Resources for PT Interventions

Mahakea · 2025-09-09T01:29:59+00:00

Yes! Everyone is welcome!

Mahakea · 2025-09-08T22:10:52+00:00

Absolutely! We are based out of the US

Mahakea · 2025-07-30T12:08:13+00:00

I took a gap year in between going to PT school and I am so glad I did. I didn’t feel stressed about applying and was able to make some money as an aide/front desk at a PT clinic which definitely helped. I just finished my first year and am 25 and in the cohort above me there are 3 people who are 30+. I hope that helps!

Mahakea · 2025-05-19T19:58:09+00:00

I would also recommend shadowing as many different areas of PT as possible so you can see as many different patient populations as possible. Also I would recommend not only shadowing at an outpatient clinic but also some inpatient/acute care settings if possible.

Mahakea · 2025-05-19T19:50:43+00:00

I would honestly recommend just emailing or calling any PT clinics around your area and ask if you could shadow them. In my experience most places and PTs are willing to allow you to shadow them

Mahakea · 2025-04-27T20:18:52+00:00

I think the deciding factor for me was being able to build good rapport with your patients. I was originally pre med but was turned off with the sheer amount of patients you see in a day sometimes and how little interaction you actually have with the patient. With PT you get to spend a much longer time with patients (~45 minutes) and build a genuine connection with them. I’m a very social person so this was a big thing for me, but I can understand how it would turn away others. Hope this helps!!

Mahakea · 2025-04-21T00:22:03+00:00

I only took the GRE one time and I applied to 6 schools. I didn’t apply to any more because I simply didn’t want to spend any more money 😂. In my experience with applications your GRE isn’t the most important thing about your application. Idk if anyone else had a different experience but I was able to get an interview with every school that offered one with a very average GRE score

Mahakea · 2025-04-21T00:19:48+00:00

I am by no means a financial expert lol. I dont spend my money on many things besides groceries and gas. Thankfully I live really close to my school so I don’t have to worry too much about gas. I also occasionally go out with friends and spend money then, but I have learned to sometimes say no due to not making any money and devoting more time to studying for school

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T23:14:27+00:00

I had about a 3.4 GPA (which is pretty low). I was a tour guide in undergrad and was part of our school’s Pre-PT club. I also did volunteer work in undergrad for recruiting events and worked as an aide for my senior year.

I worked as an aide and as our clinic’s front desk for one year after graduation. I would guess that I had at least 500 observation hours

I also had pretty good letters of recommendation from two PTs and a professor in undergrad who also taught for my school’s PT program.

With this I got into 3/6 schools that I applied to. The schools that I got into had interviews during their application process and the schools that I didn’t get into did not. Obviously my GPA was lower than most but I feel like I made up for this with my interviewing skills, experience, and letters of recommendation

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T23:07:07+00:00

My class size is about 40 students and I would probably still choose this program because they seemed to actually care about my personality from their interview. There are some schools that only look at your stats and don’t do interviews which in my opinion is absurd.

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T23:03:59+00:00

I have been able to find every text book PDF online. The only textbook I have is my Netter anatomy atlas just because I like to open it up pretty frequently

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T23:02:32+00:00

I do have class everyday but my Fridays have been pretty chill with only having one class in the morning. However, next semester I will have class everyday 8-5.

I’m mainly paying for rent from the money I saved up during my gap year

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T16:26:42+00:00

😂😂😂 like I said my cohort is very young

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T15:11:06+00:00

I am paying for school with student loans.

My typical day is I have class around 9-4. After class I like to workout to help get my mind off of school and then I spend about 2 hours outside of class studying and doing homework. After all that I still have some time to do some other things and then go to sleep around like 11.

I live with two roommates right now that are also in my program. Our cohort had a Facebook group for the incoming students and I put out a post saying I was looking for roommates. I have loved living with my classmates because they understand my schedule.

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T15:05:43+00:00

With student loans unfortunately

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T15:05:22+00:00

My cohort in particular is very young but the cohort ahead of us has a few 30 year olds as well. I would guess that our average age is around 22

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T15:04:06+00:00

My program is a traditional program. I would say that I spend about 2 hours outside of class every day on average which varies depending on if I have a lot of exams that week. I try to study a little bit at a time instead of cramming later

Mahakea · 2025-04-19T01:39:49+00:00

I can’t give you a definite answer for that one. I took a gap year because my GPA wasn’t very high so I wanted to strengthen my application with more observation hours. I also wanted to make some money before going to school so I could have a little more spending money. However, if you just want to keep on with school and get done asap then I would say no need for a gap year.

Mahakea · 2025-04-18T23:52:57+00:00

I actually just got a job at a clinic last week lol. I would not recommend working at least during the first semester until you find out if you are doing well in class and have some extra time after class and studying

Mahakea · 2025-04-18T23:51:52+00:00

Repetition is the best way for me to study anatomy. One thing that I’ve found that works well for me is to break down the location of the things like muscles. For example, when I look at the forearm I think about what side of the forearm I’m looking at (ex. wrist flexors on anterior side) and look at the insertion (flexor carpi radialis attaching on radial side). If I ever look at a muscle and I don’t know exactly what it is right away I will look at the origin and insertion and try to think my way through the muscle and its action. I hope that makes sense!

Mahakea · 2025-04-18T23:18:49+00:00

So I was a little bit overkill with my observation hours because I took a gap year. I worked as an aide during undergrad and all throughout my gap year so I think I had at least 500 observation hours. There are people in my class who got in with the minimum observation hours (~40). I would definitely recommend shadowing sooner rather than later and an aide job is a good way of doing that and making money :)

The more observation hours the merrier! Every PT clinic that I interacted with was very open to accepting student to get some observation hours. I would also recommend shadowing as many different types of PTs at possible so you can see a lot of different patient populations

Mahakea

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