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[P322]Physical Therapy Exam Preparation

by Grojan Fabiola, Gro

To be able to practice physical therapy in the United States, you have to meet a series of requirements. The most important requisite of all is taking the physical therapy exam. Prior to this, you also have to take several steps, but the passing of the exam is essential if you want to be able to practice. However, beside taking and passing the exam, you also have to find a physical therapy sponsor. Finding your sponsor is very important because otherwise you cannot practice.

The physical therapy exam can be taken in the United States only. So your first concern should be to make sure that your visa is still valid when you take the exam. As has been said before, there are several requirements that have to be met before you can take the exam, but the most important one is to have a visa.

In order to see to this, you can apply for a tourist visa or you can find yourself a physical therapy sponsor to sponsor you for your Green Card or H1b. However, most agencies will not sponsor you until you have passed the exam. So a tourist visa is the perfect option in the beginning. After you have taken the exam, your sponsor will make sure that your stay in the United States is legal.

In order to apply for the physical therapist exam, there are important steps you have to take. You have to obtain certain materials, fill them out, make some payments and schedule an appointment to determine your eligibility. There are special web sites dedicated to foreign physical therapists detailing exactly what you must do in order to apply for the physical therapy exam.

If you are lucky and have already found a physical therapy sponsor before taking the exam, then the agency will probably help you with your application. However, you can also find this information on the Internet.

After you have applied for your physical therapy exam, next comes the most important part, which is taking the exam. The Internet is once again a good source of information on what to do and what to expect from your exam. Special web sites dedicated to foreign physical therapists can be a great guide for you. On these web sites you can find the necessary information about your physical therapy exam and what you have to do after you have passed it.

Once you are a licensed foreign physical therapist, your next step is finding a physical therapy sponsor. Your sponsor will help you get your Green Card or H1b. Your sponsor will send you the offer detailing the costs and salary, benefits and health insurance. The lawyer and immigration fees are fairly high, but part of them may be paid by your physical therapy sponsor. Moreover, the salary, holidays, benefits and health insurance are going to be the same as those of other U.S. employees.

After you have taken your physical therapy exam and found a physical therapy sponsor, you can legally practice in the United States. However, you should know that your visa is only valid three years for an H1b visa, upon which you have to apply for an extension or permanent residency. All these should be discussed with your physical therapy sponsor.

To increase your chances of successfully securing the PMP certification, you have to undergo PMP exam preparation lessons. You should think of these lessons as pre-board reviews, which you undertook before the CPA board examinations and the bar examinations.

Time Management

You have to wisely manage your time. Since PMP exam preparation lessons can cost you $3,000 to $5,000 for the total package, your finances can be strained. You might want to continue working to finance your everyday expenses, which means that you have to juggle between your professional life, your personal life, and your reviewee life. This juggling act demands excellent time management skills to balance everything.

You will be required to put in study hours to absorb the lessons, like it or not. Though online PMP exam preparation programs provide for flexibility, you will still need to study and answer the practice questions on your own. Besides, it is almost sacrilegious wasting $5,000 on failure when the country is suffering from near-recession conditions.

Wise time management means that you should have a study plan. You have to set timetables for your daily activities, even if it means being obsessive-compulsive about time for the duration of your review. Again, time should not be wasted much as you do not want money to be wasted.

Tenacity

Not only do you need a can-do attitude towards any PMP exam preparation course, you also need a stick-to-it attitude, maybe even more. You have to remember that most courses will take you through the paces of the actual four-hour examination, which covers many topics of broad applications. If you do not have a stick-to-it approach to your study plan, you might as well kiss the review program good riddance.

For example, you will learn and/or refresh about the five areas of expertise - project management body of knowledge, standards and regulations, project environment, general management skills and knowledge, and interpersonal skills - and the nine knowledge areas of project management - integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement.

You can memorize these by rote; just use ISTCQHRCRP as the basis. However, memorization is substantially different from application. You will still need to be able to explain these concepts to pass the PMP examination, or a job interview for a PM post for that matter.

Regardless if you are aiming for memorization or application, tenacity is very important to understand project management in its entirety. Or at least, where passing both the PMP exam preparation course and PMP exam itself are concerned.

Temerity

As stated earlier, you need to have a can-do attitude. Even if this is not your PMP examination debut, you have to possess the temerity to still go after your goal. As clich‚ as it is, nothing ventured, nothing gained. You just need to have the boldness of spirit to try and try again until you have virtually memorized your PMP exam preparation lessons and passed the actual PMI test.

Of course, nothing beats actual experience when it comes to being a good project manager. However, the PMP credential is a very good addition to your resume and no harm done if you have it.

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