Let's Talk Rehab

Episode 7 - Student Debt: Facts you should know

Season 1 Episode 7

It been a while! Here is the newest episode tackling the startling student debt the physical therapy profession is cursed with. What facts should you be aware of? What are you doing or not doing that may change the way you look at your debt? This episode gives facts and opinions about the profession's current situation.  With a topic so broad and controversial we though it was important to provide some fair content.
As promised if you look below you will find the references we used for the information that was discussed.


  • Ambler, Steve. “The Debt Burden of Entry-Level Physical Therapists.” Physical Therapy, April 2020. https://academic. oup.com/ptj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ptj/pzz179/5651322?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Research. Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding, Q1 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLOAS#0.  
  • American Physical Therapy Association. Impact of Student Debt on the Physical Therapy profession. https://www.apta.org/contentassets/ee2d1bb7f9d841c983d0f21bb076bb79/impact-of-student-debt-report.pdf
  • Jannenga H. 2018. Debt and the DPT: What Went Wrong? https://evidenceinmotion.com/debt-and-the-dpt-what-went-wrong/
  • Hornsby T. 2019. Expensive Physical Therapy Loans: PTs are Getting Smacked! https://www.studentloanplanner.com/expensive-physical-therapy-student-loans/


Music
Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.lo/song/3742-fearless-first
License: http://creativecommons.org/license/by/4.0

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