Post-Graduate Year 2

• Inpatient rehabilitation services, including care for patients after a stroke, spinal cord injuries, organ transplants, cancer, amputations and many other disabling conditions: about nine months.
• Outpatient rehabilitation clinics where residents gain experience with numerous musculoskeletal injuries: about two months.
• Academic development to begin a research, educational or quality improvement project: one month.

Post-Graduate Year 3

• Pediatric rehabilitation: two months inpatient and two months outpatient.
• Outpatient rotations, including musculoskeletal/sports medicine, pain management and pediatric rehabilitation: six months.
• Consultation and subacute rehabilitation rotations: two months.
• Elective: one month.

Post-Graduate Year 4

• Outpatient rehabilitation services (about eight months) and inpatient rehabilitation services (about two months).
• Senior residents will have the opportunity to supervise junior residents during the inpatient rotations.
• Clinical rotations include brain injury, electrodiagnostic medicine, and neurologic and musculoskeletal physical medicine clinics.
• Elective: one month.

Didactics / Conferences

• At least four hours of conference time each week specifically targets the goals of the PM&R curriculum. Resident didactics are structured into a comprehensive 12-month topic cycle, including two hours of faculty lectures alternating physical examination skill workshops, case presentations, prescription writing workshops and journal club. The instruction incorporates active styles of learning.
• Each individual institution has targeted lectures throughout the week on topics including pain medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics and general rehabilitation.
• All residents complete supported courses in musculoskeletal examination, electromyography, prosthetics and orthotics, and research techniques.
• Monthly grand rounds and journal clubs.
• Individual educational stipend to use for instructional materials and regional, national or international courses.
• Clinical case review with department chair. Oral board review with residency program director.
• Visits to community programs, including sailing and horseback riding, for people with disabilities.

Research

• The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has a wide variety of research opportunities, including brain injury and concussion rehab, ICU rehab, long-term sequelae of spinal cord injury, pain and disability, prosthetics with neural control, swallowing impairment and international rehab.
• Extensive research opportunities are also available outside of the department.
• Our residents published 13 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in 2017.
• Top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding among PM&R departments.