Have you come here looking for awesome clinical and career-related content? Well, you’re almost in the right place! NewGradPhysicalTherapy can now be found on CovalentCareers.com/resources. In March 2019, we will be sunsetting the NewGradPhysicalTherapy, NewGradOccupationalTherapy, and NewGradSpeechTherapy blogs and migrating all of their content and resources to our parent company website, CovalentCareers.com. For now, the social media pages for each new grad brand will remain live and active. The biggest reasons for this change? To provide our readers with higher quality content and n ..read more

Mentorship: the “hot” word on the street for new graduates looking to enter the job market. Yes, you can choose to apply for a residency and you will get plenty of one-on-one mentorship hours, but often times students are burnt out by the time the word “residency” rolls around and just want to start practicing what they have learned for the past 7 years. Many employers offer PT “mentorship,” only for you to find out the mentor either doesn’t provide hands-on learning opportunities or your schedule is too busy to squeeze in quality learning time. So how do we find it? How do we know the clinic ..read more

Imagine you are alone in a stranger’s room. The door is closed and locked, and your pants are off. Further, you agreed to let the person you just met work with a very intimate part of your anatomy. Physical therapists, this is the position in which our patients often find themselves. If you are a physical therapist specializing in pelvic floor dysfunction, or aspiring to, you need to read this. On February 5, 2018, Larry Nassar received his final sentencing for sexual assault. You may be familiar with the harrowing accounts of over 50 patients under the medical care of Nassar. In his role as a ..read more