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Announcements and Updates for APTA Credentialed Clinical Residency
and Fellowship Programs
Committee Update
Greg Hartley is the Committee chair. Other members of the Committee
are Kathryn Lyons, Kim Nixon-Cave, Bob Rowe, and Scott Straker. The
Board liaison is Steve McDavitt.
National Student Conclave
Brochures for National Student Conclave are due to APTA staff (Janet
Crosier) by October 1. Staff will be providing attendees with the list
of credentialed programs, so all credentialed programs will be
represented.
September 2008 Version of Residency/Fellowship Program Application
for Credentialing Released
The new version of the APTA Residency/Fellowship Application for
Credentialing has been posted to the web page. Please be sure to visit
the Residency/Fellowship web page and download the revised requirements.
The major changes include:
1. Change in eligibility requirementsfor applying for credentialing.
The Committee will now be requiring that credentialed residencies
provide a minimum of 150 hours of 1:1 mentoring and 75 hours of didactic
instruction in the 1500 hour program. Credentialed fellowships are
required to provide a minimum of 100 hours of 1:1 mentoring and 50 hours
of didactic instruction in the 1000 hour program. Our data suggests that
the average mentoring and didactic hours of currently credentialed
programs is actually significantly higher.
2. Change in Evidence 1.1.1.1. Credentialed programs will be required
to comply with APTA policies and positions, specifically,
"You will not place any resident/fellow in a clinical education
experience where the clinic is in a referral for profit situation, that
is, one in which a referring physician (medical doctor, doctor of
osteopathy, podiatrist, dentist, or chiropractor) derives a financial
benefit from the physical therapy services provided to the person who is
referred. The situations to which this restriction applies include those
in which: (a) a physician has an ownership interest in a physical
therapy practice to which he or she refers, (b) a physician or the
physician's practice employs or contracts with physical therapists to
provide physical therapy services within the physician practice, or (c)
a physician's income or bonus is directly or indirectly tied to the
revenues of the physical therapy service to which he or she refers
patients. You agree that noncompliance with this clause constitutes
grounds for withdrawal of credentialing. "
3. Change in Evidence 3.1.1. Programs seeking to credential
fellowship programs in areas where there is no Description of Specialty
Practice,
"the program may establish the fellowship curriculum, including
didactic content, competency expectations, and description of patients
seen through one of the following two methods: 1) A valid and reliable
practice analysis in the subspecialty area; or 2) Expansion of
applicable portions of a DSP providing a detailed description of the
knowledge, competency expectations, and types of patients seen,
including references where appropriate."
4. All requirements related to assessment (Program, resident/fellow,
and graduate) have been moved to Section 4: Assessment in the
application.
Programs seeking credentialing will be asked to use the 2008 version
of the application beginning with the next application deadline –
March 2009. Current credentialed programs will be asked to comment on
their current compliance with the new requirements in the 2008 Annual
Report. For those programs not in compliance with the new requirements,
they will be required to submit a plan for achieving compliance by the
2009 Annual Report or their program re-credentialing, whichever comes
first.
CSM Events
- SPECIALTY CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: I will be working with several
sections to help them develop a curriculum that can be used by
developing residency/fellowship programs. We'll also be looking at what
items are common to all curricula and exploring cost effective methods
of providing the common content. If you or your faculty are interested
in participating in this effort, please contact me.
- ANNUAL PROGRAM DIRECTORS MEETING: Please save February 10 at 8:00 am
– 9:30 am for our Annual Program Directors Meeting.
- REVIEWER SUBCOMMITTEE TRAINING: If you or any of your faculty are
interested in becoming application reviewers, I will be conducting
training at CSM. Please go to the website to download an application,
complete and forward to me along with an abbreviated CV.
- PRECONFERENCE COURSES: The Section on Geriatrics has expanded their
pre-conference course to two days for CSM2009. The first day will be for
"Residency 101," a basic how-to course for new programs, and the second
day will be devoted to mentoring. The Orthopedic Section is also
offering a how-to course specifically for orthopedic programs.
- ANNUAL FORUM: The Committee will hold the Annual Forum for
developing programs.
2008 Annual Meeting
The Committee on Clinical Residency and Fellowship Program
Credentialing will have their Annual Meeting at APTA in late October. If
you have issues or agenda items that you would like the Committee to
discuss, please send them to me no later than October 4or post them on
the Residency/Fellowship Educators Message Board. Don't know about the
message board? Go to www.apta.org;
click on Message Boards on lower right corner. Log in to the website.
Click on ‘Global Preferences' and follow the instructions to add
this message board.
[Last updated: 09/22/08 | Contact: resfel@apta.org]
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