ORTHOPAEDIC RESIDENCY

Program Overview

Together with the University of Indianapolis, Body One Physical Therapy offers a 12-month orthopaedic residency program to promote continued learning, improve clinical confidence, and grow manual therapy skills for Physical Therapy graduates.

The program includes one-on-one mentoring with orthopaedic clinical specialists, didactic learning through bimonthly curriculum, and labs to promote strong manual therapy skills. Mentors in the program are trained to challenge the residents’ critical reasoning skills and patient management strategies to ultimately improve patient outcomes.

To complement the clinical learning, residents are given a stipend from Body One and UIndy to be utilized for continuing education courses. Residents also have access to resources such as Current Concepts of Physical Therapy for self-guided learning. Residents will spend 8-10 hours on campus working as a graduate assistant for UIndy’s DPT program and 35 hours in the clinic at Body One per week.

To date, our Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist pass rate is 100%. An orthopaedic residency is considered a fast track to obtaining the OCS.

Mission

The residency program promotes excellence, professionalism, and integrity in advanced practice and prepares graduates who have expert knowledge and skills in orthopaedics for autonomous practice and leadership roles within the profession.