Residency Overview

The rehabilitation residency program offers three positions in each of the three years of formal rehabilitation training: PG-2, PG-3 and PG-4. In the formal three- year program, residents receive training in the basic sciences relevant to physical medicine and rehabilitation. The clinical program includes training in all aspects of acute and chronic disabilities related to physical medicine and rehabilitation.

The program emphasizes rehabilitation medicine's relationship to a broad spectrum of physical disorders, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, other neurological disorders, cerebral palsy and other developmental disability, orthopedic conditions, musculoskeletal disorders, acute and chronic pain, cancer, cardiopulmonary disorders, and post-polio syndrome. Residents learn the appropriate use and prescription of prosthetic and orthotic devices, wheelchairs, and other assistive aids.

The training program includes a firm grounding in electrodiagnostic medicine (electromyography, nerve conduction studies, neuromuscular junction testing). Residents are also instructed in diagnostic and therapeutic injection techniques including trigger point, joint, bursa, and image-guided spinal injections.

Training is conducted at the UW Hospital inpatient rehabilitation unit and at various UW-Health outpatient clinic facilities. Residents also receive training through the rehabilitation program at Gundersen Clinic and LaCrosse Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Residents are encouraged to propose and participate in research studies. Residents may choose from a broad range of research areas, both within the Department and in other collaborating departments and research institutes.

Rehabilitation    UW Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
First published: 12/25/02 Last updated: 05/12/08 webmaster@surgery.wisc.edu
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