Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital

Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital is composed of a chronic care hospital and a nursing home. Each resident spends one rotation as a geriatric physiatrist consultant to Levindale. During this rotation, experience is obtained on the 16-bed geriatric rehabilitation unit, the subacute rehabilitation service and the consultation service in the chronic hospital and nursing home.

The Kennedy Krieger Institute

The Kennedy Krieger Institute provides specialized training in pediatric rehabilitation. It has a 15-bed pediatric comprehensive neurorehabilitation unit, and inpatient and outpatient consultation services and clinics. Residents spend one rotation at this site.

The Veterans Administration Medical Center

Affiliated with the University of Maryland Medical System, the VAMC emphasizes training in neurologic, rheumatologic and musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment, and electrodiagnosis. There are also opportunities to work with an anesthesiologist (and participate in pain injection procedures) and to work in an acupuncture clinic. Residents spend two rotations at this site.

William Donald Schaeffer Rehabilitation Center at the James Lawrence Kernan Hospital of the University of Maryland

Kernan Hospital is a rehabilitation and orthopedic surgical center that offers inpatient and outpatient services. Comprehensive and subacute inpatient rehabilitation programs in the 120-bed facility provide care in specialized units including traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord and multiple orthopedic trauma. Outpatient care of orthopedic and rehabilitation disorders, including electrodiagnosis and comprehensive spasticity management, is available. The two PMR resident rotations include the spinal cord injury unit, which provides training experiences in inpatient and outpatient management of traumatic spinal cord injury and spinal cord diseases (three months); and in specific rotations (one month each) focusing on outpatient rehabilitation management of pulmonary diseases, general musculosketal and neurological disorders, and sports medicine. A one-month elective is based at this site.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Residents gain additional experience in electromyography and evoked potentials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (one-month rotation).

Didactic Program

In addition to the preceptor method of teaching utilized in each rotation, there is a mandatory formal didactic component of the educational program. Additionally, residents are sent to a prosthetic/orthotic course and attend other educational programs unique to each rotation.