Student physical therapist resume examples from 2025
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How to write a student physical therapist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in student physical therapist-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some student physical therapist interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a student physical therapist resume:
- Patients
- Occupational Therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Patient Care
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Adaptive
- Orthopedic Diagnoses
- Acute Care
- Gait Training
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Prosthetics
- CVA
- Orthotics
- Discharge Planning
- Patient Education
- Therapeutic Exercises
- ICU
- Treatment Sessions
- Cerebral Palsy
- Functional Mobility
- Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Outcome Measures
- Cervical
- CI
- Chronic Pain
- Physical Therapy
- Spinal Cord Injury
- THA
- Joint Mobilization
- Traction
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How to structure your work experience
A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.
- Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
- Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
- Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.
How to write student physical therapist experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
Here are examples from great student physical therapist resumes:
Work history example #1
Student Physical Therapist
Baylor Scott & White Health
- Evaluated and treated adult and geriatric clients with ACL reconstruction, chronic low back pain, and other varying orthopedic conditions.
- Performed in-service on education after surgery for prostate, head & neck surgeries, and neurology surgeries.
- Provided Inpatient Rehabilitation to patients with TBI, CVA and SCI.
- Managed physical therapy interventions for 15-20 patients in sub-acute rural 76 bed heath & rehabilitation facility.
- Managed high volume caseload with daily scheduled appointments while accepting walk-in clinic referrals or treatments in workers compensation facility.
Work history example #2
Student Physical Therapist
Amedisys
- Performed OASIS assessments, implemented plans of care, supervised PTA and home health aides and trained new hire PT/PTAs.
- Observed total hip replacement surgery, Parkinson's exercise class, Modified Barium Swallow test, and Occupational Therapy sessions
- Initiated and conducted appropriate preventive and rehabilitative therapy procedures in coordination with the plan of care.
- Worked with diverse outpatient orthopedic caseload, including sports injuries, total joint replacements, and spinal conditions
- Supervised support personnel to ensure meeting needs of patients and following POC.
Work history example #3
Physical Therapy Internship
Physical Therapy Central
- Administered ultrasound therapy on patients when ordered by therapist.
- Developed full caseload expected of a new graduate and established more autonomy in clinical decision making for orthopedic conditions.
- Managed a 10-patient caseload alongside my CI and became well-versed in CPSI software and scheduling.
- Managed physical therapy interventions for 15-20 patients in sub-acute rural 76 bed heath & rehabilitation facility.
- Trained and supervised PTAs in physical rehabilitation treatment sessions.
Work history example #4
Student Physical Therapist
Jackson Therapy Partners
- Kindred Transitional Care and Rehab - Milwaukee, WI - Examined functional abilities of short/long-term geriatric residents at a 473-bed SNF.
- Issued DME and provided equiment and ADL training.
- Worked in a progressive outpatient orthopedic facility.
- Utilized TENS unit, ice cup, paraffin bath, ultrasound, and tissue mobilization treatments on patients under therapist supervision.
- Received training and supervision on counseling families and individuals with DCFS involvement.
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Add an education section to your resume
- The highest degree you have achieved.
- TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
- TField of study
- TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Doctoral Degree in kinesiology
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
2012 - 2015
Doctoral Degree in kinesiology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2012 - 2015
Highlight your student physical therapist certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.