Rates and Deadline Information

You may choose how long to run your listing, in 1-month increments, anywhere from 1 to 12 months. On the "Post Course" or "Post Job" page, you'll notice a field titled "Months Published." Just choose your selected time period from the menu. The form will automatically calculate the total charge for your ad when you check out. Questions or comments? Send them to ptbadvertising@apta.org.

2009 Rates per 1-month listing

Basic listing for Jobs and Courses: $65 for APTA members who provide a member number that matches the billing information; $120 for nonmembers

Banner ad with link: $900 (banner specs: 468 x 60 pixels; JPG format)

Basic Listing Package: $825 (1-200 postings) To initiate a contract, please contact Meredith Turner, Ad Marketing Group, at 703/243-9046, ext 107, or ptbulletin@admarketinggroup.com.

Monthly contracts are available. For rate information and to initiate a contract, please contact Meredith Turner, Ad Marketing Group, at 703/243-9046, ext 107, or ptbulletin@admarketinggroup.com.

Notice to our customers: You may experience difficulty submitting your listing if you are using Internet Explorer 5.5 as your browser. If possible, please try using a different browser (eg, Explorer 6.0 or higher, Netscape). If you do not have access to an alternate browser or are still experiencing problems, please contact ptbadvertising@apta.org so that we can assist you. For more tips on submitting and searching listings, see our FAQ section .

Description of Listings

Course Listings include announcements of professional development and continuing education courses, conferences, workshops, and seminars.

Job Listings include recruitment announcements and other positions that are available. Please note that PT Bulletin Online is strictly a physical therapy site. As such, all postings must list the physical therapy education, licensure, and/or experience required or preferred.

Advertising Policies

Advertisements are accepted when they conform to the ethical standards of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). PT Bulletin Online does not verify the accuracy of claims made in advertisements, and publication of an ad does not imply endorsement of PT Bulletin Online or APTA. Acceptance of ads for professional development courses addressing advanced-level competencies in clinical specialty areas does not imply review or endorsement by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.

All postings on PTBOL must be for bona fide open positions at a specific location. As such, we reserve the right to cancel any posting, or any contract with a company that submits a posting, with no refund of money, that in our sole determination violates this bona fide open position requirement. We may at any time—but are not obligated to do so in making a determination of bona fide positions—request documentation from the agency, or request written confirmation from the employer that they have given authorization to the agency to recruit for that position. In the absence of written job orders from the company, we will require written confirmation from the employer (via email or fax) verifying that the agency is authorized to recruit for the position. Please be aware that provision of documentation doesn't guarantee that we will accept a posting if we still deterimine that it does not represent a valid open position.

APTA shall have the right to approve or deny all advertising prior to publication.

APTA may decide that certain products or services are not eligible for advertising in national APTA publications if advertisements for these specific products or services in other media consistently or significantly depart from Association standards.

The fact that an advertisement has appeared previously in an APTA publication shall not preclude the Association from denying placement of that advertisement in the future.

Sensational language, such as the extravagant use of superlatives or punctuation marks, will not be accepted.

APTA is opposed, as a matter of health care policy, to arrangements under which sources of referral (including physicians) stand to profit from referring patients for physical therapy. The policy, adopted by the House of Delegates, states: "The American Physical Therapy Association opposes ... participation in services that is in any way linked to the financial gain of the referral source." Financial Considerations in Practice (HOD 06-99-13-17).Because of this policy, PT Bulletin Online does not accept job listings for positions in a practice if any physician or other referral source has a financial interest in the practice and refers patients to an employed physical therapist or to a physical therapist who supervises an employed physical therapist assistant. All employers submitting job listings to PT Bulletin Online must make the following certification by checking the "I agree" box at the beginning of the posting process:

"I certify that no referral source (including any referring physician) has a financial interest in the practice that has the position that is the subject of this advertisement."

The American Physical Therapy Association prohibits preferential or adverse discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, age, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or health status in all areas including, but not limited to, its qualifications for membership, rights of members, policies, programs, activities, and employment practices.

APTA is committed to promoting cultural diversity throughout the profession.

Contact Us

at ptbadvertising@apta.org if you have additional questions.

[Last updated: 04/10/09 | Contact: ptbulletin@admarketinggroup.com]

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