The Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency at UW Health is a full-time, 13-month program that begins at the end of June and concludes in July of the following year. The program accepts one applicant per year.
About our program
Residents will have the opportunity to work through the continuum of pediatric physical therapy including acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), outpatient physical therapy services, birth to 3, pediatric specialty clinics, school system and Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND).
While the resident is rotating through all of these settings, they will have consistent time blocked each week to treat patients at American Family Children’s Hospital and the University Ave Rehabilitation Clinic. By participating in both inpatient and outpatient settings simultaneously, the resident can follow a patient through different stages of their care. This approach allows the resident to observe and understand the nuances of each setting as they work with the same patient across multiple environments.
The resident will receive one-on-one mentoring in all the major practice settings. Mentors will be assigned by the program.
Residents are compensated as part of a stipend package. This is approximately 70 percent of a full FTE salary. In addition, residents receive a benefit package that includes health insurance.
Accreditation
ABPTRFE has granted American Family Children’s Hospital and UW Waisman Center candidacy status. Candidacy status signifies satisfactory progress toward accreditation. Achieving candidacy status is not an indication that ABPTRFE will grant initial accreditation. Participants who graduate from a program in candidacy status are not deemed to have completed an accredited program.
The program hopes to successfully receive accreditation prior to the first resident graduating from the program.
Contact information
Mary Erdman, MS, CCC/SLP
Program Director
(608) 263-8060
merdman2@uwhealth.org
Sangeeta Patankar, DPT
Program Coordinator
spatankar@uwhealth.org
Recruitment Center
(608) 263-6500
careers@uwhealth.org