P.H., Ph.D., dean of NSU's College of Allied Health. Graduates will be awarded an M.P.T. degree upon completion of graduation requirements, which includes a clinical internship and a research thesis, and will be eligible to take the professional licensing board examination in both the United States and Israel.
Students have the option of taking their clinical training in either the U.S. or in Israel.
Clinical education will be held at a number of sites, including Israel's finest hospitals. Physical therapists are health care professionals who work to diagnose, treat, and prevent movement dysfunction that results in physical impairment and disability. Physical therapists work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, school systems, and industrial settings. In addition, with the creation in recent years of specialty fields such as sports medicine, outpatient rehabilitation, neuroscience, home health care, and treatment of brain-injured patients, stroke victims, and amputees, the physical therapy profession continues to provide practitioners numerous opportunities for professional growth and advancement. The Florida Department of Labor recently ranked the physical therapy profession as the third fastest growing profession in the state of Florida through the year 2005.