12-Month Orthopedic Residency
Leading to a Doctoral Degree in Orthopedic Manual Therapy (DMT)

Our DMT degree program provides an excellent opportunity for licensed physical therapists to earn a degree in orthopedic manual physical therapy while maintaining your practice and serving your patients.

Overview

The Ola Grimsby Institute's Orthopedic On-Site Residency Program is offered throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. This one-year DMT program provides an excellent opportunity for licensed physical therapists to earn a degree in orthopedic manual physical therapy while maintaining your practice and serving your patients.

Participants in this program are licensed physical therapists who hold a Master's or a Bachelor's degree and who wish to offer an orthopedic manual physical therapy philosophy within their clinical practice.

Formerly a two-year course, this postgraduate program now can be completed in just one year through evening or weekend courses.

Students will receive the DMT curriculum on CD-ROM, and will also meet in a classroom setting that includes didactic instruction and lab experiences with an OGI instructor. The class schedule may vary from site to site, depending on the schedule established by individual OGI instructors.

The OGI's on-site residency provides a superior learning experience to each student participant, due in part to the personal attention and interaction provided to each student as well as the level of continuity provided by maintaining the same instructor(s) for a twelve month period.

Program Components

• In class hours: 965
  
  
• Out of class hours: 561
  
  
• Students will meet 24 weekends (including Practical/Written Exams on the last weekend) over a 12-month period with an OGI faculty member.
  
  
• Students are also required to attend the two-day course, Introduction to Spinal Manipulation and a five-day Clinical Problem Solving course.
  
  
• 1:1 clinical mentoring hours - 150
  
  
• Students will perform 150 hours of 1:1 clinical supervision with an OGI faculty member. There is no fee for this clinical supervision; however, the student is responsible for all costs related to performing this clinical experience. Students are required to have the following items in order to complete the clinical supervision:
  
  
  • Physical therapy license.
  • Proof of liability insurance to cover clinical experience (if necessary).
  • CPT certification
  • HIPAA Certification (this can be obtained online)
  • OSHA Blood Borne Pathogen certification
  • TB/Hepatitis B/Immunizations (obtain from family physician)
    
    
• Supervised Clinical Hours: 440

Students are required to perform an additional 440 hours of clinical supervision that can be performed at the student's routine work environment; however, they will be in contact with an OGI faculty member via phone, e-mail, or other method of communication during that clinical time.

• Research Portfolio: The Portfolio is a written record of the student's efforts to identify literature pertaining to the research topics they select, to allocate this literature to the most appropriate sections of a research proposal format that is compatible with the level of development of the literature supporting their topics, and to compose full-blown synopses of the articles they have allocated to these proposal format selections. The Portfolio development process involves interactions with Personal Research Mentors who are assigned to students whose role it is to lead the students through each activity in the process. The Mentor provides the students with handouts that describe each of the steps, receives homework assignments from the students, and reviews the homework (offering suggestions for improvement where appropriate). When the Portfolio is complete, the students schedule Oral Defenses with the Director of Research, who both mentors them in their preparations for the Oral Defense and leads them through it. When students have responded to any suggestions for improvement for emerging from their Oral Defenses, the Director guides them through the process of binding their Portfolios.
  
  
• Students are not required but are encouraged to attend additional courses that include:
  
  
  • 3-day Summary of Extremities
  • 3-day Summary of Spine
  • 2-day STEP Extremity Lab
  • 3-day STEP Spine Lab
    
    
• During the program, residents are responsible for all travel and lodging costs that they incur.

Exams

Before completion of each program, students must pass written and practical/clinical exams. Upon successful completion of the written and practical exams, as well as defense of the research requirements, students are issued the appropriate certificate and/or doctoral degree. For further information regarding the testing mechanisms please see the OGI Examination Policy.

Doctor of Manual Therapy (DMT) Application Requirements

12-Month Orthopedic Residency and 12-Month Independent Study

• Demonstrated interest in further professional development as documented in the OGI Orthopaedic Residency Application.
• Demonstration that the student is actively working in an orthopedic setting.
• Proof of licensure to practice physical therapy within their current practice setting.
• Demonstration of eligibility for membership in the national orthopedic parent body.