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Travel Therapy Resources Learn how to compare contracts, understand pay packages, evaluate recruiters, and prepare for travel therapy assignments. Korea Travel Guide Plan a Korea trip with beauty, cafes, shopping, culture, winter activities, and itinerary ideas. China Travel Guide Explore China travel planning, city guides, apps, transportation, food, Disney Shanghai, pandas, and itinerary ideas. Scholarship Resources Find scholarships, application tips, essay support, and funding resources for PT, PTA, DPT, and healthcare students. DPT Student Resources Study tips, clinical prep, PTA-to-DPT guidance, and student life resources.

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I help PTA, DPT, and travel-minded healthcare students find scholarships, compare Travel PTA opportunities, and plan meaningful travel with more confidence.

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Based on my personal experience as a PTA, DPT student, travel healthcare worker, and solo traveler. Always verify scholarship, licensure, contract, and travel details through official sources.

Iris The Travel PT

A healthcare career.
A life big enough to hold it.

Travel, DPT school, wellness, and the things I’m building along the way.

Explore my world Meet Iris

Portrait of Iris Lee, licensed PTA and current DPT student

Four worlds

Pick the chapter that fits today.

Travel, Built to Bloom, Wellness, and TelePT are different parts of the same life—not four boxes to explain before you begin.

Travel · Where I’m going

Go somewhere worth remembering.

First-person stories, destination ideas, travel-therapy resources, and planning tools.

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Built to Bloom · What I’m building

Build a life alongside school.

Planners, scholarships, study support, and gentle systems for ambitious seasons.

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Wellness · How I can help you move

Move toward what matters.

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Current TelePT clinician-support interface

TelePT · How I’m rethinking care

Keep the clinician in the loop.

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Student traveler planning where to stay with luggage and a laptop

Recent from Travel

How I choose where to stay as a student traveler.

A practical framework for weighing location, budget, safety, arrival-day friction, recovery, and assignment housing tradeoffs.

Read how I choose where to stay

The Reading Room

A personal shelf of books, reflections, and what I’m reading now.

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A little note for today · September 10, 2026

Keep the work honest. Keep the future open.

— Iris

What I’m building right now

Ideas with a little more life in them.

Three real projects on Iris’s desk—each useful, playful, or thoughtfully investigational in a different way.

Rehab Rush

Run the clinic. Keep the heart.

A cozy-chaotic rehab clinic sim shaped by fictional patient stories, staff dynamics, and playtester feedback.

TelePT

Investigational. Clinician-led.

Exploring more thoughtful remote physical therapy workflows and review.

Built to Bloom

A softer way to plan.

Student tools and gentle systems for making room for the whole life around school.

Have something in mind?

Let’s make something thoughtful.

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PTA perspectiveReal notes from life between PTA and DPT.

Official-source remindersScholarship and licensure details can change.

Clear disclosuresReferral and affiliate notes stay visible and honest.

Free Travel PT Resources

Choose the free tool that fits your next step.

Scholarship ToolPTA to DPT Scholarship TrackerStay organized through scholarship season with deadlines, essays, recommendations, submission dates, notes, and renewals in one place.Travel TherapyTravel Therapy Starter Guide for PTs & PTAsCompare contracts with more confidence: pay packages, stipends, recruiter questions, tax-home basics, and what to verify before signing.

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Explore the resources built to help you plan school, funding, and travel with more ease.

Start with the resource that fits your season: funding DPT school, finding DPT student support, planning Korea, building a China itinerary, or getting a soft first-pass travel plan from Iris The Travel PT Planner.

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