1. Meeting Minutes a. Please contact Charlotte Thurnauer at Thurnauer.1@osu.edu if you have any corrections or additions to these notes. b. See Secretary s Report for call attendance 2. Updates/Changes/Additions a. Let your interests be heard on each call. Please email PT Co-Chair, Justin, at jpkirchmer@gmail.com for agenda additions next month. 3. Call Participation a. Please mute your phone when you are not speaking. Kelsey is online taking e-mails and monitoring the Facebook OPTA Student Group page for questions/ comments. This option is provided as an alternative method for your ideas/ opinions to be heard during the call. If you or your fellow classmates are not on the page consider signing up search for OPTA Students. 4. PT Co-Chair Report a. New Activities Coordinator i. Emma Fish Ohio University 2nd Year PT student 5. Alexander Dien, SPT a. APTA Student Assembly Vice President i. Learning more about OPTA SSIG b. How do students get involved in the state? Would love to build Rhode Island SSIG! c. Reach out at aptasa.vicepresident@gmail.com or on twitter @alexander_dien 6. Secretary Report a. NSC Experiences i. Jacob Wahl Zane State 1. Second Year PTA student 2. Sponsored by OPTA to attend NSC received ~ $1,000 towards trip 3. Loved friendliness of conference. He traveled solo to the conference & met a lot of fellow PT and PTA students 4. Networking with employees and other professionals 5. Gain knowledge of APTA, profession as a whole, and opportunities available to us ii. Tim Rethorn OSU 1. Third year PT student 2. Presidential candidate for APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors 3. Highly recommends attending NSC to open up your eyes to what is happening on the national level as opposed to just state level and within your program iii. Norah Sweeney Cleveland State 1. First year PT student 2. Only person from her program met people from across the country and from within own state 3. Great to see how professionals are making PT fit their needs
4. Motivating and gets you excited about PT 5. Recommends attending in first or second year b. Attendance for tonight s meeting i. OPTA Student Liaisons/ACCEs & Faculty 1. Marie Ball 2. Marka Gehrig-Salsberry ii. Officers 1. Justin Kirchmer PT Co-Chair 2. Natalie Mossman PTA Co-Chair 3. Megan O Neill Vice Chair 4. Charlotte Thurnauer Secretary 5. Kelsey Biller Website Coordinator 6. Emma Fish Activities Coordinator 7. Kathryn Nemann Student Challenge Coordinator 8. Nick Eberhardt APTA Student Assembly Core Ambassador iii. PT/PTA Students 1. Liz Antonik, SPT Cleveland State 2. David Ryland, SPT CSU 3. Norah Sweeney, SPT CSU 4. John Pavicic, SPT CSU 5. Tim Rethorn, SPT Ohio State 6. Kara Carpenter, SPT OSU 7. Nicholas O Hanlon, SPT, OSU 8. Morgan Richards, SPT OSU 9. Kayla Stephenson, SPT OSU 10. Grace Couture, SPT OSU 11. Michael Dimick, SPT OSU 12. Kayla Harris, SPT OSU 13. Beth Lloyd, SPTA Sinclair College Courseview 14. Allyson Kraft, SPTA Sinclair Community College Mason 15. Samantha Miller, SPTA Sinclair Community College 16. Allison Gibson, SPTA Sinclair Community College 17. Ashley Wales, SPTA Sinclair Community College 18. Ashley Neff, SPT Findlay 19. Meagan Rhine, SPT Findlay 20. Sarah George, SPT Findlay 21. Ryan Queen, SPT - Findlay 22. Brigid Griffin, SPT U. of Cincinnati 23. Leigh Alexander, SPT U. of Mount Union 24. Steven Becka, SPTA Cuyahoga Community College 25. Stephanie Sweeney, SPT U. of Dayton 26. Khadija Cleghorn, SPT Mount St. Joseph U. 27. Colleen Juhasz, SPT Youngstown State U. 28. Malerie Takach, SPT Ohio U. 29. Cassie Serdula, SPTA Kent State University- Ashtabula 30. Lauren Hambel, SPTA Bradford School
31. Madalyn Koz, SPTA Bradford School 32. Megan Tucker, SPTA Bradford School 33. Elizabeth Stevens, SPTA Bradford School 34. Zane Levesseur, SPTA Bradford School 35. Rachel Peete, SPTA Bradford School 36. Kasey Bethel, SPTA Bradford School 37. Mallory Geiger, SPTA Bradford School 38. Lauren Miller, SPTA Bradford School 39. Ally Dempsey, SPTA Bradford School 40. John Gray, SPTA Bradford School 41. Lexi Kliza, SPTA Bradford School 42. Jacob Wahl, SPTA Zane State Community College 43. Tatyana Karatov, SPTA Lorain County Community College 44. Michael Barber iv. Guest Speaker 1. Sanaz Holcomb, PTA, BS 7. Upcoming Events a. OPTA Membership Benefits Campaign i. November financial benefits 8. Student Challenge Report a. When is it? OPTA Annual Conference in April b. What is it? Jeopardy-style game that teams of 4 students from PT and PTA students participate in. 12 teams participate in 4 rounds. Winner of each round compete in final round to determine winner! i. Questions written so PT and PTA students can participate as well as at any stage of their program ii. Group of students put together to write questions for c. Must be registered for at least 1 day of the conference to participate and be an OPTA member d. Registration will not open until after the new year 9. Web Coordinator Report a. Find us on Social Media i. Facebook OPTA Students ii. Instagram & Twitter - @OPTA_SSIG b. School of the Month Lorain County Community College i. Tatyana Karatov ii. What does your program do to integrate the first years into the program? 1. Second years attend first-year orientation, intermittent talks with the first years to encourage and assist their transition into the program, use of the buddy system iii. What community events is your program involved in? 1. Involvement in bringing awareness to the local community of our program through fundraising events such as representation at school and at local restaurants.
iv. What are you most excited about/what event have you found the most exciting during your time in your program? 1. Welcome week a lot because it is a great way to highlight the program. v. What does your program do to get involved in state and national professional events? 1. Each year we have the opportunity to go to the leadership conferences and in the past others have also went and got a chance to get to know the APTA and OPTA more. c. Student Volunteer Challenge i. Now open! Competition between all PT and PTA schools in Ohio to do the most service hours ii. Register your program online for programs hours to count as well as logging the hours 1. Register your program: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1faipqlsclj9- xhmzm2cjqdfjktap6nk8lledduej0_8klmbfcik1imw/viewform 2. Log your hours: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1faipqlser9h_ldumhzn _zpi_uhxmpb0xghsvqa_v6-3fjopdezdf9ag/viewform iii. OPTA donating $250 to charity of winning program s choice 10. CORE Ambassador Report a. New SIG on Facebook! Ohio Physical Therapy Association: Sports SIG i. Updates on research, outcomes, etc. b. Keep an eye out for emails from Nick for updates 11. Guest Speaker - Sanaz Holcomb, PTA, BS a. PTA Caucus Rep b. PT-PTA relationship i. Important to foster relationships early! PTs and PTAs should be familiar with what each other learns ii. PTs with work with multiple PTAs and vice versa iii. Opening communication of work, specialties is important in helping us reach the common goal: helping the patient iv. Ask questions when you don t know, aren t familiar. v. Know your limitations. Being active in the association helps up learn limitations 1. Beyond just physical limitations. Limitations include laws (PTs may not know everything PTAs can and cannot do) vi. Each PT and PTA have different styles of treating. As you work together, you have to learn one another s ways vii. Communication system in place to communicate needs, wants, misunderstandings, and keeping the patient as priority viii. Work together to change POC for patient s best care ix. Working together to understand patient medications and PT implications
x. Respect each other s past experiences and professions and how that influences their treatment as well as educational background xi. PTAs can work towards advanced proficiencies began in 2005. Mentoring with a PT supervisor. 60 CEUs in specific area you re trying to get advanced proficiency in + 2,000 patient-care hours under PT mentor. Typically completed in 2-5 years. xii. One PTA program in NE district is transitioning to Bachelors degree. Curriculum will not change, but there will be greater opportunity for managerial positions and transition to DPT program xiii. Contact her at sanazarmand@yahoo.com with questions