Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles
Orthopaedic Fellowship in Spine Rehabilitation

Kaiser Permanente, Southern California Region is proud to offer a clinical fellowship designed to provide highly trained orthopaedic physical therapists with advanced knowledge and have experience with a concentrated clinical environment.

The curriculum of this fellowship is designed to provide physical therapists with advanced training in clinical reasoning, examination, manual therapy, movement science and pain sciences. This program utilizes a broad-based, eclectic curriculum that will provide graduates with the ability to integrate advanced skills in advanced orthopaedic manual therapy techniques combined with advanced skills in movement analysis, motor control, biomechanics, and pain sciences to patients with spinal dysfunction in the acute to chronic states. The small group classroom and lab training sessions and one-on-one clinical supervision allow the clinical faculty to focus their instruction toward the individual needs of each fellow.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This fellowship begins in January of each year and runs for 50 consecutive weeks. The clinical training in this fellowship program is fulfilled in two ten-hour days per week and the classroom and lab training occurs during 41 weekend days and 3 weekdays. This format allows the fellows the time and flexibility to maintain or pursue their individual research, academic, clinical practice or personal commitments. Fours fellows are accepted to participate in the program each year. Two of the fellows are employed and provides patient care at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles facility and the other two fellows are employed and provides patient care at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles facility. The fellows are paid for the hours that they provide patient care at the Clinical Specialist I rate (In July 2008, the minimum pay level of this rate for a fellow became $34.034/hour with benefits, or $40.86/hour without benefits). The registration fee for the program is $500.00.

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CURRICULUM OUTLINE

Each fellow receives:

• 352 hours of classroom/lab instruction
• 150 hours of 1:1 supervision while treating patients
• 850 hours of unsupervised clinical practice
• 100 hours of patient care – collaborating with the Kaiser Permanente Family/Physical Medicine and Orthopaedics Department clinics

The content of the classroom instruction in this fellowship encompasses the following areas:

• Clinical Reasoning
• Movement Analysis
• Motor Coordination
• Clinical reasoning
• Manual examination and treatment of the spine
• Manual examination and treatment of the extremities
• Kinesiology/Clinical Biomechanics
• Gait/Human Locomotion
• Movement Analysis
• Motor Learning
• Motor Control
• Movement Impairment Syndromes
• Movement Impairment Diagnosis
• Movement Impairment Intervention Strategies Basic sciences and clinical research
• Pain Sciences
• Clinical research

CLINICAL FACULTY

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CURRICULUM COORDINATOR

To obtain more information about this fellowship, please contact:
Jason Tonley DPT, OCS | Jason.C.Tonley@kp.org
Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Programs
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department
6041 Cadillac Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Voice Mail: (323) 857-2531