Electives - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Neuro-Rehab Elective

Elective Number: 3701 (arranged)

Rotation Supervisors: Dr. Paul T. Diamond

Designated Signer: Christine Baer - UVA Musculoskeletal Bldg. Ste 240; 243-5631

Evaluation should be given to: Dr. Diamond

Available: Periods 1-3 reserved for students with a career interest in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Duration: Maximum 8 weeks, Minimum 2 weeks

Report to: Dr. Diamond

Time to Report: 8:30 am

Place to Report: UVA-Health South Rehabilitation Hospital, 2nd Floor nurses station.

Typical day: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Attendance: Attendance at elective activities is mandatory.

• Anyone who is ill or has a personal or family emergency must contact Student Affairs and the Attending on Service.
• Students are allowed to take off up to 1 day per week to interview between November 1 and February 1.
  • Specific days missed must be approved by the Attending on Service.

Number of students per rotation: 3 

Course Description: The rehabilitation hospital includes specialized programs for persons with stroke, head injury, spinal cord injury, and multiple trauma/general orthopaedic conditions. Patients are managed by a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team which includes physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, social workers, a nutritionist, neuropsychologist and rehabilitation nurse specialists. Students work closely with all members of the rehabilitation team and observe in the therapy gyms a variety of specialized rehabilitation techniques including therapeutic exercise, ultrasound treatment, electrical stimulation, and aquatics therapy. Students begin to develop the necessary skills to effectively manage the inpatient rehabilitation programs of persons recovering from a variety of illnesses. Students also rotate on the inpatient consultation service for University Hospital. A didactics program is held weekly on Fridays. No weekend or on call duty is required.
 

Students interested in outpatient physiatry may participate one day a week in the outpatient clinics during this rotation or may opt for the full-time outpatient physiatry elective at the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation outpatient facility within the musculoskeletal center at Fontaine.
 

Goals and objectives:

• To learn about the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• To learn how to assess patients with newly acquired impairments and prescribe a rehabilitation program geared toward optimizing functional recovery.
• To develop skills in working with and managing an interdisciplinary team of therapists and other health care professionals within the rehabilitation setting.
• To gain exposure to therapeutic exercise, speech therapy, evaluation and management of dysphagia, modalities such as TENS applications and other rehabilitation techniques.
• To become familiar with commonly used functional assessment measures and methods for predicting recovery and functional outcome.

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