Clinical Teaching Competencies in Physical Therapist Education: A Modified Delphi Study.

This is the first study, to our knowledge, to utilize a consensus-building strategy to clearly define competencies of clinical teaching in physical therapist professional education. Like efforts in nursing and medical education, adoption of these competencies could promote consistency in clinical instructor teaching behaviors and contribute to the creation of assessment and professional development mechanisms for clinical instructors, positively impacting the preparation of the next generation of excellent physical therapist clinicians.