#44 Practice First, Residency Later: with Dr. Matt Pomeroy

Where was your mind halfway into residency? See this world through Dr. Cody Ballay's eyes, as he takes us inside the mind of an Ortho Resident. Cody is undergoing residency at The Ohio State University (also where he got his DPT from) and played baseball/completed his undergraduate studies at Malone University.

Ever royally fail at life? Us too. Get Nick's biggest take aways from fellowship and our ever growing argument for the value of residency/fellowship training.

Julia is back and better than ever! She is new and improved and The Post-Doc PT Experience is proud to have witnessed her transformation first-hand. Julia currently works for the University of Pennsylvania as a physical therapist and is currently studying for the orthopedic specialist examination. Tune in to hear about Julia's reflections on residency and where it took her career. We apologize in advance for the technical difficulties with this episode. 

This episode features Nick's take aways from the annual manual therapy conference. We apply these lessons to PT practice in our differing clinical contexts.

This episode with both your co-hosts is chock full of reflections from the past couple weeks as well as great conversation (in our opinion) about landing your dream job and education. 

Zach is now finishing his Orthopedic Residency with Jefferson University and joins us to look back on his experience. He shares his favorite and not-so-favorite things about residency training, he discusses the difference between "years of experience" and "clinical experiences", and then our conversation somehow ends up in the world of the current state of physical therapy practice. Tune into this episode for a free advertisement of what residency training can do for you. Tell all your friends and classmates! Reach out to us on social media and we'd love to have you on the show!

We are back folks (and with a great episode)! Nick and I have both been busy personally and professionally as we are currently undergoing transitionary phases of our careers. Listen to Nick talk about his newest opportunity, but even more importantly listen for where this conversation goes. We discuss how residency/fellowship might position you to be a leader in the field, we discuss how "clinical experience" is only as good as your experiences, we discuss some interesting new data in the world of what residency/fellowship trained clinicians do with their careers. This episode is a real doozy with lots to be learned. Please reach out to us if you agree or disagree with anything we discussed. We'd love to have you on our show and learn from you. 

Should you wait to do a Residency or just do it right out of PT school? Matt Pomeroy, PT, DPT, OCS offers his unique perspective on this age old question as well as many more knowledge bombs in this week's episode. Matt is a residency trained Physical Therapist at Children's Hospital Colorado as well as a TA in the University of Colorado's PT Department. 

You ever get frustrated with treating [chronic pain]? In a rut right now professionally? Give this episode a listen. Featuring: two newly minted Orthopedic Clinical Specialists 

Toilet talk eh? It was an idea that sprung while sitting on the ceramic throne and it sparked much of this episode's conversation. Tune in for a peak at where Nick and myself are at with our clinical practice. Do we pursue opportunities to add tools to our tool box or do we need to work more on being systematic with our approach? Is it okay to "slack off" after post-doc training? What lessons were learned this week? - These are just some of the topics explored in this episode.