STUDENT PROGRAM UPDATE

By Juliann Chacko, Student Program Coordinator & Orange Assistant Director

2023 Superstar Clinical Instructor Recognition

June is the month when the PTSMC Student Program recognizes our Clinical Instructors. In the pat year, over 50% of PTSMC's clinicians worked with students in some capacity. THANK YOU to all who supported these students and the program!

The CI Recognition Program, celebrates CI's who hosted their 1st student and every 5th student. This is the program's 3rd annual recognition, to honor the dedication to advancing clinical excellence and those who go above in beyond as a CI!

2023 Superstar CIs

First time CIs in 2023:

Alyson Whelan

Colin Ketchel

Craig Katko

Dan Pagliuca

Jared Schi er

Liz Miller

Liza Peressini

Nic Sauerbrunn

Quinn McAnaney

Roy Colter

Xantiana Sanchez

*data tracked since 2016

CIs who have hosted 5-9 students*

Emily Searle

Erik Schmitt

“Giftogram" gift cards, certi cates and PTSMC swag with special "Clinical Instructor" designation (new this year!) will be gifted to those receiving recognition.

Interested in becoming a CI? Please reach out to Juliann.Chacko@ptsmc.com to learn more!

Students starting this month:

Lianna Hagen (UCONN) will be working with Emily Pelz in Waterbury

Rutvi Shah (UCONN) will be working with Natalie Peterson in Plainville.

Oskar Toro (UCONN) will be working with Je Hoerst in Glastonbury.

Paige Brunner (UCONN) will be working with Vlad Smolgovskiy in West Hartford.

Bradley Owaka (Boston University) will be working with Keely Yarish in Avon.

Sara Swetland (Spring eld College) will be working with Chaylea Finn & Colin Ketchel in Branford.

Mitch Wright (Spring eld College) will be working with Rebecca Petrosino in Fair eld.

Kevin Howard, PT, DPT, Orange Natalie Swanson, PTA, Lock Street

The graduates were asked to re ect on their DOCS Program experience and share the most in uential parts of the program, as well as what they look forward to pursuing next for continuing education.

Kevin: The most in uential aspect to the DOCS program would be the mentorship program. It was super bene cial to have clinicians from di erent backgrounds, areas of expertise, and clinics come in to collaborate with and learn new treatment techniques from. I am hoping to expand my skills as a PT with continuing education focused on sports-related injuries and/or pediatric therapy.

Natalie: The most in uential part of the DOCS program for me was the mentoring sessions. I really appreciated each mentor that came in and took the time to review skills and potentially challenging cases. This time really helped me solidify the reasoning I had already developed, and new skills learned during the classes.

I hope to continue to develop each course material further and then teach fellow clinicians the new skills for better the standard of care across the board to continue promote our PT for Life mission!

July 25th from 12-1:30pm PTSMC Wethers eld

Meet with Dr. Alex Dukas & Dr. Christian Merrill of Orthopaedic Sports Specialists. RSVP to Janet.Tarasuk@ptsmc.com by July 23rd.

Deadline to apply is July 30, 2023!

Acceptance decisions will be made in September 2023 for start date in December 2023.

***Applicants must have a valid PT license prior to the start of the residency program***

Learn more and apply online at: www.ptsmc.com/residency

Please email Danielle at Danielle.Dunn@ptsmc.com with any questions.