You can hardly avoid the TV image these days of the shrieking diet guru urging us all to stop the madness. Her point, though somewhat inelegantly made, is that old answers have not solved ongoing problems. If diets drive her to vocal excess, one can only imagine what she might do if she knew something about the state of physical therapy education. Perhaps the word “madness” may be extreme for describing the proliferation of physical therapy schools, but the drama of the word captures the true sense of urgency we need to bring to the topic. There is a shortage of physical therapists, and we need to bring more qualified professionals into our ranks. In the last decade, however, 32 physical therapist education programs have opened, increasing the number of therapists graduating yearly from 3,104 to 5,267, an increase of nearly 70%.…