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GENERAL INFORMATION<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. This program is accredited by the American Physical Therapy Association.<\/p>\n

This fellowship begins in March of each year and runs for 50 consecutive weeks. The clinical training in this fellowship program is fulfilled in four 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. Up to six 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, Kaiser Permanente South Bay facility and the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles facility. The fellows are paid for the hours that they provide patient care at the Clinical Specialist Fellow rate (In 2025, the minimum pay rate for a fellow is\u00a0 $52.468\/hour with benefits or $62.961\/hour without benefits)<\/strong>. The registration fee for the program is $2000.00.<\/p>\n

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CURRICULUM OUTLINE<\/h2>\n

Each fellow receives:<\/p>\n