Introduction
The EVMS Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) offers a three-year residency training program (PGY2-PGY4) for a total of eleven residents. The program has been accredited since it was established in 1985.
General Description
The EVMS PM&R residency program provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient training experience for specialty care of patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal-cord injury, trauma, amputee, orthopedic/spine injury, sports injury, pain and neuromuscular disorders.
Acute inpatient care is provided at the 16-bed Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Rehabilitation Center, the 50-bed Riverside Rehabilitation Institute and the 8-bed Children's Hospital of The Kings' Daughters Rehabilitation Unit.
Outpatient adult and pediatric rehabilitation medicine is provided at Eastern Virginia Medical School, the Hampton Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sentara Healthcare clinics and the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters clinics. Outpatient care at these sites includes but is not limited to: general rehab, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury follow up, prosthetics and orthotics, spasticity management and pain management.
Electrodiagnostics is taught at all locations. Outpatient training for pain management includes medication management, team approach to chronic pain including on-site psycholigist support; and interventional procedure training including spinal cord stimulator trials, epidural steroid injections, sacroiliac injections, trigger point injections and peripheral joint injections.
Curriculum
Clinical rotations are scheduled in two-month blocks.
Our clinical curriculum is uniquely designed to provide a balanced inpatient and outpatient experience throughout the training program. This facilitates residents' development of specialized interests early on in their training and allows them to enhance their knowledge and skills in all areas throughout their training. There is one-on-one teaching with clinical faculty on all rotations combined with the junior and senior residents working together on many rotations.
6 Months Inpatient
(Sentara Norfolk General Hospital) |
Traumatic Brain injury, spinal-cord injury, stroke, orthopedic, trauma, neurologic |
| 6 Months Outpatient |
Acute musculoskeletal injury; acute and chronic pain; outpatient stroke, traumatic brain injury; spinal-cord injury; amputee; interventional spine; electrodiagnostics |
4 Months Pediatric Inpatient
(Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters and associated clinics) |
Cerebral palsy; trauma; pediatric hematology-oncology; muscular dystrophy; pediatric traumatic brain injury; spinal cord injury; spina bifida; spasticity management; stroke patients; electrodiagnostics |
| 4 Months Adult Inpatient |
Consults and electrodiagnostics |
| 4 Months Outpatient and Electrodiagnostics at Hampton VA Medical Center Clinics |
Musculoskeletal, neurologic and cardiac rehabilitation; orthotics and prosthetics; spinal-cord injury; chronic pain management; electrodiagnostics |
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4 Months Inpatient (Riverside Rehabilitation Institute)
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Traumatic Brain injury, spinal-cord injury, stroke, orthopedic, trauma, neurologic |
| 4 Months Outpatient and Electrodiagnostics at Hampton VA Medical Center Clinics |
Musculoskeletal, neurologic and cardiac rehabilitation; electrodiagnostics; prosthetics and orthotics |
| 3 Months Outpatient |
Musculoskeletal pain; sports medicine; electrodiagnostics; interventional pain management; day rehabilitation |
| 1 Month Elective |
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Didactic Curriculum
The core didactic courses are taught by faculty on Tuesday afternoons from 4-5 p.m. and for one hour on Friday mornings. The topics covered include:
- amputations and prosthetics
- brain injury
- burn rehabilitation
- business management
- cancer rehabilitation
- cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
- geriatrics
- industrial medicine
- joint and connective tissue diseases
- musculoskeletal injuries
- neuromuscular diseases
- pain management
- pediatrics
- spinal cord injury
- sports medicine
An additional two to three hours on Friday mornings are reserved for faculty and resident education including grand rounds, chairman’s rounds, electrodiagnostic case conferences, gait case conferences, basic science presentations, community faculty guest lectures, journal clubs, radiology rounds and other educational activities.
Research
All residents are required to complete at least one scholarly project for graduation. The program has had at least one resident project accepted for presentation at the annual Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation National meeting or the Association of Academic Physiatrists meeting each year since 1986.
For more information, contact:
Jean E. Shelton, M.D.
Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
721 Fairfax Avenue, Third floor
Norfolk, Virginia 23507-1927
Antonio Quidgley-Nevares, M.D.
Associate Program Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program
Adrian Lucas
Residency Coordinator
(757) 446-5915
Fax: (757) 446-5969
E-Mail:
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