Curriculum

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)