Annual Conference Courses for Residency and Fellowship Educators

The following courses have been submitted for APTA's Annual Conference and Exposition (PT 2013) in Salt Lake City, Utah and are identified as key programming for residency and fellowship educators.  It is recommended that individuals take the Residency/Fellowship 101 course coming soon to the APTA Learning Center prior to attending this programming.

Residency/Fellowship 102: Successful Business and Organizational Models for Residency and Fellowship Development (Part 1 of 4)

Course Date/Time:  TBD 

Presented by: Greg Hartley, PT, DPT, GCS; Robert H. Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, FAAOMPT; Kendra Harrington, PT, DPT, MS, WCS 

Course Description: This hands-on, interactive workshop is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in developing or re-credentialing a clinical residency or fellowship program.  Learn about business and financial models that have been successfully implemented in credentialed residency/fellowship programs around the country.  Innovative organizational and financial models used to address the credentialing criteria will be explored to demonstrate how a clinical residency/fellowship can fit your unique practice situation.  Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls during program development and credentialing.  Following a brief presentation, Program Directors, Administrators, members of the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education, and APTA Staff will be present to assist you in completing integral parts of your program's credentialing application.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  1. Justify the rationale for a postgraduate clinical residency or fellowship that includes a discussion of the benefits and challenges the program can bring.
  2. Market a clinical residency/fellowship to administrators and to potential residents/fellows.
  3. Create successful mission, goals, and objectives for a clinical residency/fellowship program.
  4. Assemble the necessary resources for the development of a clinical residency/fellowship including the development of partnerships and consortia.
  5. Identify program faculty required to run a successful program.
  6. Formulate a budget and establish a cost/benefit profile of a clinical residency or fellowship program.

Residency/Fellowship 102: Curriculum Design (Part 2 of 4)

Course Date/Time:  TBD 

Presented by: Greg Hartley, PT, DPT, GCS; Robert H. Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, FAAOMPT; Kendra Harrington, PT, DPT, MS, WCS 

Course Description: This hands-on, interactive workshop is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in developing or re-credentialing a clinical residency or fellowship program.  Learn about curriculum designs for each specialty and subspecialty that have been successfully implemented in credentialed residency/fellowship programs around the country.  Explore curriculum resources available to assist residency and fellowship programs meet the curriculum blueprint.  Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls during program development and credentialing.  Following a brief presentation, Program Directors, Administrators, members of the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education, and APTA Staff will be present to assist you in completing integral parts of your program's credentialing application.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  1. Identify major content areas in the Program's curriculum and their relationship to the DSP/DASP or practice analysis.
  2. Develop an example of a typical weekly schedule for the resident or fellow that meets organizational and financial requirements of the umbrella organization.
  3. Draft an outline of the overall sequencing of content in the Program's curriculum (didactic and clinical) with a rationale behind the organization and sequencing of the curriculum content.
  4. Assemble the necessary resources to fulfill all curriculum requirements.
  5. Identify key components that must be included within each course syllabi.

Residency/Fellowship 102: 360-Degrees of Evaluation (Part 3 of 4)

Course Date/Time:  TBD 

Presented by: Greg Hartley, PT, DPT, GCS; Robert H. Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, FAAOMPT; Kendra Harrington, PT, DPT, MS, WCS 

Course Description: This hands-on, interactive workshop is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in developing or re-credentialing a clinical residency or fellowship program.  Learn about essential evaluation components of the program, its faculty, residents/fellows-in-training, and graduates necessary to meet credentialing requirements.  Explore successful grading criteria and operational definitions for each evaluation tool required.  Following a brief presentation, Program Directors, Administrators, members of the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education, and APTA Staff will be present to assist you in completing integral parts of your program's credentialing application.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  1. Identify key evaluation tools required for credentialing.
  2. Assemble the necessary resources to develop successful evaluation tools.
  3. Establish successful operational definitions for grading scales utilized.
  4. Describe the process for regular and ongoing evaluation of the program, its faculty, and residents/fellows-in-training.
  5. Describe how the information collected from program graduates is used to evaluate and modify the program.

Residency/Fellowship 102: Surviving the Credentialing Process and Beyond (Part 4 of 4)

Course Date/Time:  TBD 

Presented by: Greg Hartley, PT, DPT, GCS; Robert H. Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, FAAOMPT; Kendra Harrington, PT, DPT, MS, WCS 

Course Description: This session is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in credentialing or re-credentialing a clinical residency or fellowship program.  Learn about essential components of the credentialing process as well as expectations of a program post-credentialing.  Explore criteria used by the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education (ABPTRFE) during the evaluation of the program's credentialing application and site visit.  Program Directors, Administrators, members of ABPTRFE, and APTA Staff will be present to assist you in completing integral parts of your program's credentialing application.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  1. Describe the process for credentialing residency/fellowship programs through ABPTRFE.
  2. Describe the key expectations of the application review process.
  3. Identify expectations before, during, and after the site visit.
  4. Explain the differences between the various ABPTRFE credential statuses.
  5. Create a successful site visit schedule.
  6. List the major program responsibilities after credentialing.

Exhibit Hall

Visit the Residency/Fellowship booth located inside the Exhibit Hall to get additional information and guidance on developing and credentialing residency/fellowship programs; answers to your questions on residency and fellowship; and more.

Learn more and register now at www.apta.org/AnnualConference.

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