Comparing my initial and final APTA Core Values assessments highlights significant growth throughout my Doctor of Physical Therapy journey. Entering the program, my understanding of professional values was largely theoretical, focusing primarily on foundational clinical competence and accountability. Through rigorous coursework, interprofessional collaboration, and hands-on clinical rotations, values such as altruism, compassion, and professional duty transformed into everyday practice. After reflecting upon my APTA core values self-assessments, I can definitely see where my strengths lie along with the areas in which I can personally improve upon. I found myself grading a lot of 4s and 5s in the accountability, altruism,  collaboration, compassion, duty, inclusion, and integrity. I noticed that excellence had more 4s than 5s and social responsibility as a whole was a very weak point of mine due to the fact that I still gave myself in that category. I believe when it comes to excellence, I need to build upon my foundation of knowledge to draw from. I am very good at informing patients when it comes to subjects I know about very well, but I need to improve upon those subjects because it is very limited at the moment. That is an area of excellence which I will try to improve upon with my own self learning and progression of knowledge in physical therapy. When it comes to social responsibility, participating in social activism was an area I gave myself a 3 in as I prefer to be very apolitical. I don't like reading about, diving into, or discussing politics whatsoever. However, I will change that moving forward when it comes to the profession of physical therapy as it is something that affects my patients and I directly. This in turn brings up my next weak point which is advocating for policy and political change for patients. I am very adept at advocating for patients in the clinic, but I will admit I can definitely improve on advocating for patients outside the scope of the clinic. Often times, intimidated by big insurance companies and law makers, but I recognize that it's my duty as a physical therapist to advocate for my patients inside and outside of the clinic and that's exactly what I will practice to do moving forward. Overall, I feel like the self assessments really highlighted my flaws that I need to look into internally and improve for the betterment of my patients and my care as a physical therapist.