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Dave Riddell asked how many hours are required for clinical rotations. I am not an expert on school accreditation but, I know that most require a final rotation of 16 weeks, 40 hours per week. Often though, these rotations are divided into 2 or 3 different settings. Now if you want to compare this to a physicians clinical rotation it is much different. So, that's why I'mnot sure why we are really wanting to call ourselves "doctors" which conotates the same training as physicians. Also, Douglas White mentioned that most US PT programs are DPT's. I don't think that is the case although several are converting. Then that raises the issue in the public's eye of what is the difference between a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Physical Therapist. Atleast when we converted from BS to MS degrees for PT's we didn't have this problem. Sincerely, Patrick Zerr www.apluspt.com