Midwestern University’s College of Health Sciences is launching a master of science in O&P (MSOP) program at its Glendale, Arizona, campus. The 30-month program is set to begin in August, with an anticipated class size of 20 students.
The program “will prepare students to be capable orthotist and prosthetist clinicians and crafter of technologies through a process of specialized coursework in conjunction with systematic applied clinical, technological, and scientific inquiry experiences,” according to the university’s website.
The 156-credit hour curriculum consists of two connected phases of learning: a 12 month on-campus didactic-formative phase, and an 18-month off-campus evidence-based practice phase.
In the didactic phase, students will engage in clinically oriented coursework involving client-centered assessment and treatment, movement sciences, anatomical and physiological sciences, orthosis/prosthesis engineering design and crafting, scholarly inquiry, and interprofessional collaboration. During the 18-month residency/evidence-based practice phase, students will be matched to a series of planned residency site rotations involving a network of clinical site preceptors and faculty that guide students to achieve individualized learning goals.
