Wound care is an essential yet challenging topic for many PT and PTA students. In this webinar, Dr. Tracy Moore, PT, DPT, ONC, will walk you through PhysioU’s Wound Care Fundamentals Course. PhysioU’s evidence-based, easy to use learning resource designed to bring clarity to wound assessment and management. Discover how interactive modules with real-world examples, structured learning modules, and step-by-step demonstrations can help students understand wound characteristics, documentation practices, treatment principles, and clinical decision-making.
Featured Speaker: Tracy Moore, PT, DPT, ONC
Dr. Moore is a physical therapist, faculty member, product manager and educational leader. He completed his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Azusa Pacific University and later received the Oncology Clinical Specialist certification from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. Following a residency at City of Hope National Medical Center, Dr. Moore began his academic career teaching subjects such as oncology, clinical skills, differential diagnosis, and acute care. He is an active speaker at national and international conferences, specializing in oncology rehabilitation, chronic pain, and learning science. Dr. Moore continues to conduct and publish research, present at industry conferences, and contribute to PhysioU app design and development. His approach uniquely bridges the gap between the student experience, clinical expertise, and learning science in order to help faculty and students revolutionize healthcare education in their own classrooms around the world.
00:00 Wound Care Fundamentals Course Introduction
01:59 Wound Care Fundamentals Course Overview
03:50 Interactive Wound Care Course Overview
05:59 Supportive Wound Care Course Structure
07:42 Neuropathic Ulcer Education Module
09:51 Interactive Arterial Ulcer Learning Module
14:09 Wound Care Fundamentals Course Access
16:12 Classroom Integration
18:08 Flipped Classroom Model Overview
19:49 Enhancing Learning with PhysioU
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Inside PhysioU’s Wound Care Fundamentals Course: A Deep Dive for Faculty
When we set out to create the Wound Care Fundamentals course for PhysioU, we knew we needed something different. Not just another collection of reference materials or quick-hit videos, but a genuinely interactive learning experience that could guide students through one of physical therapy’s most clinically demanding topic areas with confidence and mastery.
Last week, Dr. Tracy Moore, our PT Education Lead at PhysioU, walked faculty members through exactly what makes this course tick—and more importantly, how instructors are successfully integrating it into their curricula. As someone who teaches at Azusa Pacific University and holds board certification in oncology, Tracy brought both the educator’s perspective and the clinical credibility needed to showcase this premium learning module.
What Makes This Course Different
The Wound Care Fundamentals course isn’t your typical app content. Think of it more as a standalone LMS experience that lives within the PhysioU ecosystem. When students access the course through that distinctive green icon in their Premium Content section, they’re entering a structured learning environment designed with intentionality at every turn.
The architecture itself tells the story. Four comprehensive modules guide students from foundational concepts through increasingly complex applications. Each module contains three to five interactive activities, building systematically toward full-length, case-based simulations that require students to synthesize everything they’ve learned. It’s a deliberate progression from lower-level knowledge recall up through Bloom’s higher-order thinking skills—application, analysis, and synthesis.
What sets this apart is the mastery requirement. Students must achieve 80% or higher on each activity to progress, but here’s the key: they can repeat sections as many times as needed. This isn’t about gatekeeping or creating artificial pressure. It’s about creating a low-stakes environment where students can genuinely build competence without the anxiety that often accompanies high-stakes assessments. Once they’ve successfully completed all modules, students receive a certificate of completion—tangible proof of their achievement that they can reference throughout their career.
The course itself represents a true collaboration among wound care specialists. Jennifer Vincenzo, Aaron Vogel, and Shelly Swen designed the core content, while Dr. Alyssa Arms from the University of Colorado—a board-certified orthopedic specialist who teaches wound care regularly—provided ongoing advisement and refinement. These aren’t theorists crafting content from ivory towers. They’re clinicians and educators who live this material daily, and that expertise shows in every module.
The Flipped Classroom Advantage
During the Faculty Friday session, Tracy spent considerable time exploring implementation strategies, and the flipped classroom model emerged as particularly powerful. If you’re not familiar with this approach, it essentially inverts the traditional teaching sequence. Instead of lecturing first and assigning homework for reinforcement afterward, you assign preparatory work before class so students arrive already familiar with core concepts.
Dr. Arms has been experimenting with this approach extensively in her own wound care course, and the results speak for themselves. Before a class session on wound assessment, for example, she assigns Module 2 from the Wound Care Fundamentals course along with specific PhysioU videos—perhaps the ankle-brachial index demonstration or the Rubor of Dependency and Venous Filling Time tests. Students complete these activities and arrive at class already grounded in the basics.
The transformation this creates in the classroom dynamic is significant. Instead of that first lecture being students’ initial encounter with arterial insufficiency—a potentially overwhelming moment—they’re meeting an old acquaintance. They’ve already explored the concept, interacted with the material, and formed preliminary understanding. The lecture becomes an opportunity to deepen knowledge, ask more sophisticated questions, and address the nuances that the preparatory work surfaced.
Tracy noted something particularly relevant in our current educational climate: student anxiety levels seem higher than in previous years. Previewing content before formal instruction substantially reduces that anxiety. “It’s not this monster jumping out of the closet to get you when lecture starts,” she explained. “It’s actually like, hey, we’re friends, you know, we sat on the bus together.”
Flexibility Meets Structure
One question that frequently arises with comprehensive course materials is how they fit alongside existing curriculum. The answer depends entirely on your program’s needs and current wound care coverage.
Some instructors, like Dr. Arms, use the course as a companion to robust existing content. She’s threaded individual modules throughout her semester, strategically assigning them before related lectures to create that flipped classroom experience. The course essentially becomes her students’ advance scout, preparing the ground before she develops topics more fully in person.
Other programs take a different approach. For those where wound care has traditionally been squeezed into a special topics course or given limited dedicated time, the Wound Care Fundamentals course can function as standalone primary instruction. Faculty supplement with targeted lectures addressing program-specific emphases, then create their own summative assessments to verify mastery.
Both approaches work because the course was designed with flexibility in mind. The modules are comprehensive enough to stand alone but structured to integrate seamlessly with additional materials. You’re not locked into a single pedagogical approach.
What Students Actually Experience
The best way to understand the course’s value is to look at what students encounter inside. Take the module on arterial insufficiency. Rather than passively reading about causes and characteristics, students navigate through interactive content that unfolds progressively. They explore common patient complaints, examine clinical images they can zoom and manipulate, and encounter those valuable clinical pearls that make abstract concepts concrete—like learning that skin may appear red instead of pale due to reactive hyperemia.
Throughout each module, knowledge checks punctuate the learning. These aren’t punitive gotcha questions but formative opportunities for students to test their understanding in real time. When they answer incorrectly, the feedback doesn’t simply mark them wrong and move on. Instead, it guides them back toward correct understanding, providing the context and explanation they need to genuinely grasp the concept.
The case-based simulations that conclude each module represent where everything comes together. Students encounter realistic patient scenarios—perhaps someone diagnosed with a foot ulcer—and work through the entire clinical reasoning process. They review subjective examination findings, analyze objective data, assess wounds from provided images, and answer questions that require genuine clinical judgment. It’s as close to real-world application as we can create in a digital environment.
Dr. Arms noted that the certificate of completion students receive carries real weight. Beyond just acknowledging course completion, it represents verified competency that students can reference as they prepare for board examinations or enter clinical practice. With a full year of access included in the $29 course fee, many students return to the material later in their programs as board exam preparation.
Integration Beyond Wound Care
One of Tracy’s more intriguing implementation suggestions involves cross-pollinating content from other PhysioU resources. Wound care doesn’t exist in isolation from the rest of physical therapy practice, and the course shouldn’t either.
When discussing venous wounds and associated swelling, for instance, instructors might pull in measurement techniques from other modules. Differential diagnosis conversations naturally connect to orthopedic content—distinguishing neurogenic from vascular claudication, for example, or determining whether a patient’s reported pain might have alternative explanations beyond wound pathology.
This kind of integration reinforces a crucial clinical reality: patients present with complex, multifaceted problems that don’t respect the neat boundaries of academic courses. Teaching students to draw connections across content areas mirrors the clinical reasoning they’ll need in practice.
Practical Implementation Guidance
For faculty considering adopting the course, a few practical points matter. First, this is premium content priced at $29 for students, separate from the standard PhysioU subscription. Students receive one year of access, which for many programs means they can use the course during their wound care instruction and still have months remaining for board exam review.
The adoption process is straightforward. Faculty receive complimentary access through the same activation code system students use—simply scan the QR code we provide, enter the code in your account settings, and the course appears in your premium content section. From there, you can explore every module, preview what students will experience, and determine how it best fits your curriculum.
Tracy emphasized one final point that resonates with anyone who’s taught using multiple resources: when you integrate various materials—textbooks, research articles, online courses—small discrepancies inevitably emerge. Being proactive about this serves everyone well. Let students know upfront which resource takes priority when conflicts arise. Acknowledge that clinical practice contains gray areas where reasonable practitioners disagree. Students handle this transparency remarkably well when it comes from you directly rather than surfacing as confusion during exam preparation.
Looking Forward
The Wound Care Fundamentals course represents our ongoing commitment to creating educational resources that genuinely serve both faculty and students. We built it with input from practicing clinicians who understand not just what students need to know, but how they learn best. The interactive format, mastery-based progression, and comprehensive scope reflect careful pedagogical design aimed at producing competent, confident practitioners.
As more programs adopt the course and faculty experiment with different implementation approaches, we’re learning alongside you. Dr. Arms’ flipped classroom model offers one compelling blueprint, but we know creative educators will discover additional applications we haven’t imagined. That’s exactly what we hoped for—a flexible tool that adapts to your program’s unique needs while maintaining the rigor and comprehensiveness wound care education demands.
If you haven’t explored the course yet, we encourage you to request access and see for yourself what we’ve built. Walk through a module or two. Experience the interactive elements. Consider where it might fit in your curriculum. And as always, we welcome your feedback as we continue refining and expanding this resource.
Because ultimately, that’s what drives everything we do at PhysioU: creating learning experiences that prepare students not just to pass exams, but to excel in clinical practice where wound care expertise can genuinely transform patient outcomes.
Interested in exploring the Wound Care Fundamentals course for your program? Contact us to receive complimentary faculty access and see how this interactive learning experience might enhance your wound care curriculum.
