Well, here goes my first, of hopefully many blogs that I am going to create as I work on developing a Sports Residency Program. I figured it would be most appropriate to introduce myself and the program in this first blog and explain why we have decided to develop a sports residency program. I hope others will be able to find this blog useful and interesting.
I graduated from an APTA credentialed Orthopaedic Residency Program in 2010 and since then have had a desire to assist in the development of physical therapy residency programs. Upon completing my residency, I took a job at Premier Physical Therapy and Sports Performance in Middletown, Delaware. Premier is a PT owned and operated private practice with 2 offices in Delaware. The residency will be based in our Middletown office which has 3 full-time PTs plus one of the owners who practices part-time. Our facility is built on a mentoring model in which we greatly value evidence based practice and advanced clinical skills. All of our clinicians are either OCS or SCS and it is a goal of ours to help foster advancing clinical skills in other PTs. We act as a clinical affiliation site for several graduate PT students each year and would like to be able to expand this to mentoring other PTs wishing to advance his/her practice. Our clinic is affiliated with 2 local high schools which gives us direct access to a large athletic population which would provide a sports resident with ample learning opportunities. We feel that the experiences that we have had and our current specializations make us a perfect site for development of a successful Sports Residency Program.
Next week I plan to blog more on how we are now beginning to develop our program and where we chose to start. This is process is both exciting and challenging and we look forward to the development over the next several months!
Jen Flug PT, DPT, OCS
Premier Physical Therapy and Sports Performance
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