Abstract
[Purpose] With the aim of improving physical therapist education, clinical training supervisors’ views of an ideal supervisor and differences in such views related to the length of clinical experience were examined. [Subjects and Methods] A questionnaire survey was conducted, asking physical therapists working in 42 facilities to voluntarily respond. [Results] The 5 most frequent words were “student”, “supervision”, “can”, “training”, and “ability”. Furthermore, responses were classified into 3 clusters: <conveying the enjoyment of clinical practice>, <being able to supervise students according to their abilities>, and <considering appropriate approaches for individual patients together>. When focusing on the length of clinical experience, differences were observed in 5 words: “student”, “thinking”, “enjoyable”, “according”, and “together”. [Conclusion] Clarifying and understanding views of an ideal supervisor may contribute to the improvement of physical therapist education. This may also be needed to enhance physical therapists’ qualities.
