Year I DMT Orthopedic On-Site Residency 8-Month

Overview

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.

The Ola Grimsby Institute is pleased to offer our newest degree program, the Doctoral Degree in Manual Therapy (DMT) 8-month program. This program is designed for those individuals who participated in the 4-month or 12-month Clinical Certification Program and wish to continue their education towards a DMT degree.

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.

OGI's 8 month DMT program consists of two phases, the Clinical Certification and the On-Site 8-Month DMT Residency, which can be completed in as little as one year, or two years if the physical therapist chooses to take the 12-month CCP one year and continues with the 8-month DPT the following year. OGI has designed these courses with the practicing therapist in mind, and students may choose from on-site residency and independent study formats.

The following program components describe the 8-month On-Site Residency option of our DMT degree program.

Program Components

• In Class Hours - 824 hours (excluding Clinical Certification Course)
  
  
• Out of Class Hours - 514 hours (excluding Clinical Certification Course)



• Students will meet 15 weekends (including practical/written exams) over an 8-month period with an OGI faculty member.
  
  
• Students are also required to attend the 2-day course, Introduction to Spinal Manipulation, as well as the 5-day Clinical Problem Solving Course.
  
  
• Students are not required to attend any other additional courses, but are encouraged to attend these recommended courses:

• 3-day Summary of Extremities
• 3-day Summary of Spine
• 2-day STEP Extremity Lab
• 3-day STEP Spine Lab

• 1:1 Clinical Mentoring Hours - 150 hours
  
  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:

• Licensure in state where clinical experience is being performed
• Proof of liability insurance to cover clinical experience (if necessary)
• CPR 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 hours
  
  Students are also required to perform an additional 440 hours of clinical supervision that can be performed at the students routine work environment, however, they will be in contact with an OGI Faculty member via phone, e-mail, etc during that clinical time.
  
  
• Research Portfolio: The Portfolio is a written record of the students 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 sections. The Portfolio development process involves interactions with Personal Research Mentors who are assigned to students and 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 emerging from their Oral Defenses, the Director guides them through the process of binding their Portfolios.
  
  
• During the program, residents are responsible for all travel and lodging costs that may be incurred.

Doctor of Manual Therapy (DMT) Application Requirements

8-Month Residency or 8-Month Independent Study Residency