To provide comprehensive education and experiences that nurture the development of exceptional clinical skills and reasoning, professionalism, and compassion in future physical therapists, enabling them to optimize health and function across the lifespan.
Our Vision
We work together to deliver rigorous education, impactful research, and innovative clinical experiences that produce exceptional physical therapists dedicated to serving local and global communities to meaningfully advancing health.
Our Values
- Integrity - We uphold the highest ethical and professional standards in education, research, clinical practice, and service, honoring our commitments to learners, patients, colleagues, and communities.
- Nurture - We foster growth, well being, and belonging by supporting the personal and professional development of students, faculty, staff, and clinical partners across all programs and campuses.
- Synergy - We create greater impact through collaboration, integrating education, research, and clinical care and building strong partnerships with community, health system, industry, and global stakeholders.
- Passion - We bring energy, curiosity, and purpose to advancing movement science, delivering high value rehabilitation, and improving the lives of underserved and global populations.
- Initiative - We lead change by developing innovative hybrid and international programs, digital health and AI applications, residencies, and new models of clinical education and faculty practice.
- Respect - We value diversity, promote equity and inclusion, and listen to the goals and experiences of every learner, colleague, patient, and community we serve.
- Excellence - We strive for outstanding outcomes in student learning and NPTE performance, research funding and productivity, community and global health impact, and national reputation.
Program Outcomes
- Develop versatile, adaptable, and practice ready physical therapists.
- Cultivate the empathetic physical therapist who embodies a patient centered approach.
- UTMB graduates will demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning, practice innovation, and community advocacy.
- UTMB graduates will innovate excellence across physical therapy practice, research, and leadership fostering interdisciplinary proficiency and leadership acumen.