Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975). - Terms of access:
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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[Identification of item], Doctor of Physical Therapy Program Records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.