We offer a 12-month program that generally starts in September. Employment begins a couple of months prior to that so you are comfortable in your clinic setting before starting your residency. The residency is offered in partnership with Evidence in Motion.
Hybrid Format
- Didactic course mix of synchronous and asynchronous virtual environment
- Four eight-week core management courses
- Four specific orthopedic topic courses
- Virtual rounds
- Four weekend primarily lab-based courses (hosted in Green Bay or Chicago area)
- Mentorship 150 hours
- Mentorship provided by residency/fellowship trained clinicians that have gone through the same program and have years of mentoring experience
- Mentoring: About five hours weekly with resident’s patients
- Works in the same clinic with mentor
- Capstone OCS prep course
Time Commitment
Expectations: About 10 to 15 hours a week outside of work hours
Process
If you are not a current Froedtert & MCW employee, you need to apply for the PT/resident position. This position is posted annually at jobs.froedtert.com under the Mequon Health Center location.
Apply to Froedtert & MCW health network first (which would also include a short essay application). Once you are offered and accept the position, you will need to apply to EIM.
Tuition
Tuition is $13,500 with a 15% discount — approximately $11,500. Froedtert & MCW health network pays 40%, approximately $4,600, while you pay 60% — approximately $6,900 payable in a quarterly check. We send the full quarterly payment to EIM.
Benefits of the Residency Program
You will grow at an accelerated rate as a clinician due the continued didactic course work, hands on lab weekend intensives and 150 hours of one-on-one mentoring with a team of mentors with decades of experience as a mentor.
- Mentoring is with your own patients and is spaced out about four to five hours on a weekly or biweekly basis to allow you the time to reflect and work on implementing what you have learned during the session.
- You learn and are able utilize a patient-centric framework that helps guide your clinical decision making for the rest of your career.
- We prepare you to sit for the Orthopedic Certification Specialist Exam in one year instead of the normal two years that’s required without residency.
- You will be integrated into clinical leadership roles helping with skill labs, developmental programs, mentoring and other programs as well as many teaching as adjuncts in the local area.
- Residents generally seek to continually grow and have further opportunities with the fellowship and DSc programs.