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covid19 pandemic saw physical therapist pt education programs 2020 add virtual options prepare students handson clinical skills purpose research investigate student confidence preparation clinical performance based choice virtual inperson laboratory immersion secondary analysis compared 2020 cohort outcomes previous cohort 2019 prepandemic virtual skill acquisition studied support effectiveness didactic psychomotor skill acquisition impact clinical education performance unknown student records accelerated hybrid pt education program 2020 n 91 2019 n 86 mixedmethod observational study researchers analyzed qualtrics survey pt clinical performance instrument cpi compare student outcomes statistical analyses included chisquare twoway multivariate analysis variance manova mannwhitney u test maxqda software used code student clinical instructor narrative responses cpi related strengths areas development students 2020 attended laboratory virtually 9 full days 24 students chose virtual laboratory remaining 85 days 97 students reported feeling confident going clinical experience 66 inpatient statistically significant differences found based instructional method virtual inperson clinical practice setting inpatient outpatient confidence preparation cpi performance themes wanting time prepare confidence clinical decision making emerged qualitative analysis results indicate statistically significant difference virtual versus inperson laboratory difference compared 2019 cohort virtual instruction effectively prepared students clinical experiences across settings although inperson laboratory experience may preferred possible deliver effective experiences virtual setting without compromising student performance research needed confirm findings