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Janet Lynn Gwyer

Janet Lynn Gwyer

Professor Emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
janet.gwyer@duke.edu
Box 3907 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
054 Hosp South, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

EDUCATING Physical Therapists

Book · January 1, 2024 The Preparation for the Professions Program by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching focused on education in five professions (clergy, law, engineering, nursing, and medicine), but its influence has been felt throughout higher education a ... Full text Cite

National Study of Excellence and Innovation in Physical Therapist Education: Part 2-A Call to Reform.

Journal Article Phys Ther · September 1, 2017 This perspective shares recommendations that draw from (1) the National Study of Excellence and Innovation in Physical Therapist Education research findings and a conceptual model of excellence in physical therapist education, (2) the Carnegie Foundation's ... Full text Link to item Cite

National Study of Excellence and Innovation in Physical Therapist Education: Part 1-Design, Method, and Results.

Journal Article Phys Ther · September 1, 2017 BACKGROUND: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching commissioned the Preparation for the Professions Program, a qualitative study of professional education in 5 professions: medicine, nursing, law, engineering, and clergy. These studies ide ... Full text Link to item Cite

Methods for Exploring Expertise

Chapter · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Preface

Journal Article Expertise in Physical Therapy Practice · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Competence and complacency.

Journal Article Phys Ther · May 2000 Link to item Cite

Expert practice in physical therapy.

Journal Article Phys Ther · January 2000 Featured Publication BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the dimensions of clinical expertise in physical therapy practice across 4 clinical specialty areas: geriatrics, neurology, orthopedics, and pediatrics. SUBJECTS: Subjects were 1 ... Link to item Cite

Describing expert practice in physical therapy.

Journal Article Qual Health Res · November 1999 Featured Publication In this article, the authors demonstrate how grounded theory may be used to develop models for understanding clinical practice. Through a series of research studies involving novice, experienced, and expert physical therapy practitioners, conceptual framew ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measurement characteristics and sources of measurement error

Journal Article Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics · January 1, 1995 Orthotic and prosthetic clinicians make clinical decisions daily that affect their patients’ lives and the resources of the health-care system. These decisions are largely based on information gained taking clinical measurements of patient characteristics. ... Full text Cite

Personnel resources in physical therapy: an analysis of supply, career patterns, and methods to enhance availability.

Journal Article Phys Ther · January 1995 Featured Publication Describing the ever-changing supply and demand for physical therapy personnel in the United States is an intricate, complex, and profoundly significant task for the profession. In this article, a review of data relating to the supply of physical therapy pe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alternative approaches to research in physical therapy: positivism and phenomenology.

Journal Article Phys Ther · February 1993 Featured Publication This article presents philosophical approaches to research in physical therapy. A comparison is made to demonstrate how the research purpose, research design, research methods, and research data differ when one approaches research from the philosophical pe ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of the prospective payment system: perceived changes in the nature of practice and clinical education.

Journal Article Phys Ther · January 1993 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Health care financing for teaching hospitals has undergone significant change in the past decade. This report describes changes in physical therapy practice and clinical education in three New England hospitals from 1984 to 1988. SU ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attribute dimensions that distinguish master and novice physical therapy clinicians in orthopedic settings.

Journal Article Phys Ther · October 1992 Featured Publication The purpose of this qualitative case study was to further investigate the work of master and novice clinicians within the practice setting. The sample consisted of three master clinicians and three novice clinicians practicing in orthopedic outpatient phys ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chapter 3: Designing and implementing Research on the development editions of the test

Journal Article Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics · January 1, 1989 Full text Cite

Designing and implementing research on the development editions of the test

Journal Article Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics · 1989 Having completed a Development Edition phase, the test developer will have compiled information to: evaluate all test administration and scoring procedures and make necessary revisions; evaluate each test item and retain the best ones; and begin to evaluat ... Cite

OVERVIEW OF CLINICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED-STATES

Journal Article PHYSICAL THERAPY · May 1, 1988 Link to item Cite

ATTRITION FROM PHYSICAL THERAPY CLINICAL-PRACTICE

Journal Article PHYSICAL THERAPY · May 1, 1987 Link to item Cite

Selection of clinical education centers in physical therapy.

Journal Article J Allied Health · November 1982 With the growing importance placed on the clinical portion of the educational preparation of health care professionals, standards with which to evaluate potential clinical education centers are needed. The primary purpose of the two-year Project on Selecti ... Link to item Cite

Evaluation of clinical education centers in physical therapy.

Journal Article Phys Ther · June 1982 The purpose of this research was to test a set of 20 physical therapy clinical education standards and three related evaluation forms that were published in 1976 by Moore and Perry. Mail questionnaires and telephone interviews with 134 Academic Coordinator ... Full text Link to item Cite

The history of clinical education in physical therapy in the United States.

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Teaching evidence-based practice in physical therapist education.

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