Congratulations Shawn!

Congratulations to Shawn McAdams, C.P., for passing his board exams and becoming an ABC Certified Orthotist. The American Board for Certification in Prosthetics and Orthotics offers the highest certification in the profession, requiring a four-year bachelors degree, training in the fabrication of prosthetic and orthotic devices, a graduate certificate like the one Shawn earned from Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, and finally a year-long residency each for orthotics and prosthetics.

While most states require professional certification and licensure for doctors, therapists, nurses, and hairdressers, currently only eleven require that prosthetists and orthotists get certified and licensed. Illinois does, but Missouri doesn't. Still, all of P & O Care's practitioners on both sides of the river have graduated from Northwestern University, and our residents work under proper supervision until they pass their boards.