New Endings, New Beginnings

It's pretty much all over now. It's been about nine years since I decided I wanted to become a physical therapist. Now I'm pretty much there! On June 5th I received my degree. We celebrated our grad on the 9th, and today we completed the clinical component of the Physiotherapy Competency Exam. This exam is the culmination of all my learning and clinical experience. And it cost $1100 just to have the priviledge of doing it. I did awful at a few stations, I'm sure, but I was so happy to have a station that I did really well at to finish off the whole 5 hour exam. Yes, 5 hours of quickly reading questions, then rushing into examination rooms to complete the assigned tasks in 5 or 10 minutes.... My brain still feels petrified from the experience, but at least it's over. Now I just have to wait for the results! It could be up to 12 weeks before I find out... which totally sucks.

I just have a few more things to do before it's officially official that I'm a physical therapist: get my license or temporary license (paperwork, application fees, malpractice insurance, blah blah blah), find out that I passed my exam, and get a job! Whew!