Northwestern University Offers Master’s in Prosthetics and Orthotics (MPO)

Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center (NUPOC) is pleased to announce that the Feinberg School of Medicine unanimously approved the curriculum for a new Master’s in Prosthetics-Orthotics (MPO) program.  The NUPOC MPO is a competitive, 20-month postgraduate degree that offers clinically focused education in a research-rich environment.

Building upon the innovative Blended Learning format developed for NUPOC’s successful post-graduate Certificate programs in Prosthetics and Orthotics (P&O), MPO students will complete their first two quarters online from the convenience of their homes.  After demonstrating proficiency in fundamental concepts, students move to Chicago for four intensively focused quarters (11 months) of supervised clinical education.  During the on campus practicum, MPO students apply their knowledge and develop skills in assessment, design, fitting, and evaluation of trial prostheses and orthoses for Educational Models who have amputations and other physical disabilities.  The final quarter offers students the opportunity to focus on a specialty area before beginning their residency.

­Founded in 1958, NUPOC is the largest and oldest education program of its kind in the hemisphere, currently graduating approximately 40% of all nationally Certified Prosthetists and Orthotists in the USA.  In 2010, Northwestern University’s internationally distinguished prosthetics-orthotics research laboratories and educational programs merged and moved into a custom-designed, award-winning site in Chicago’s historic, lakefront 680 Building.  For additional information, please visit www.nupoc.northwestern.edu or contact:  nupoc@northwestern.edu.