Figures
Jurisdiction of initial practice as a physical therapist for foreign-educated physical therapists.
Percentage of male and female foreign-educated physical therapists separated by country or region of professional education.
Distribution of countries and regions of professional education for foreign-educated therapists licensed to practice physical therapy in the United States within the last 5 years.
Tables
Reasons Cited for Initially Coming to the United States, Reasons for Selecting a Particular Jurisdiction, and the Physical Therapist Practice Settings Chosen by Foreign-Educated Physical Therapistsa
↵a Respondents were asked to indicate a maximum of 3 reasons for either immigrating to the United States or selecting a particular jurisdiction. n=number of responses received for each question.
Supplementary Data
eTables and eFigures
Files in this Data Supplement:
- eTables and eFigures (PDF) (448 KB) -
This PDF contains the following supplements:
- eTable 1. Country of Education for Each Geographic Region Used in the Analysis
- eTable 2. Mean Age (SD) (in Years) of Respondents at the Time of Their Initial Licensure to Practice Physical Therapy in the United States Separated by Sex and by Country or Region of Professional Education
- eTable 3. Reasons for Coming to the United States to Practice Physical Therapy Cited by Foreign-Educated Physical Therapists From Each Country or Region of Professional Education
- eFigure 1. Perceptions of foreign-educated physical therapists of the adequacy of their educational preparation for practice in the United States.
- eFigure 2. Mean number of years foreign-educated physical therapists had worked as physical therapists prior to immigrating to the United States.
- eFigure 3. Initial employment of foreign-educated physical therapists in a metropolitan vs nonmetropolitan area.
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