ORTHOPAEDIC PHYSICAL THERAPY RESIDENCY

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The LSU Health Shreveport Orthopaedic Residency Program began in 2007 with an emphasis on preparing its graduates with advanced knowledge and skills in managing patients with orthopaedic conditions.

The program is built on the belief that mentoring the next generation of physical therapists through a year of specialized clinical skill development will benefit the profession, but more importantly, the people our profession serves. 

Our program offers residents the best of both academic and clinical environments. This combined setting has proven highly effective, allowing residents to gain unique experiences in an academic-clinical atmosphere. These include attending conferences, participating in rounds, and observing surgeries at a Level I Trauma Center. Moreover, residents have the same access and privileges as faculty members within the DPT program, since it is located within the same building as the primary practice location of the residency. The primary practice location for our residents is the LSUHS School of Allied Health Faculty Practice Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic on the ground floor of the School, where program mentors practice themselves, and are available throughout the day.

   

In 2024, the program was granted a full 10-year re-accreditation by the ABPTRFE. The program has consistently met and exceeded the high standards set by ABPTRFE to achieve this distinction. Recent developments in the program include providing residents with the opportunity to serve as clinical instructors in the DPT program, as well as assisting with didactic education in the DPT Orthopedic curriculum. Additionally, our program offers comprehensive instructional content beyond the clinical setting. This includes advanced anatomy and biomechanics, a review of the latest evidence-based physical therapy practices, advanced manual therapy, teaching and learning strategies, and functional rehabilitation techniques.

CURRICULUM

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Our Mission

Prepare physical therapists with advanced knowledge and skills for the clinical management of patients/clients with orthopaedic conditions. This process will occur in a culture/environment of learning and shared governance, emphasizing the importance of lifelong learning as a key to maintaining high-level, evidence-based practice.

In accordance with the new vision of APTA to, “Transform society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience,”1 we aim to influence not only our residents, but our profession and community. Through offering a quality, integrated, patient-centered post-doctoral training program, we aim to have a lasting impact on our environment by changing the culture of healthcare wherever our program is involved. This starts by ensuring quality preparation for all our faculty and residents, and ensuring the effects are observed over time.

1Apta.org. (2018). Vision Statement for the Physical Therapy Profession and Guiding Principles to Achieve the Vision. [online] Available at: http://www.apta.org/Vision/ [Accessed 19 Feb. 2018].

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Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Outcomes

Graduation rate: 96% 
Retention rate: 96% 
Pass rate: 95%  pass rate for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties Orthopaedic Specialist Certification Exam

   

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PROGRAM GOALS

  1. The program will uphold the mission of LSU Health Shreveport by providing an increased number of clinicians with an advanced level of clinical training and education in the area of orthopaedic physical therapy, as defined by the Description of Specialty Practice (DSP) and Description of Residency Practice (DRP). (Outcomes 1 and 2)
  2. The program will prepare the resident for successful completion of the ABPTS orthopaedic specialty examination, and practice at an advanced clinical level. (Outcome 3)
  3. The program will value and emulate independent, self-determined professional judgement within our scope of practice, consistent with the profession’s codes and standards and the patient/client’s best interest. (Outcome 4)
  4. The program will advance the residents’ proficiency in the application of collaborative team-based care, consistent with patient-centered care. (Outcome 4)
  5. The program will prepare the resident to use evidence and outcome measures to promote expert practice, efficacy, and cost effectiveness of physical therapy interventions. (Outcome 5)
  6. The program will provide the resident with experience in both the didactic and clinical teaching environment, as part of a teaching culture inherent to the university and profession. (Outcome 6)
  7. The program will continue to develop and recruit specialist faculty, sustain and build relationships with other professions, and serve the university/community. (Outcome 7)

   

Giving Residents what they need to be successful as their own independent expert clinician.

   

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. The resident will pass practical examinations with rubrics based upon the DSP and DRP, in addition to written examinations. 
  2. The resident will provide high-level, specialized management for a diverse population of patients presenting with pathologies consistent with those enumerated in the DRP.
  3. All graduates will sit for, and have success on, the ABPTS OCS examination.
  4. All residents and graduates will demonstrate their professional judgment via self and peer assessments in order to demonstrate their compliance with the profession’s codes and standards.
  5. All residents will yield positive trends in their patients’ outcomes throughout the course of the program.
  6. All residents will have taught in the DPT curriculum both clinically and didactically during their residency, and will continue to in some manner post-graduation.
  7. Continued sustainability will be achieve through: residency faculty will be provided with continuing education opportunities, the residency will have working relationships with other disciplines within or outside the university, and the residents and faculty will serve beyond the physical therapy program and be valued as contributors via financial support.
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CONTACT US

Nick Russell, PT, DPT, OCS
Orthopaedic Residency Program Director
Nicholas.russell@lsuhs.edu

Allied Health Rehabilitation Clinic
318-813-2970

ACCREDITED PROGRAM

The LSUHS Orthopaedic Residency Program is accredited by the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education as a postprofessional residency program for physical therapists in orthopaedics.