About RPI:

Rehabilitation & Performance Institute, PSC (RPI) is a physical-therapist owned company established in 2016. RPI has 5 locations: Owensboro, KY, Albion, IL, Mt. Vernon, IN, Newburgh, IN, and Hawesville, KY. Each clinic was established in a community where our team was rooted and involved, in order to provide healthcare changes to the communities we love.

At RPI, we provide a model that emphasizes patient-centered care and compassion through one-on-one treatment sessions with a client throughout the course of their care. This allows for an environment in which the complex orthopaedic patient can thrive and the provider can make appropriate, clinical decisions that are in the patient’s best interest in a sound learning environment.

Furthermore, we believe in heavily investing in our team, interprofessional teams and communication, continuing education and excellence, leadership development and mentorship, and business consulting.

About Our Residency Program:

Together with the University of Evansville, Rehabilitation & Performance Institute, PSC offers a 14-month physical therapy outpatient orthopaedic residency in our Owensboro, Kentucky location that allows you to participate in one-on-one mentored patient care with expert clinicians and caregivers in an outpatient orthopaedic setting.

This program allows licensed physical therapists to advance their knowledge by incorporating classroom knowledge and psychomotor skills through face-to-face interaction, weekend intensives, online learning, and small-group discussions.

Graduates of the residency program are prepared to sit for the Orthopaedic Specialty Examination at the completion of the program.

Highlights of this program include:

• Direct 1:1 clinical mentoring with physical therapists, chiropractors, and additional health care providers in the community
• One-on-one patient care time with no overlap in care between patients to allow you to fully invest in the person right in front of you
• Leadership training to prepare you to excel in the clinic for a clinical and business perspective
• A supportive team atmosphere that is passionate about our communities and our profession
• Compensation (including benefits) for non-mentored hours of patient care
• Weekly participation as a lab instructor in University of Evansville’s advanced orthopaedic and elective movement systems courses in the physical therapy program
• Discussions facilitated in small group “think tank” discussions, in-services, five weekend intensives, and didactic coursework
• Investment in the community around us through community screens, events, and classes.
• Opportunities to participate in ongoing research projects at the University of Evansville, as well as institute your own case study or project independently with the assistance of highly experienced researchers.
• Preparation for the OCS exam

We believe that through the experiential residency training model, we can develop and cultivate professionals who are deeply rooted in continued clinical excellence, and who thrive in the profession through leadership and research.

By investing our time in growing the clinician in their individual treatment style while melding evidence-based practice with functional movement systems and manual therapy, we feel we are impacting the provider and the communities in which we live and work.

At RPI, we value interprofessional communication and interdisciplinary treatment approaches to find the best whole-person treatment for the client in front of us. We provide structured wellness experientials and opportunities to gain a greater appreciation for other conservative disciplines.

Our academic partner, The University of Evansville, has many scholarly resources and houses a state-of-the-art movement analysis laboratory where the resident has the access and freedom to develop new research ideas. There are also opportunities to participate in the classroom setting with DPT students and develop as educators.

We believe that residency training is a stepping stone in one’s professional development over the course of their lifetime. It inspires the individual to continue to learn, step up into leadership positions, and continue growing our body of knowledge as physical therapists.