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I have the utmost appreciation and gratitude for all of my CIs and mentors for guiding me throughout my career as a student and facilitating experiences for me to learn from.
My two CIs (Dr. Tressia Roberts and Dr. Aria Bentley) and I.
Clinical 1
Clinical 1
I spent the summer (May 13th – June 21st, 2024) at Franciscan Health in Crawfordsville Indiana in the inpatient acute care setting. However, I was also able to experience the outpatient setting as well because there is a clinic within the hospital that accepts outpatients. I saw inpatients in the morning and outpatients in the afternoon. This experience has helped me to get over my initial fear of working with people in a hospital setting. The sheer volume of patients that I have seen has helped me understand that there is always another opportunity to get things right if I get them wrong at first with a patient. This rotation also showed me an interest that I have in working with post-stroke patients and their families. Something special about this setting is the opportunity to work in a Geriatric memory care unit that they called Generations. Lastly, this clinical experience gave me a lot of experience with Telehealth by doing co-treatments with an OT that we contacted through an iPad that we wheeled to the different patient rooms. This service was mostly used in the inpatient setting, but we also used the iPads to communicate with translators for our deaf and non-English speaking patients.
Clinical 2
Clinical 2
I spent the summer (June 30th-August 22nd, 2025) at PT Solutions in Anderson, IN, inside the Central Indiana Orthopedics center. This was an outpatient orthopedic setting, which allowed me to evaluate and treat people of many ages and many different joints. I had the opportunity to hone my skills while evaluating patients, perform reassessments, and discharge patients. I learned a lot from my CI, Dr. Henry Iraheta, and all the other clinicians at the site and can confidently say that I am a better clinician because of them. I also really appreciate the welcoming environment they created for me throughout those 8 weeks. I especially learned that every clinician has their own treatment style and way of interpreting CPT codes. Lastly, I learned a lot about the difference in billing between federal insurance and commercial insurances which I was grateful to be exposed too as I have not had prior knowledge of these nuances.
I also had the opportunity to give an in-service over the way PTs and OTs can affect psychological resilience and thus promote better outcomes in patients. Through researching for this presentation, I learned the importance of catering to the psychological as well as the physical needs of my future patients.
My CI, Dr. Henry Iraheta, and I
My CI, Dr. Michael May, and I
Clinical 3
Clinical 3
I spent part of the Spring (January 5th-February 27th, 2026) at an IU-Health outpatient facility in Carmel, Indiana. During this clinical I learned and practiced a lot of different manual therapy techniques and refined my ability to prescribe, progress and regress exercise prescriptions. I also learned a lot about the discharge process and how to have that conversation with patients. This one-on-one patient-to-therapist model gave me adequate time to get my notes done each day. I learned a lot from my CI, Dr. Michael May, especially about how to differentially diagnose and select exercises to maximally benefit patients with certain diagnoses. I greatly appreciate all of the clinicians at this site for taking the time to meet me and give me advice about practicing or studying for the NPTE or how to manage all of the things surrounding graduating PT school.
I also had the opportunity to give an in-service over common injures that swimmers have, how to use a screening tool the I created, and specific exercises to treat swimmers if they have them in the future. It was wonderful to be able to share my knowledge of swimming and common compensations that swimmers have with other clinicians.
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