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Selecting Under-represented
Cohorts & Creating
Enhancement Skills & Scholastic
Achievements in Physical Therapy
(SUCCESS-PT)
Project Director: Alexis Ortiz, PT, PhD, SCS, CSCS
Co-PD: Wayne Brewer, PT, PhD, MPH, OCS, CSCS
Goals of the Program
Goal 1: Improve outreach & recruitment in Texas universities
serving high number of under-represented minority students.
Goal 2: Develop an aggressive and guided admission,
matriculation, and orientation plan.
Goal 3: Develop an aggressive and guided retention plan during
the 1st year of the curriculum.
Goal 4: Increase exposure to minority health clinical & research
opportunities.
Recruitment Strategies
Goal 1: Improve outreach & recruitment in Texas universities
serving high number of under-represented minority students.
RECRUITMENT
Project Directors will visit partnering Institutions with two underrepresented DPT students.
Orientation regarding admission process.
Round table and open discussion with Project Directors and
students from under-represented minority backgrounds.
Identify with undergraduate advisors/mentors students interested in
PT meeting admission criteria who are ready to apply.
Recruitment Strategies
Goal 1: Improve outreach & recruitment in Texas universities
serving high number of under-represented minority students.
CONTINUE CONTACTS
In conjunction with mentors/advisors Project Directors will help
prospective applicants to build a strong profile/application.
Students identified by mentors/advisors and Project Directors will
be invited to visit TWU-Houston campus.
Retention Strategies
Goal 2: Develop an aggressive and guided admission,
matriculation, and orientation plan.
Project Directors and Office of Student Life will help selected
applicants through the process of housing, financial aid application,
and other ancillary services needed.
Retention Strategies
Goal 3: Develop an aggressive and guided retention plan during
the 1st year of the curriculum.
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Peer-mentors from 2nd & 3rd year DPT Program: Will assist students
with review of didactic component, hands-on practical experiences,
mock exams/quizzes, study habits, and social support.
Monthly mentorship activities: monthly activity between selected
students, peer-mentors, Project Directors, and Office of Student
Life. Activities to be planned will be comprised of:
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conflict resolution
loan repayment options
stress
•budgeting
•family balance
•etc.
Monthly seminar with under-represented TWU alumni practicing as
physical therapists.
Retention Strategies
Goal 4: Increase exposure to minority health clinical & research
opportunities.
Support attendance to TACSM, TPTA, CSM, ACSM.
Experiential learning activities in Institutions traditionally serving
minority health population such as Harris Health, MDACC, among
others.
Develop critical inquiry projects in areas targeting minority-health
issues.