Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency  - Categorical Program

The four-year integrated program at Northwestern University offers a broad-based year for a select group of medical school graduates. Residency in this first year complements the additional three years in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

PGY I year

• 4 months of internal medicine
• 3 months of neurology
• 1 month of emergency medicine
• 1 month of intensive care
• 3 months of adult rehabilitation

PGY II year

The specialty portion of the program consists of required rotations in adult and pediatric rehabilitation, outpatient care, electrodiagnostic procedures, pain management, rheumatology, community hospital rehabilitation, and consultation.

• 8 months of inpatient
• 1 month of outpatient
• 3 months medicine

Outpatient experiences are provided throughout the residency, with all residents participating in a weekly rehabilitation clinic and having the opportunity to participate in numerous specialty clinics such as:

• Chronic pain
• Sports medicine
• Urodynamics
• Foot and gait
• Post-polio
• Amputee

PGY III and IV years

The PGY III and IV years focus on a broad range of skills needed for practicing physical medicine and rehabilitation. Specific rotations are listed below.

• 1 months of supervisory rotations
• 2 months of consult rotations
• 4 months of elective rotations
• 2 months of pediatrics
• 2 months of chronic pain
• 1 month of prosthetics/orthotics
• 5 months of electromyography
• 1 month outpatient clinics
• 3 months selectives
• 1 month sports medicine
• 1 month rheumatology clinics and consults
• 1 month of cardiac rehabilitation/sports and spine
  2 weeks cardio/pulmonary and 2 weeks exercise physiology
  

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