Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency 

 Specialty Program

The specialty portion of the residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University consists of required rotations in adult and pediatric rehabilitation, outpatient care, electrodiagnostic procedures, pain management, rheumatology, community hospital rehabilitation, subacute, cardiac rehabilitation, sports and spine, and consultation. Applicants who will complete one year of a broad-based residency (family practice, pediatrics, internal medicine, flexible internship) at another institution are eligible for the three-year specialty program.

PGY II year

The PGY II year focuses on acquiring inpatient management skills as the resident completes the following rotations:

11 months inpatient - 1 month outpatient

• Bone and joint
• General rehabilitation
• Traumatic brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Amputee care

Outpatient experiences are provided throughout the three-year program with each resident 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

• 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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