Latest Departmental News

Spring 2025 Iowa DPT Q&A Sessions
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Spring 2025 Question & Answer Sessions for the University of Iowa Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program
Q&A: Jacob Norton, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Q&A: Alex Lewis, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Upcoming Events
PTRS Educational Summit
Mark your calendars for our 2025 PTRS Educational Summit scheduled for October 11, 2025.
UI Physical Therapy Apparel Order
The Physical Therapy Student Organization's (PTSO) spring apparel order is now closed. If you wish to be put on the mailing list for the fall order, please email us at physical-therapy@uiowa.edu.
Alumni Newsletters
The alumni newsletters provide an opportunity for us to share many of the accomplishments of previous classmates, faculty, and staff from the UI Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences Community at Iowa. These newsletters will go out annually to keep you informed of the new developments and future plans within the department.
College of Medicine Events
Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour
Monday, June 9, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.PLEASE NOTEClass will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30...
REDCap Basic Training
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:
• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating...
TriNetX Basic Training
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.
After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.
Register by clicking the virtual event link...
REDCap Intermediate Training
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts...