What to Expect in Our Program
Our program graduates have a 100% Sports Physical Therapy Board Certification pass rate.
Clinical:
- One-on-one mentoring at OSU on-the-field coverage (2 hours/week)
- One-on-one clinical mentoring at Samaritan Athletic Medicine Center (2-3 hours/week)
- One-on-one clinical mentoring in the OSU football athletic training room (1.5 hours/week)
- Non-mentored patient care (27 hours/week)
- Physician shadowing (30 hours/year)
- Athletic training room athlete care at OSU, Linn-Benton Community College and local high schools (3 to 5 hours/week)
Didactic:
- Weekly journal club conference (0.5 hour/week)
- Weekly residency didactic conference (0.75 hour/week)
- Weekly online supplemental coursework (1 hour/week)
- Monthly mentored manual therapy labs (0.75 hour/month)
- Monthly acute injury case management think tank (0.5 hour/month)
- Bi-monthly mentored therapeutic exercise progression labs (1.5 hour/month)
- APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) attendance
- Annual collaboration with a Samaritan Orthopedic Surgeon to develop a post-operative, evidence based rehabilitation guideline
Sports Coverage: (4 to 10 hours/week)
- OSU sports team game and practice coverage
- Local high school sports team game and practice coverage
- Linn-Benton Community College sports game and practice coverage
- Willamette Valley athletic event coverage (2-3 hours/quarter)
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