• 1:1 clinical mentoring hours - 40
  
  
• Students will perform 40 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 II Orthopedic Fellowship 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.

• PhD Dissertation: Year 3 is the completion of the PhD Dissertation development process and uses the students approved Proposals as the point of departure for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting the data and composing the Dissertation manuscript. As was the case in the two previous years, completion of the Doctoral Dissertations involves interactions with the Personal Research Mentors who were assigned in year 1 and whose role continues to be leading the students through the activities associated with collection of their data and the composition of the Dissertation manuscript (students who need assistance in analyzing and interpreting their data can obtain the services of methodologists/statisticians for this purpose). As was the case with the Dissertation Proposals, the DSC Chairs and Members provide suggestions for improvement, after the students and their Mentors have produced a complete copy of the Dissertation manuscript. Once the DSCs have approved the Dissertation manuscripts, students schedule Oral Defenses that will take place in early December in Salt Lake City, on days/times that are compatible with the schedules of their DSCs. Following successful completion of their Oral Defenses, students respond to suggestions for improvement that may grow out of their Oral Defenses, produce clean copies of their Dissertations, obtain the signatures of their DSCs, and participate with the Vice President for Research in their binding and distribution.
  
• During the program, students are responsible for all travel and lodging costs that are incurred.

Exams

Before completion of each program, students must pass a Practical/Clinical exam. Upon successful completion of the practical exam, students are issued a certificate of completion. For further information regarding the testing mechanisms please see the OGI Examination Policy.