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FLAOrthoPT -> Re: Manual certification programs (December 14, 2005 11:02:00 AM)
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I would love to see the research about improved clinical outcomes with advanced professional degrees. I truly feel that you would see higher efficiency and possibly better outcomes. I do think that the FAAOMT for example is somewhat of a guru in the orthopedic field. I do think from wokring with therapists and staffing over 400 therapists a year, that the ones with more initials after their name at least demonstrate a responsibility to the profession and a need to learn more and not be stagnant. Are there PTs with no initials and a bachelor's degree that are amazing?! of course!!!!!But I think the whole reason people with higher advance degrees get hired in any profession is because it demonstrates a person who is willing to be a life long learner, someone who has a thirst for knowledge, someone who can stick to something once they start, etc, etc. Advanced certifications and schooling absolutely should mean a better therapist. I would have to think that if you had 100 PTs and 50 had no advanced training, and 50 had OCS or some other advanced training, you would see higher competency in the advanced degree group. This is an impossible research to perform though because A)of course there will be some very good non advanced clinicians, but mainly because you cannot have any blind study with the same patients being treated. Maybe the only way to do it is to have case study exams, and see how each performs on the test.
I do not think everyone needs to have advanced training, nor do i think I am better than someone for having it. But my thirst for knowledge to treat those tougher patients and be efficient in treating leads me down the paths of higher and higher education, hence obtaining my DPt this summer, getting my OCS and taking way too many cont ed courses. But I have not taken any specific certification because I see value in learning many schools of thoughts, and do not see any value in obtaining a certfication that costs me that much money that the day before taking I am the same therapist and now after paying a couple of thousand I am better? I also do not think the public or even many PTs know the difference or what a CFMT, or a CMT, or a COMT, FAAOMT, etc even is. So, congrats to those who obtain it, I do think it says a lot, and if I had to find a therapist for a friend in another state, I always look for at least an OCS but preferable a CFMT, COMT, etc after their name. Sure, the guy next door to them may be awesome, but there is a certainty in the proficiency of the therapist who has taken the time and skills to obtain these further degrees.
Now, I am not bashing or promoting specific systems, like the CFMT, I think someone asked which we recommend, and that is the one I recommend. Based on MY experiences with the courses. I have taken courses with all of the systems, and I said it was MY opinion. I have taken all of level 1 and 2 of the canadians I mean 57 different stress tests for the feet is a bit absurd considering the treatment is going to not change much even with that higher knowledhe, mckenzie (donot believe in most of it), paris (worthless watered down), mulligan (good theory when applied to other techniques), CTI and LPI of the IMTS global, FO1 of the ipa, i own the book MET and beyond of weiselfish I like it, i have maitland's two books on vertebral manip not too bad, recently i have taken 2 IAOM courses and love their evidence backed teachings and how they talk about the need for identifying both the structural and functional processes causing pain. So, all of this is based purely on my opinion, based on which ones are useable systems, and based on which systems give me results.
Ok talk to you soon I am sure,
need to go shoot some hoops-
Ben
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