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Alumni:  If we do not have your current address, please use the email link
         below to send us your current address. 

        We are also always interested in establishing clinical affiliation sites for
        our present students.  Please contact us using the links on the PT home page.

Post Professional DPT degree for graduates of our BS and MPT curriculum We will be unable to offer a post-professional DPT curriculum in collaboration the Graduate Center of CUNY that the Hunter College faculty consider acceptable.  Agreements are being developed with various post-professional (transitional) DPT programs to assist our graduates in meeting the needs of the physical therapy profession and for graduate physical therapists who wish to upgrade to the DPT Degree.  The following agreements are presently available: 1.  An articulation has been established with Des Moines University (DMU)  http://www.dmu.edu/chs/ppdpt/  whereby graduates of our MPT program who meet their admission requirements: will have the DMU application fee waived, DMU will waive PPDT 1608 (Clinical Medicine, 3 credit hours), DMU will waive PPDT 1605 (Clinical Imaging & Pharmacology (2 credit hours), Students will be required to complete the remaining 18 credits to earn a degree from DMU. 2.  An agreement has been established with Stony Brook University (SBU) http://inf-web.informatics.sunysb.edu/shtm/shtm_pt_transdoc.cfm, an onsite evening and weekend program whereby graduates of our MPT program who meet their admission requirements:  SBU will waive HAY 529 Principles in Pharmacology (4 credits)  SBU will waive HAY 530 Differential Diagnosis (3 credits)  SBU will waive HAY 551 Research Design (3 credits)  Students will be required to complete the remaining 20 credits, 5       core courses and 3 elective courses, to earn a degree from SBU.

The National Physical Therapy Examination The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy is the organization that produces and distributes the licensing examination for all Physical Therapists. Information about the content of the exam is provided in booklets distributed each year to students in the final year of the program when the application forms for the exam and New York State licensure applications are distributed. You can also obtain information about the content of the exam, purchase a sample review copy of the exam, and review other information about the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy by going to their web site: http://www.fsbpt.org/

New York State Education Department Office of the Professions Physical Therapist Licensing Application Forms (ex: Form 2, which must     be completed and returned to Dr. Krasilovsky before graduation.                http://www.op.nysed.gov/ptforms.htm Instructions for applying for the licensure examination in New York State: All forms and instructions are distributed to students in the Fall semester of your last year.  Some aspects of registering for the licensing examination must be done online.  A summary page of the process is available here -->  Licensure process

Index of Newsletters sent to Alumni Anyone may access these newsletters. If you are an alumni, and would like to be included on our mailing list, please send an email to: mdunham@hunter.cuny.edu. Be sure to include the year you graduated, and indicate you graduated from the Physical Therapy Program. Newsletter, Fall 2007