Services

Continuing Education

Skill Works is dedicated to the highest quality physical therapy education possible. We provide courses that:

 

  • Are evidence-based
  • Are highly interactive
  • Have a low student to instructor ratio in labs
  • Ensure learning takes place (utilizing competency testing when possible)
  • Are accessible (learn it and use it!)

 

We are also dedicated to the development of residency education programs and offer consultation services for new and existing programs.

 

Our aim is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of physical therapy patient management. Please check out our upcoming courses!

Rob Landel | Physical Therapy Continuing Education

Consultation Services for Residency and Fellowship Programs in Development

Residency education will play an important role in the physical therapy profession’s future. Consistent with the pathway to specialization used in medicine, physical therapists will one day achieve Board Certification after graduating from a residency and sitting for a written exam. This of course is not the current reality (2023), mainly for practical reasons: there aren’t enough residency programs to accommodate all the entry-level DPT graduates. Nearly 7,000 PTs graduated from 401 residency programs (vs. 60 graduates from 24 programs in 2006), and over 2500 fellows graduated from 48 fellowship programs. While this is incredible progress, we have a long way to go to arrive at the future: over 13,ooo DPT degrees were awarded in 2021.

Physical Therapy Consultants | Skill Works Physical Therapy Education

Dr. Landel has extensive experience with residency program development. In addition to founding and directing the USC Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program, he served four years (two as chair) on the the Clinical Residency and Fellowship Program Credentialing Committee. During his tenure the number of credentialed residency and fellowship programs increased from 9 to 33, including the first residency programs in Neurology and Gerontology.

 

He continues his advocacy of long term continuing education and the development of residency programs through Skill Works by providing consultation services to new programs. Besides getting the USC Orthopedic Residency program credentialed by the APTA, he assisted in getting the USC Neurologic Residency program credentialed. Dr. Landel has consulted with many other programs in their pursuit of credentialing, including the first credentialed pediatric residency program.

 

A free, one-hour consultation, by phone or in person, will provide the steps and identify the resources necessary to start organizing a new program. Further consultation can be negotiated on a fee for service basis. Services include:

 

  • Development of the mission, goals and objectives;
  • Identification and organization of resources;
  • Curriculum development;
  • Resident/fellow evaluation;
  • Program evaluation;
  • Review and/or preparation of credentialing application;
  • Preparation for the credentialing site visit.