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Educational & Clinical Experiences - Acute Care Physical Therapy Residency
Didactic learning is offered primarily through weekly residency lectures and labs. A comprehensive curriculum covering all aspects of treatment of patients in the acute continuum of care across the lifespan will be provided. Guided research activity is threaded throughout the program with the residents choosing a project based on their interests and available resources.
The program's comprehensive curriculum is developed from the published Acute Care Practice Analysis (Gorman et al, 2010). All curriculum components complement each other to enhance the participant's learning. The organization of the program's curriculum ensures congruency between didactic and clinical components. The curriculum provides a structure for the designation of types, lengths and sequencing of learning experiences that ensures the achievement of the program's outcomes.
A Week in the Life of an Ochsner Acute Care Resident
Rotations
- Two Community Hospitals
- Flagship Hospital
- General Med-Surg Units
- Specialty step-down floors (cardiac, oncology, transplant, orthopedics, neurologic, emergency department)
- ICU (cardiac, neurologic, medical, surgical)
- Pediatrics (ICU and step-down)
- Orthopedics Hospital
- Women’s Health Hospital
- Neonatal ICU
- 4 week elective rotation
Clinical Practice
- One-on-one Mentoring: 3 hours
- Patient Care: 30 hours
Didactic
- Lecture and Labs: 5 hours
- Journal club: 30 minutes
Additional Opportunities
- Physician Collaboration: multi-disciplinary team rounding and surgery observation
- Research: All residents will participate in the critical inquiry process with opportunities to develop research project designs that can be submitted for IRB approval.
