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2024-2025 Course Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Course Catalog
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ORTE 2780 - Orthotic Technician Clinical

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: During this 120-hour orthotic clinical, students are placed in an orthotic facility or department.  This clinical experience provides opportunities to apply theory and skills learned in the program.  All student work is performed under the direct supervision of a certified orthotist or clinical supervisor in each clinical facility. This course requires completion of all ORTE program curriculum.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): Instructor consent
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Facility checklist
    1. orientation
    2. safety procedures
    3. facility policies on duty day
  2. Professional skills evaluation
    1. responsibilities
    2. resourcefulness
    3. initiative
    4. neatness

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. apply the theory and skills learned in the program to actual fabrication tasks under the direction of a certified orthotist or clinical supervisor in each facility.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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