Announcing: EIM Residency and Fellowship

As we've mentioned before, there's a lot happening at EIM these days, like last week's announcement of the Fit for Work partnership.  If you've visited the Evidence in Motion home page lately, you may have noticed a significant new link in the main navigation:  Residency/Fellowship. 

EIM has significantly increased our role in clinical education, and created the EIM Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency and the EIM Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy.  Our mission is to equip physical therapists to be become distinguished leaders in evidence-based orthopaedic and manual physical therapy practice. 

The programs are currently under review to obtain APTA credentialing.  Indeed, the programs were created in response to a call by the APTA for the development of post-professional clinical education programs such as residencies and fellowships in support of Vision 2020 and the development of skilled, autonomous practitioners.

About the Programs:

I urge you to visit the above link which provides an overview of both programs, including details about the curriculum and our clinical partners.  In short, the EIM Orthopaedic Residency is designed to prepare therapists for board certification in Orthopaedics.  The EIM Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy is designed for therapists who may already be ABPTS certified and provide them the clinical skills and didactic learning needed in the critical sub-specialty of orthopaedic manual physical therapy. 

The EIM Orthopaedic Residency and Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy programs are an intensive combination of didactic and clinical education experiences using a combination of distance learning, on-line courses, weekend intensive hands-on courses, and clinical practice hours. EIM highly leverages distance learning and other technologies (online Grand Rounds, Author in the Room, discussions via MyPhysicalTherapySpace, etc.) to maximize the learning experience and collaboration with other EIM Residents/Fellows-in-Training throughout the country. Both programs boast faculty who not only are clinical experts, but are often the drivers of research supporting orthopaedic physical therapy practice. 

Our Partners

EIM has has built a vast community of evidence-based practitioners, high quality employers, prospective employees, and is closely associated with many of the best academic programs and other key stakeholder groups around the country.  It is in these relationships where the true value of the programs lie.  Both the Residency and Fellowship are designed to take place within this network, providing therapists-in-training both the opportunity to learn in excellent settings and the flexibility required of a working professional.

Graduates of the residency/fellowship will be highly skilled autonomous practitioners who are critical thinkers, reflective, empathetic, and lifelong learners, representing the best clinicians in the physical therapy profession. They will be equipped with the skills necessary to teach, provide mentorship and train future EIM-Network Partner Residents/Fellows-in-Training.

We at EIM are excited to announce these programs and would like to extend our best wishes to our initial cohort of residents and fellows!

Visit us at www.evidenceinmotion.com or contact  us at info@evidenceinmotion.com for additional details.