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State officials
rally behind '
physical thera
(Continued from Page 3) and training facilities whe
declining support from LSA and the therapy student might go
medical school, and has said he would semester practium
support discontinuance rather than see diminished because oft
the program further deteriorate number of supervisors.
without the needed support. "IF THE supervisors ar
THE CHAIRWOMAN of Wayne State have no one to train our stt
University's Physical Therapy tman said.
program, Dr. Roberta Cottman, said Fitch said the APTA is
her department is also writing letters to proposed discontinuanci
facilities that hire students from Wayne because of the statewid
State and asking them to get therapists, There would be a "devasta
patients, parents and anyone else they manpower, he said, if the
can to write the University and state program is cut.
legislators, stating their views. Evie Boyd, of Oakland
Dave Perry, chairman of the Eastern newly accredited physi
District of the APTA (which includes program, said if the progi
Ann Arbor), said his organization is be cut, "I can't imagine wl
working with Darnell to "hit everybody will do."
that needs to be hit." FITCH ALSO said he fe
Darnell said there must "be com- other schools wouldn't be
munity input into the process so that the up the extra students seekiu
University can make an appropriate therapy degree. This fear
decision. med by Cottman who sai
FITCH AND Darnell foresee a State were to take on the e
significant impact on the University ts, they would have to "rev
administration due to their letter- tire program." That wo
writing campaign. Darnell said it is possible, however, because
vital that all concerned understand the have the faculty," she said.
full impact of discontinuation of the Cottman added, "We wou
physical therapy program. physical therapy education
Cottman spoke of two areas of of Michigan would alwaysc
physical therapy care that would suffer needs of the citizens." Th
if the University's program were to be would not be served if the1
cut. First, the number of graduates of program were to be discont
the three Michigan schools with "It would be irresponsi
programs, Wayne State University, said, "for a state universit
Oakland University and the University program" such as physicalt
of Michigan, "does not nearly meet the Cottman agreed that the
need" of the state for therapists, she "has a responsibility like th
said. to train needed therapists.
A second problem is that the learning

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py
re a physical
for his last
would be
the reduced
en't there, we
udents," Cot-
opposing the
e primarily
de shortage.
iting" loss of
University's
University's
cal therapy
ram were to
hat the state
ars that the
able to pick
ng a physical
was confir-
id if Wayne
xtra studen-
'amp the en-
uld be im-
, "we do not
uld hope that
in the state
consider the
is, she said,
University's
inued.
ible," Fitch
ty to drop a
therapy.
e University
e rest of us"

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