Hi club members,

I hope everyone is A-ing their midterm. Just a reminder that our club will be having a meeting on Monday (2/27) @ 7 PM at Milam 019. We will continue to focus on the Wheel – A – Thon. Last time, members separate into different sub-committees for different aspects for the event. The different committees are the Recruitment Committee, Course Design Committee, Donation Committee, and Advisement Committee. Each committees have their own task and project, and in the end, all the committee will come together to create a successful Wheel – A – Thon. I will briefly describe what each committee does. The main goal of the Recruitment Committee will be recruiting different member so of the communities to be part of the Wheel – A – Thon. The Donation Committee is the committee that goes to various business and clubs and asks for support & donation. The Course Design Committee focus on creating the wheelchair obstacle course race. Lastly, the Advisement Committee is the committee that promotes the event through different recourse on campus and communities. Each committees is lead by different officers of clubs, for more information, please contact Annie Johnson @ johnsoan@onid.orst.edu or your committee’s officers. Also if you haven’t done so please visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ptahclub or search OSU Pre-Therapy and Allied Health Club. If you are on Facebook, also visit the Wheel – A – Thon page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/events/140780536042939/ for more information and invite all your friends to our awesome event. More people help, more money we can raise to help IMPACT and MS Exercise Program. Finally, if you are interested in forming a team to join the Wheel – A – Thon, the Team Packet or the Application is under the Wheel – A – Thon tab at the blog or visit, http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ptah/wheel-a-thon/. Recently, I was looking at the Barometer’s website and find an article about Wheel-A-Thon. The article was written couple years ago, but I think it bring out a good sense of what the Wheel – A – Thon is. So I strongly encourage everyone to read it, you can find the article here: http://www.dailybarometer.com/news/wheel-a-thon-offers-campus-community-a-different-perspective-1.2383750.

Last thing, if you are interested in being an officer for the club next year, please e-mail your resume and cover letter to our President, Sean O’Kelley at okelleys@onid.orst.edu and indicate which position who want to pursued. The resume and cover letter is due by Week 8. The due date is coming up very very soon, so hurry if you still want to apply. All the position of the club can be found on the PTAH Club Blog or at http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ptah/about/officers/.

Thank You Everyone!!! And I Hope To See You ALL at Monday Meeting!!!

Willie Leung

Blogmaster

Hello everybody,

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I here to remind everybody that our next meeting is on Monday (2/13) at 7 PM. This meeting is going to be a very important meeting, where the club will start organizing our majoy event, the Wheel – A – Thon. Wheel–A–Thon, short for WAT is an annual event on the OSU campus sponsored by the Pre – Therapy and Allied Health Club at the Memorial Union Quad. The event is a 20 minutes wheelchair relay race through an obstacle course design by the students and the members of the PTAH Club. The obstacle involved members of each team sit in a wheel chair and go through the obstacle course as fast as possible. There will be prizes for the team who had the most laps on the obstacle and the individual who had the fastest time on one lap. The main goal of this event is to raise awareness and funds for programs on campus that support local individuals with disabilities. The PTAH Club hopes that many students and the communities will understand the difficult of the individuals in a wheel chair or with disability. All the funds raised are directly donated, split equally between two programs that provide opportunities for OSU students to help individuals with disabilities participate in physical activity, the MS Clinic and the IMPACT Program. There will be 4 different committees to organize the event. The 4 different committees are Course Design, Sponser & Donation, Recuritment, & Advisement. We will tell you more about the committees at the meeting and each committees will be lead by either one or two officers. The members will be able to choose which committees do they want to be part of. So we will be needing everyone to come join us and help create the best WAT yet. I hope to see everybody on Monday!!! There are also a fun video on WAT create by the OSU Athletics Department. Check it out!!!

Willie Leung

Blogmaster

Hello everyone,

I hope everybody is having a great weekend. This is your blogmaster, Willie.

Thank you everyone for coming to our meeting on Monday for the University of Puget Sound’s presentation on their Physical Therapy
programs. Also, we need to send a big thank you to Jennifer Hastings for coming down from Tacoma to present to us.

In Dr. Hastings’s presentation, she describes to the members what the campus of university of Puget Sound look like and activities students can do around and in campus. She talks about what University of Puget Sound can offer for students in their PT school program and the different between a doctrine and master degree. Besides talking about the campus, she also inform about the cost of attending UPS and classes schedule. For example, during summer, students in the PT programs will have internship. Also first year students will have a research study to do for assignments. UPS’s PT program heavily focuses on peer to peer mentorship and clinical skills. Due to the fact that UPS’s
application is available on the PTCAS, the number of applicants is 545 students. But UPS will only select average 38 students who they feel ready and prepare for their program. Dr. Hastings also told us what she look for when she is reading students application,

–         3.0 or above GPA

–         A good
score on the verbal and writing section of the GRE

–         “Unique” Minor such as Spanish, Public Health or Art

–         “Unique” working experience. Rather than PT Aide, participate in a research will make your application stand out more

–         A good grade on Anatomy and Physics series

–         A good first 5 sentences on your essay

There are some of the details that Dr. Hastings looks for in
an application. She also introduces the Occupational Therapy program offer at
UPS. The UPS’s OT program has 2 different sections, one is the practice of
occupational therapy and the other one is the research aspect of occupational
therapy. The OT programs only offer master degree in Occupational Therapy.

On the side note, there will be no intramural sport team this term. But if you are very interest in participating sport event with us, Team Therapy might join a in – door soccer tournament. If interest, please contact Josh Young at youngjos@onid.orst.edu with your name, grade, student ID, and your contact information.

Remember there will be a meeting on Week 6’s Monday. The topic will be our annual Wheel – A – Thon. We will need every member to participate in the event and help us create the best Wheel – A – Thon yet.