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jma -> Re: PT and ATC qualified (September 26, 2004 3:34:00 AM)
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Hello,
My experience from NYIT was great. Yes,I too commuted from Brooklyn everyday by car. From where? Midwood. Traveling by the BQE and the LI expressway was a drag at first. Eventually, I learned to go via the Belt Parkway and the Grand Central Parkway. Of course, the trick was to leave early and come home late to avoid the morning and evening rush hour. Dorms, even though I never dormed, is at a different NYIT campus, even farther away in LI but does have shuttle buses to bring you to the Old Westbury Campus, which has no dorms.
Everything that I learned there was applicable to what I am doing now. Although I graduated with a Masters' degree, the DPT, which is now the graduating degree, is the best thing they have done in a short period of time. One of the hallmarks of the program now, is that in order to graduate from the program, you have to take a comprehensive exam. This exam is similar to taking the boards and in fact prepares you for it. Now, I am not sure if they are making the questions just as hard as the current exam, since the change in format starting in 2002. Nevertheless, it is a good review and once you graduate, you are more than ready to take the exam because everything has been reviewed.
I know all of the faculty, with the exception of a few new professors, who have joined the team, since the DPT has been established. The program was hard and tough from the beginning to the end. No easy classes and plenty of projects to do. You can get that from anyone who has been in a PT program in NY. Of course, you are not limited to go to NYIT. Stonybrook (is in LI but has a Manhattan campus as well), LI University, NYU, Downstate (which is in Brooklyn) have PT programs as well.
Overall I liked it there and perhaps one day I will go back to get my transitional DPT if they get the program started there. Hope this info helped.
JMA
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