The OMPT Fellowship became a 15 month program with a focus on mentoring and metacognition, integrating clinical expertise, patient preference and best evidence into the advanced clinical reasoning process of patient management.

Kaiser faculty traveled outside of Kaiser to provide mentoring, allowing PTs to stay in their current jobs (and with their families) while in the Fellowship and Mentorship.

In 2008, the program transitioned into a hybrid in-person and on-line program, allowing therapists to continue working at their jobs full time, study the didactic components at home online, and attend weekend labs—our current structure.  Years of notes from our…