Curriculum & Didactics – Sports Physical Therapy

The Sports Performance Track of the sports residency includes two major components:

Programming

The resident will use administrative and non-clinical time to dive deeper into advanced strength and conditioning programming for sports performance across the athletic career through readings, didactic content and discussions.

Coaching

The resident will spend coverage hours in the sports performance centers of Samaritan Athletic Medicine and Oregon State University applying sports performance principals, culminating in aiding SAM Elite with summer sports performance programs for middle and high school athletes, and assisting in the onboarding Bridge Program for OSU Athletics in June and July of their final year in the Residency Program.

The Research Track is designed to assist you in the research process. You will learn how to conduct a literature review, design a simple study, submit an IRB application, collect and analyze data, and disseminate your findings.

Purpose

To facilitate skills in research design, leadership, project management and critical inquiry in post-professional residency education with a focus in sports physical therapy.

The Division I Athletics Track allows the Resident to self-select a sport at the Division I level to potentially become more involved with – this involvement will always be contingent on the need and personnel available to make this a valuable experience. Once selected and approved by the Program Director/Associate Program Director and relevant OSU team staff, the Resident would be assigned to this team for the final 1-2 quarters of the Residency program.

This track allows the Resident to work alongside the team’s AT, AT students and coaching staff to collaborate on pre-habilitation, rehabilitation and practice/game coverage with the selected sport as needed.

The Outreach Athletics Track the Resident to increase involvement in the community at either the high-school or community college level – this involvement will always be contingent on the need and personnel available to make this a valuable experience. Once the school/sport level has been selected and approved by the Program Director/ Associate Program Director and relevant school program, the Resident would be assigned to this school more consistently than baseline Residency Program requirements for the final  to 2 quarters of the Residency program.

This track allows the Resident to work alongside the team’s AT, AT students and coaching staff to collaborate on pre-habilitation, rehabilitation and practice/game coverage with the selected sport as needed.