Rate My Professor Andi Mincer

Andi Mincer serves as Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Georgia Southern University, having retired in 2025 following a career of nearly three decades dedicated to physical therapy education and clinical practice. She holds an AA degree from Pensacola Junior College (1971), a BHS from the University of Florida (1981), an MS from Georgia State University (1990), and an EdD from Georgia Southern University (2011). Mincer joined Georgia Southern University in 1998 as a founding faculty member of the physical therapy program at Armstrong State College, prior to its merger. Her clinical background encompasses physical therapy in general outpatient, inpatient rehabilitation, home care, and acute care environments. Over her tenure, she instructed physical therapy students in orthopedics, prosthetics, wound care, pelvic health, oncologic rehabilitation, acute care, case management, research methodology, evidence-based practice, and clinical synthesis. She also taught undergraduate courses and provided guest lectures across programs.

In addition to teaching, Mincer held key administrative positions including Physical Therapy Program Director, Interim Department Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences, Interim Director of Clinical Education, and Interim Director of the freshman Common Read program. As a certified Team-Based Learning Consultant-Trainer, she advanced active learning pedagogies and engaged in multi-disciplinary Scholarship of Teaching and Learning initiatives, serving as faculty associate for the PRISM partnership with K-12 science and math educators. Her research interests focus on scholarship of teaching and learning, team-based learning, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning in health professions education, physical therapy education, and rehabilitation sciences encompassing orthopedics, prosthetics, wound care, pelvic health, oncologic rehabilitation, and care for obese orthopedic patients. Notable publications include "Assistive devices for the adult patient with orthopaedic dysfunction: Why physical therapists choose what they do" (2007, Orthopaedic Nursing), "Caring for the orthopaedic patient who is obese" (2004, Orthopaedic Nursing), "Improving Clinical Reasoning in Health Professions Students Through Team-Based Learning" (2024, chapter in Evidence-Based Education in the Classroom), "Guided Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice During Clinical Education Markedly Improves Student EBP Beliefs Over Didactic Instruction Alone" (2020, conference presentation), and "Development and Evaluation of an In-Situ Measurement System for Lumbar Spine Inclination during Rehabilitation Exercises" (2019, conference presentation). Her contributions earned her the Armstrong Brockmeier Teaching Award (2000), Governor’s Teaching Fellow (2007), Georgia Southern Health Professions Faculty Teaching Award (2019), and 25 Years of Service Award (2021).