New Application Process:

All applicants applying to the Missouri State University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program must submit their application through the PTCAS (www.ptcas.org). 

The Department of Physical Therapy welcomes you and invites your feedback on how we can improve our website to serve you better.

Our program is somewhat unique in that the curriculum emphasizes the importance of values and professional behavior.  We believe that values drive behavior and thus we have selected ten core values that we believe are essential to professional behavior.  We also believe that professional behaviors are fundamental to the most effective application of cognitive knowledge and clinical psychomotor skills.  Therefore, our curriculum has been designed with an “affective” foundational core.  Principles and applications of values and professional behaviors are interwoven in courses throughout the foundational sciences, clinical sciences, behavioral sciences, clinical practice, and research.  Throughout the curriculum, the student is provided with many opportunities to develop professional behavior during interactive lectures, small group discussions, group projects, laboratory sessions, laboratory practical examinations, full-time clinical internships, and interactions with peers and faculty.

The “affective” foundational core is vital to the Program because it is congruent with the overall Mission of Missouri State University, specifically the Public Affairs Mission to: 

 “ …develop citizens of enhanced character, more sensitive to the needs of the community, more competent and committed in their ability to contribute to society, and more civil in their habits of thought speech and action….”