Pelvic and Women's Health Physical Therapy Residency

HonorHealth's Pelvic and Women's Health Residency Program is officially developing and is located on the ABPTRFE Online Directory of Programs.

Mission statement

The pelvic and women’s health residency program is committed to providing evidence-based pelvic and women’s health education. The program supports improved patient outcomes through focused mentoring, expert-level instruction, teaching and scholarship. Our program is dedicated to continuous improvement and strategic initiatives that enhance patient care and overall clinical practice.

We achieve our mission by emphasizing the following areas within our program:

• Clinical reasoning: Residents will participate in weekly 1:1 mentoring sessions with pelvic floor specialists (120+ hours total) to help challenge and advance the resident’s clinical reasoning.  The development of clinical reasoning is vital to a therapist’s ability to treat complex patients and to improve patient outcomes. Residents will treat patients and engage in mentorship at three unique hospital-based outpatient clinics to gain exposure to all the facets of pelvic health practice.
• Psychomotor skill development: Residents will refine their hands-on practice through advanced lab instruction across relevant body regions. Our labs cover examination techniques as well as expert-level manual therapy treatment approaches with direct faculty instruction.
• Content knowledge: Our program offers expert-level lectures that go beyond the ABPTRFE program requirements. The lectures are instructed by our pelvic floor specialists to promote the continuation of learning and pelvic and women’s health content expertise.
• Teaching exposure: Residents will have the opportunity to participate in lecture preparation and/or presentation(s) for local DPT programs. Residents will take the APTA Level I Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program during the program year and have the opportunity to participate as a clinical instructor for a DPT student rotation.
• Research/scholarship: Through required case studies and literature reviews, our residents will gain valuable exposure to scholarly activity and evidence-based care. Residents will have the opportunity to submit their case studies to CSM as well as expand their research involvement per individual resident interest.
• Professional development: In addition to pre-scheduled opportunities, residents will have the chance to customize their professional development projects per individual interest. Examples include, but are not limited to, assisting with scholarly activity/research, participating in continuing education courses, multidisciplinary observation, and promotion of community health/wellness.
• Specialty preparation: Residents will read current evidence-based research articles and Clinical Practice Guidelines put out by the APTA Academy of Pelvic Health over the course of the year with faculty-led case studies and mock-exam questions to help residents prepare for the WCS examination.