responses
Allen Dolberry
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Title:
responses
Creator:
Allen Dolberry
Date:
7/17/2013
Text:
Here are a few responses.
Hi Allen,
We have done residencies off and on for many years and finished our last one
in 2012. Be prepared to create a curriculum and plan regular meetings to
create a successful NCOPE residency. It is a lot of startup work, so doing
it for one person may not give you the ROI you want. It is an important
function and you may be surprised what you learn from it, so there are many
positives. I have some philosophical problems with NCOPE shifting the
schooling onto private business who generally are not equipped and staffed
to be educational systems as NCOPE outlines in their manual.
Pat Peick CPO
I have hosted 3 residents over the past few years. I did so with the intent of them staying as practitioners. Long story short…be very critical of their experience. Schools (particularly NUPOC) are not doing a good job of educating them. I have been fortunate in the sense all have been good self motivators and took the initiative to educate themselves prior to there formal schooling. The stories I have been told by the residents about some of their classmates are sad. The schools are $ driven and not looking to produce the best students.
Be prepared to invest a great deal of time training mod's particularly AK socket design. I deal primarily in prosthetics and that is my experience thus far. The program itself is rot with a great deal of paperwork (online) though NCOPE states the program is not inundated they are wrong. They are not in the trenches as we are and I have had a number of calls with them discussing how their program must change. Good luck and hope this was helpful.
Christopher Jones, CPO
Rebound Prosthetics, Inc.
P: 303-832-7287
F: 303-830-0327
There is a lot of information on the NCOPE website for both residents and residency directors. Your sight needs to be NCOPE approved. The steps to this process are available on the website. Once you are approved there are fees to have a resident. I think it is $1500. The resident has quarterly evaluations/requirements that are monitored through NCOPE. At the completion of the residency the resident is then eligible to sit for the boards (more fees - sometimes covered by company, sometimes the resident). I think resident salary would range anywhere from $28k to $35k. I haven't heard of higher than this from any of my peers.
Laura S. Nuckels
Hi Allen,
We have done residencies off and on for many years and finished our last one
in 2012. Be prepared to create a curriculum and plan regular meetings to
create a successful NCOPE residency. It is a lot of startup work, so doing
it for one person may not give you the ROI you want. It is an important
function and you may be surprised what you learn from it, so there are many
positives. I have some philosophical problems with NCOPE shifting the
schooling onto private business who generally are not equipped and staffed
to be educational systems as NCOPE outlines in their manual.
Pat Peick CPO
I have hosted 3 residents over the past few years. I did so with the intent of them staying as practitioners. Long story short…be very critical of their experience. Schools (particularly NUPOC) are not doing a good job of educating them. I have been fortunate in the sense all have been good self motivators and took the initiative to educate themselves prior to there formal schooling. The stories I have been told by the residents about some of their classmates are sad. The schools are $ driven and not looking to produce the best students.
Be prepared to invest a great deal of time training mod's particularly AK socket design. I deal primarily in prosthetics and that is my experience thus far. The program itself is rot with a great deal of paperwork (online) though NCOPE states the program is not inundated they are wrong. They are not in the trenches as we are and I have had a number of calls with them discussing how their program must change. Good luck and hope this was helpful.
Christopher Jones, CPO
Rebound Prosthetics, Inc.
P: 303-832-7287
F: 303-830-0327
There is a lot of information on the NCOPE website for both residents and residency directors. Your sight needs to be NCOPE approved. The steps to this process are available on the website. Once you are approved there are fees to have a resident. I think it is $1500. The resident has quarterly evaluations/requirements that are monitored through NCOPE. At the completion of the residency the resident is then eligible to sit for the boards (more fees - sometimes covered by company, sometimes the resident). I think resident salary would range anywhere from $28k to $35k. I haven't heard of higher than this from any of my peers.
Laura S. Nuckels
Citation
Allen Dolberry, “responses,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/235418.
