Our Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Clinical Residency program is meticulously designed to provide licensed physical therapists with an educational experience. Residencies are carefully planned, post-professional clinical and didactic education experiences aimed at advancing your expertise in orthopaedic physical therapy.
Residencies are structured in an optimized, sequential format, allowing you to use your existing knowledge and skills. Through a blend of clinical supervision, mentoring, and theoretical education, you'll develop a strong foundation in examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and patient management within the orthopaedic specialization.
The resident graduate will demonstrate the following at the level of a clinical specialist in orthopaedics:
- Demonstrate advanced orthopaedic physical therapy patient management skills, emphasizing patient safety, intervention effectiveness and efficiency.
- Possess highly effective interpersonal patient management skills to include compassion, written and verbal communication skills, objectivity, and an ability to address issues related to diversity (includes lifespan, gender, culture and ethnicity).
- Demonstrate the ability to teach in patient care, community and educational settings.
- Possess sound clinical reasoning skills and a commitment to lifelong learning.
- Display a high level of professionalism regarding patient care, community and educational settings.
- Be a health care practitioner capable of providing a point of entry into the health care system utilizing advanced medical screening.
- Implement best available evidence in patient care and teaching.
- Demonstrate personal and professional development that enhances their life and lives of others
- Be positioned to be leaders in the orthopaedic physical therapy field.
