Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Clinical Residency
The Institute offers a Clinical Residency in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy credentialed by the American Physical Therapy Association. The one year residency program provides physical therapy residents with didactic, scholarly and clinical education opportunities that will improve their ability to integrate scientific knowledge into clinical practice, and will facilitate development of advanced diagnostic, clinical decision-making, and hands-on clinical skills in orthopaedic and manual physical therapy. The residency program is structured to meet the Description of Specialty Practice that will qualify residents upon completion of the program to sit for the APTA’s orthopaedic specialist certification exam.
Residents are matched with a clinical partner where, over the year-long program, the resident completes a 1000 hours of paid clinical practice with a specified mix of orthopaedic patients including 150 hours of one-to-one mentoring. In addition they complete 150 hours of didactic learning through structured coursework, and a minimum of 360 hours of resident-directed learning activities including mentored clinical research, community outreach, paid experience as a laboratory instructor in the Institute’s DPT or MS programs, and completion of APTA Orthopaedic Section Home Study courses.