{"id":2230,"date":"2018-02-09T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/ahs\/physical\/?page_id=2230"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:23:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Division of Physical Therapy is a community of students, educators, scholars, and clinicians who are guided by a collective vision to be a global leader in physical therapy through the intentional integration of our educational, research, clinical practice, and service missions. Our nationally recognized, top 10 PhD and DPT programs are built on a foundation of innovation, collaboration, and a deep commitment to improving lives locally and globally.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/\">Academic Programs<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>We offer several different degrees, including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/doctor-of-physical-therapy-dpt\/\">Doctor of Physical Therapy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/hmsc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhD in Human Movement Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/residency-and-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Residencies<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/residency-and-fellowship\/d1-sports-fellowship\/\">D1 Sports Fellowship<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/residency-and-fellowship\/orthopedic-residency-program\/\">Orthopedic Residency Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/residency-and-fellowship\/pediatric-residency-program\/\">Pediatric Residency Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/programs\/residency-and-fellowship\/neurological-residency-program\/\">Neurologic Residency Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/university-physical-therapy-upt\/\">Clinical Service<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/uncptoutreach2.blogspot.com\/\">Service Learning<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Division of Physical Therapy is a community of students, educators, scholars, and clinicians who are guided by a collective vision to be a global leader in physical therapy through the intentional integration of our educational, research, clinical practice, and service missions. Our nationally recognized, top 10 PhD and DPT programs are built on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/about\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about About\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68816,"featured_media":5213,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2230","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2230\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}