The Get Started Strong Guide for New and Early Career Therapists

Early-career burnout and workforce attrition continue to rise across rehabilitation professions, with recent reports estimating that thousands of physical and occupational therapists leave clinical practice annually due to stress, productivity pressures, poor onboarding experiences, and lack of career preparedness. Many new graduates enter the workforce highly skilled in examination and treatment techniques but underprepared for the realities of documentation efficiency, workplace communication, productivity standards, interview negotiation, and long-term career sustainability. Without practical guidance and mentorship during the transition to practice, clinicians may experience decreased job satisfaction, impaired confidence, increased burnout risk, and early departure from the profession. In today's rapidly evolving healthcareenvironment, new and early-career clinicians must develop both clinical and professional survival skills to buildsustainable and rewarding careers in rehabilitation

This workshop will provide practical, immediately applicable strategies to help new and early-career therapists successfully transition from student to confident practicingclinician. Through interactive case discussions, real-world clinical scenarios, professional development activities, andguided problem-solving exercises, participants will learn strategies for improving time management, documentationefficiency, patient communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, interview preparation, workplace navigation, and burnout prevention. Attendees will leave with actionabletools, templates, and career development strategies they canimmediately implement upon returning to their clinic, hospital, school, or rehabilitation setting to improve confidence, efficiency, professional growth, and long-term career sustainability.

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants

Delivery Format: Synchronous, Live interactive webinar to be attended online on a specific date/time

Highlights

• Apply practical strategies for documentation efficiency, time management, and professional communication that directly support safe, accurate, and timely patient care delivery during the transition from student to practicing clinician.
• Practice and review more than 30 real-world strategies for managing clinical workload and stress, supporting sustained clinician engagement and consistent quality of patient care across rehabilitation settings.
• Leave with actionable documentation and workflow tools that can be implemented immediately to reduce clinician error, improve continuity of patient care, and maintain quality during high-demand caseloads.