• In class hours: 744
  
  
• Out of class hours: 513
  
  
• Students will meet 12 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 2-day course, Introduction to Spinal Manipulation.

• 1:1 clinical mentoring hours - 100
  
  
• Students will perform 100 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:
  
  
  • Completion of Year I Orthopedic DMT Residency Program
  • 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.

• Dissertation Proposal: The research product, which the DMT fellows have the opportunity to produce, is called the Doctoral Dissertation. The portion of the DMT research requirement that fellows complete during the second year Fellowship is called the Dissertation Proposal. The Proposal uses the fellows Research Portfolios as a point of departure and is a written record of residents efforts to state specifically the purposes of their dissertations, document the importance of these purposes, define key terms, set forth the parameters, specify hypotheses to be tested, provide a complete survey of the literature, describe the research design, specify the sources and kinds of data to be collected, describe approaches to data collection and the analysis techniques that will be employed, set forth any limitations that may have emerged in the proposal development process, present annotated outlines of the ways in which their findings will be reported, and conclude their Proposals with lists of references and appendices. Like the Portfolio development process, development of the Dissertation Proposal involves interactions with Personal Research Mentors who were assigned in year 1 and whose role is to lead the residents through each activity in the Dissertation Proposal process. The Mentor provides the fellows with handouts that describe each of the steps, receives homework from the residents, and reviews the homework (offering suggestions for improvement where appropriate). When the Mentors determine that the Proposals are complete, The Director of Research helps the residents to assemble Dissertation Supervision Committees (DSCs), which are composed of two of the Institutes Research Fellows, one to serve as Chair and one to serve as Member of the DSC (the Director of Research also serves as a Member on each of the DSCs). Chairs and Members review fellows Proposals, offering suggestions for improvement, and formally approve the Proposals, indicating that residents are ready to begin data collection.
  
• 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, students are issued a certificate of completion. For further information regarding the testing mechanisms please see the OGI Examination Policy.

Benefits:

• Upon successful completion of the program, the student can apply to the AAOMPT as a Fellow. The student is responsible for acquiring the necessary paperwork from the AAOMPT and submitting it to the OGI.
• Internationally recognized US membership at IFOMT.
• The Fellowship program is the highest level of education credentialed by the APTA.
• Prerequisite for attending Clinical Specialization in Manual Therapy as well as our Ph.D. Program (Year III Ph.D.)