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Primary Care Certificate · for clinicians

Board-level primary care, mapped to the DSP.

Six courses built point-for-point on the APTA Description of Specialty Practice: Primary Care. Evidence-based, AI-enabled, with a lifetime CE record. One membership covers all of it.

Founders membership: one sign-up, every level of access, one price.
DSP crosswalk10 domains · mastery in 8
  • First-contact & direct access practice
  • Differential diagnosis & medical screening
  • Diagnostic imaging & testing integration
  • Pharmacology awareness for PT
  • Chronic disease management
  • Prevention, wellness & population health
  • Health systems science & value-based care
  • Interprofessional collaboration
  • Professional, ethical & legal practice
  • Advanced clinical decision-making
Mastery Advanced
6
Courses in the certificate
Taken in sequence, from first-contact foundations through pediatric and geriatric primary care.
10
DSP competency domains covered
Mastery depth in eight, advanced depth in two. No domain skipped.
1
Lifetime CE record
Every hour tracked on the BrainSmith platform, ready for renewal and audit.
The curriculum

Six courses. One standard.

Taken in order, each course builds on the last. Every learning objective traces back to a line in the DSP, so what you study is what the specialty expects.

  1. Foundations of Primary CareFirst-contact practice, prevention, systems, and collaboration.
  2. Differential Dx & ScreeningMedical screening, red flags, imaging and lab integration.
  3. Chronic Disease & PreventionManaging multimorbidity and pharmacology awareness for PT.
  4. Health Systems ScienceValue-based care, ethics, and the legal frame of direct access.
  5. Advanced Decision-MakingComplex cases that pull every domain together.
  6. Primary Care Across the LifespanPediatric and geriatric modules that meet the DSP lifespan requirement.
Inside a lesson

Slides from Course 1, exactly as learners see them.

Short modules, one idea per slide, and a PT tip on almost every screen. Built to be read between patients and applied the same day.

Title slide: Ethics, Autonomy and Legal Practice
C1 · M5 · Ethics, Autonomy and Legal Practice
Slide comparing primary care PT with traditional outpatient practice
C1 · M1 · Primary care PT vs traditional outpatient
Slide on making high-value referrals with the SBAR format
C1 · M5 · Making high-value referrals
Built by experts

Excellence in education, for clinicians who expect it.

The faculty who wrote the curriculum teach it, answer questions, and keep every course current and fresh as the evidence moves.

Eric Robertson
Eric RobertsonPT, DPT, MFA, FAAOMPT
Carly Lochala
Carly LochalaPT, DPT, NCS
Stephanie Irwin
Stephanie IrwinPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Founders membership

One price. Every level of access.

Founders get the full Primary Care Certificate, the AI-enabled learning tools, their lifetime CE record, and every program we release next. One sign-up, one price, and you grow with us from the start.

Founders membership · one-time sign-up · all access
Join the founders membership
Sign-up is on the BrainSmith learning platform (Thinkific).