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Section on Geriatrics, APTA
Draft Minutes: 2008 Member’s Meeting

Clinical Residency 101: Getting Started and Doing It Well

Sunday, February 8, 2009, 12:00 pm–6:30 pm
6.0 Contact Hours

Presenters: Greg W. Hartley, PT, MS, GCS, Teresa L. Schuemann, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS, Kim Nixon-Cave, PT, PhD, PCS

This workshop is ideal for individuals and organizations interested in developing a credentialed clinical residency. Learn about the process from individuals who have guided their clinical residency through a successful credentialing outcome and from representatives of APTA’s Committee on Residency Credentialing. Innovative ways to address the credentialing criteria will be explored to make a clinical residency fit your unique situation.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Justify the rationale for a clinical residency that includes a discussion of the benefits and challenges.
• Assemble the necessary resources for the development of a clinical residency, including the development of unique partnerships.
• Market a clinical residency to administration and to potential residents.
• Formulate a budget and establish cost effectiveness of a clinical residency.
• Prepare an application for the credentialing process.
• Describe the mentoring process and its role in postprofessional education.
• Describe and list curricular components (clinical and didactic) in at least one specialty or sub-specialty area.

Cosponsored by the following APTA sections: Acute Care, Federal Physical Therapy, and Women’s Health. Members of the Section on Geriatrics and all cosponsoring sections register at a discount.

Mentoring the Clinician Beyond Entry-Level: Skills, Knowledge, and Behaviors for Successful Residency and Fellowship Mentoring

Monday, February 9, 2009, 8:00 am–4:30 pm
7.5 Contact Hours

Presenters: Carol Jo Tichenor, PT, Ivan Matsui, PT, FAAOMP, Gail M. Jensen, PT, PhD, Didi Matthews, PT, DPT, NCS

Professional competence goes well beyond technical skills. Competence builds upon a foundation of clinical skills, scientific knowledge, and moral development. Mentorship is a critical element in the formation of a professional. This course will provide the participants with in-depth instruction in the skills necessary for residency and fellowship mentoring and an opportunity to apply those skills in interactive problem-solving situations.

This 7.5-hour course is directed toward academic and clinical educators who are currently teaching in or considering developing residency and fellowship programs. The course will guide individuals in how to design, implement, and evaluate mentoring experiences in postgraduate residencies and fellowships. Topics will include: characteristics of a good mentor and how mentoring differs from traditional teaching, how to structure productive mentoring sessions to facilitate clinical reasoning, strategies for planning remediation sessions, methods for facilitating communication between faculty members and between faculty and residents, and assessment of the effectiveness of mentoring experiences.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the characteristics of a good mentor and relate to one’s own clinical teaching experience.
• Analyze and structure mentoring experiences to facilitate reflective thinking and enhance clinician growth.
• Guide the resident in implementing strategies for change.
• Design activities for developing and evaluating mentoring skills for new and experienced faculty members.

Cosponsored by the following APTA sections: Acute Care, Federal Physical Therapy, and Women’s Health. Members of the Section on Geriatrics and all cosponsoring sections register at a discount.

Medical Malpractice Claims: From Beginning Through Trial

Monday, February 9, 2009, 8:00 am–4:30 pm
7.5 Contact Hours

Presenter: Sheila K. Nicholson, Esq, PT, JD, MBA

This course will provide participants an overview of the primary causes of actions against physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, with an emphasis on medical malpractice claims. The key issues involved in documentation of these claims will be discussed, including examples from actual cases. The participants will then receive an overview of the legal system and how a claim progresses through its cycle. The program will culminate with a mock trial that utilizes the information discussed during the session and each participant will have the opportunity to deliberate as a juror and render a verdict. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify and summarize three types of lawsuits filed against PTs/PTAs.
• Identify and summarize the elements in a cause-of-action claim for medical malpractice.
• Identify at least five key documentation issues inherent to physical therapy medical malpractice claims.
• Identify key components in the litigation process.
• Identify key components of a trial involving physical therapy medical malpractice.

Cosponsored by the following APTA sections: Acute Care and Federal Physical Therapy. Members of the Section on Geriatrics and all cosponsoring sections register at a discount.

Sunday, February 8

• Clinical Residency 101
  12:00pm - 6:30pm


• SPC Meeting
  5:30pm - 7:30pm

Monday, February 9

• Medical Malpractice Claimes: From Beginning through trial
  8:00am - 5:30pm


• Mentoring the clinician beyond entry level: skills, knowledge and behaviors for successful residency and fellowship mentoring
  8:00am - 5:30pm


• Opening ceremonies
  7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tuesday, February 9

• GCS breakfast
  7:00am - 8:00am


• Multisection program
  8:00am - 10:00am


• Update on NPH: Medical and therapeutic interventions
  10:30am - 12:30pm


• Clinical exam and evidence based interventions to improve gait in older adults
  12:30pm - 2:30pm


• Maximizing skill development in cognitively impaired patients
  2:30pm - 4:30pm


• Exhibit hall unopposed
  4:30pm - 6:30pm


• State Advocate meeting in suite
  5:30pm - 6:30pm


• Bal/fall SIG mtg
  6:30pm - 7:00pm


• Paying Attention: making choices/the role of cognition in falls prevention
  7:30pm - 9:00pm


• Board meeting #1
  7:00pm - 10:00pm

Wednesday, February 9

• Osteoporosis SIG
  7:00am - 8:00am


• Skeletal Effects of Exercise/Mechanical Loading across the lifespan
  8:00am - 11:00am


• Platforms
  8:00am - 11:00am


• Exhibit hall unopposed
  11:00am - 1:00pm


• Program committee meeting in suite
  11:00am - 1:00pm


• Student Forum: Working with older adults can be fun
  1:00pm - 4:00pm


• PT Interventions Across Cultures and countries for patients with post polio and post stroke dx
  1:00pm - 4:00pm


• Continence and Active Aging: they can coexist
  4:00pm - 5:30pm


• How does this new study apply to my patient
  4:00pm - 5:30pm


• Members meeting and awards celebration
  5:30pm - 9:30pm

Thursday, February 9

• Health/wellness SIG
  7:00am - 8:00am


• The NCOA-Funded Chronic Disease Self mgt program
  8:00am - 11:00am


• Platforms
  8:00am - 11:00am


• Exhibit hall unopposed
  11:00am - 1:00pm


• SPC meeting
  11:00am - 1:00pm


• FUNctional evidence: New approaches to Functional therapy
  1:00pm - 3:00pm


• Alzheimers disease and exercise: evidence and anecdotes
  3:00pm - 5:00pm


• PT Mgt of nutritional deficits in the older adult
  3:00pm - 5:00pm


• Eugene Michaels Forum
  5:00pm - 7:00pm


• Board meeting #2
  7:00pm - 9:30pm