Abstract
The purpose of this investigation is to examine the effect of education and clinical-training experience about the recognition of personal communication items to the patients of physical therapists and occupational therapists. Subjects were 50 freshmen and 40 seniors in the university who major in physical therapy. The subjects were asked to evaluate these 144 items to see to what degree they would be able to perform adequately and skillfully (i.e. ability score). These items were divided into 4 item groups (fundamental personal skills, specific patient, management difficult and remaining item group). As for all 4 item groups, the average ability scores of the seniors group were higher than those of freshmen group. Various influences on the recognition of the communication skill items of education and clinical-training experience about physical therapy were discussed.
