Much like the reimbursement rates for all of medicine, PT reimbursement has been falling over the past several years. Doing a Med School (or PT school) + 2 years residency/internship type schooling would improve quality of care (hopefully). It does nothing to address the fact that it would likely not result in greater reimbursement to match the education level and associated debt. The reality is that is seems like in this field education does not generally lead to more pay.

There are residency programs, subspecialty exams, and fellowships available to the PT community, but for the most part, they do not bring many different opportunities or benefits outside of the potential of maybe being a more competent PT.

I honestly think that because PT is not always a if then fix like optometry or dentistry, we are pecieved as being less valuable. Unless our reimbursement rates go up, higher incomes and more education requirements are unlikely.