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The Changing Context of Physical Therapy Practice: Helping Students Move Outside of the Box

&NA; The role of physical therapists in the clinic has changed drastically as demands on therapists have increased and the pace of practice has accelerated. The traditional organizational “box” that defined who physical therapists were and what they did has forever been altered as the restrictive boundaries around role function and geographic responsibility have been changed or removed altogether. Because of these changes, physical therapist students need to acquire and develop a different set of skills to fulfill their future role. The purpose of this article is to present how research and clinician input on role change have been used by the faculty at Arcadia University to inform curricular revision to help students acquire a greater breadth and level of competence in skills necessary for today's clinical practice. Five key areas of curricular content together with specific strategies to help students with skills acquisition and development are presented.