This year, we added social media communication as a professional competency in our Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum.  During their 5-week Professional Interactions course, our first-year students were required to complete a number of assignments on the social media sites Twitter and LinkedIn.  For their last Twitter assignment, students were asked to reflect upon their choice of PT as a career, and to participate in a tweet chat using the hashtag #WhyIchosePT.  I tweeted an invitation for other students and professionals to join in, resulting in over one hundred #WhyIChosePT tweets from physical therapy professionals around the country and the world.

With so much talk about our “broken” health care system, it is refreshing and inspiring to read stories about why so many of us chose (and continue to choose) PT as our profession.  If you’re a physical therapy professional, #WhyIChosePT will remind you why you chose the field in the first place.  And – if you’re not – I dare you to read these tweets without wishing that you chose PT, too

This is just the beginning.  You can view the entire #WhyIChosePT story on Storify by clicking here.