Education & Training
LEADERSHIP & FACULTY
Driven to provide high quality care.
Teaching faculty strive to produce effective leaders in the field of Neurologic Physical Therapy with a focus on community care. Delivering high-quality care to the greater Lehigh Valley community through a nationally recognized sponsoring institution is directly in line with the mission of St. Luke’s University Health Network: ‘Provide patients and the community with the best care, and to advance medical practice and technologies through quality research and innovation'.
We accept up to 3 NPT residents per year.
PROGRAMS GOALS
Ensuring success of our residents.
The goals of the Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency program are as follows:
- Improve your knowledge and skills: Foster an environment that facilitates and accelerates therapists to attain the highest level of care through knowledge and use of advanced evidence-based clinical skills and to ensure successful completion of ABPTS neurologic clinical specialist exam.
- Improve your clinical decision making: Foster an environment to maximize clinical proficiency with clinical decision-making and psychomotor skills.
- Become a leader: To develop leaders in the field who help bridge the gaps between practice patterns utilizing EBP and enhance interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes and spread awareness of evidence-based neurologic physical therapist practice.
- Improve your profession: Enhance the field of physical therapy by providing future clinical educators and researchers.
How to Apply
Submit your application to be considered for the St. Luke’s Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Program.