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Clinical Residency 101: Getting Started and Doing It Well

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
7.5 Contact Hours

Presenters: Greg W. Hartley, PT, MS, GCS, Teresa L. Schuemann, PT, DPT SCS, ATC, CSCS, Kim Nixon-Cave, PT, PhD, PCS

This workshop is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in developing a credentialed clinical residency. Learn about the process from individuals who have guided their clinical residency through a successful credentialing outcome and from representatives of APTA’s Committee on Residency Credentialing. Innovative ways to address the credentialing criteria will be explored to make a clinical residency fit your unique situation.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Justify the rationale for a clinical residency that includes a discussion of the benefits and challenges.
• Assemble the necessary resources for the development of a clinical residency, including the development of unique partnerships.
• Market a clinical residency to administration and to potential residents.
• Formulate a budget and establish cost effectiveness of a clinical residency.
• Prepare an application for the credentialing process.

Cosponsored by APTA’s Section on Women’s Health. Members of the Section on Geriatrics and all cosponsoring sections register at a discount.

Residency and Fellowship Mentoring: Advancing the Resident and Developing the Faculty

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
7.5 Contact Hours

Presenters: Carol Jo Tichenor, PT, Ivan Matsui, PT, FAAOMP, Gail M. Jensen, PT, PhD, Cathy H. Ciolek, PT, DPT, GCS

Professional competence goes well beyond technical skills. Competence builds upon a foundation of clinical skills, scientific knowledge, and moral development. Mentorship is a critical element in the formation of a professional. This course will provide the participants with in-depth instruction in the skills necessary for residency and fellowship mentoring and an opportunity to apply those skills in interactive problem-solving situations. The session will include opportunities for application and discussion of these skills through authentic, interactive problem-solving situations.

This 8-hour course is directed toward academic and clinical educators who are currently teaching or considering developing residency and/or fellowship programs. The course is designed to guide individuals in how to design, implement, and evaluate mentoring experiences in postgraduate residencies and fellowships. Topics will include: characteristics of a good mentor and how mentoring differs from traditional teaching, how to structure productive mentoring sessions to facilitate clinical reasoning and decision making, strategies for mentoring the challenging resident, planning remediation sessions, methods for facilitating communication between faculty members and between faculty and residents, and assessment of the effectiveness of the mentoring experiences. Participants will also learn strategies and be introduced to tools that are part of the professional development learning continuum for physical therapists as they progress towards advance practice through residency, clinical specialization, and beyond.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the characteristics of a good mentor and relate to personal clinical teaching experience
• Structure and analyze mentoring experiences that build on the core components of reflective thinking and sound clinical reasoning principles
• Develop strategies for addressing common mentoring challenges in the residency and fellowship program learning environment
• Guide the resident in a critical self-reflective process that includes identifying targeted learning strategies for improving performance
• Design activities for developing and evaluating a mentoring program for new faculty members

Cosponsored by APTA’s Section on Women’s Health. Members of the Section on Geriatrics and all cosponsoring sections register at a discount.

The Therapeutic Use of Yoga to Prevent Falls and Reduce the Risk of Falling in Older Adults

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
7.5 Contact Hours

Presenter: Kathleen K. Zettergren, PT, EdD

Yoga has previously been shown to improve cardio-respiratory function and reduce anxiety, depression, stress, and low back pain. Having optimistic beliefs and positive attitudes enhances the mental health of older adults even in the presence of physical decline. Yoga represents one of the top 10 most commonly used alternative therapies and is often available to community-dwelling older adults. Physical therapists are uniquely qualified to provide therapeutic yoga to older adults in a safe, effective manner. This course will enable the physical therapists to use the literature related to fall prevention, balance, and strengthening in older adults to design yoga programs to target the specific bodily functions in older adults that contribute to falls.

Note: Participants will actively participate in yoga moves.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Define yoga and describe the most popular forms of yoga taught in the United States
• Utilize current research in developing programs in therapeutic yoga
• Define falls and describe current falls statistics
• Identify common musculoskeletal contributions to falls in older adults
• Perform several basic yoga postures and discuss how these postures may prevent and/or reduce common ailments as described in current literature
• Describe and demonstrate modifications of yoga postures for the older adult
• Describe and perform an introductory yoga class designed to target balance, falls, and fall prevention

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