Weymouth Resident Karen Weber Receives Award from MGH Institute of Health Professions

Weymouth resident Karen Weber, PT, MS, received the Outstanding Clinical Educator Award from the Department of Physical Therapy at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston.

Weber, who is a clinical supervisor and center coordinator of clinical education at the Spaulding Outpatient Center in Braintree, was recognized by physical therapy students and faculty for her excellence as a clinician and a clinical instructor, as well as for doubling the facility’s clinical education participation and for initiating the one-year paid internship that is a hallmark of entry-level physical therapy education at the Boston health sciences graduate school.

A 2001 graduate of Simmons College, Weber received the Ruth Hall Award from the American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts that honors only one physical therapy student each year for excellence in clinical education. Weber has received a Partners in Excellence Award for her work at Spaulding Braintree.

MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston is an innovative and interprofessional graduate school with post-baccalaureate, entry-level, post-professional, and PhD programs in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and speech-language pathology, as well as health professions education and rehabilitation sciences. An affiliate of Partners HealthCare System,  the MGH Institute offers its more than 1,300 students unparalleled opportunities to learn and work alongside expert practitioners in a variety of hospital, clinical, community, and educational settings. The school, which has graduated more than 5,400 students since its 1977 founding, is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Several programs are highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report, and the school has been included for the past several years as a Great College to Work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education.