neuro rehab

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sam pitroda said:
hello

how helpful is neuro rehab subspeciality in real practice? didn't find any info @ this subspeciality.
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Its very helpful if you work in a rehab hospital, its correlate is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) fellowship out of a PM&R residency. Its a rapidly evolving field, I know at The Kessler East Rehab hospital, the director of TBI is a neurologist (one of the few non-physiatrists on staff).

I did a rotation there, the basic thrust was trying to tailor phamacotherapy to particular brain dyfunction.

hope that helps.
 
would you choose neurology over PMR? i am confused or rather i like both of these specialities.
thanks
 
sam pitroda said:
would you choose neurology over PMR? i am confused or rather i like both of these specialities.
thanks
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I had the same dilema...I chose neuro.

Basically in pm&r the only thing I was really interested in was
TBI. I realized that neuro had the equivalent specialty with neuro rehab, and as well much much more fellowship options.

I actually did an subI in PM&R and really liked it, but in the end, I really do enjoy more acute care work.

Both are great fields.

ps. there are combined programs out there
 
hello again
i did not find any combined programs. could you tell me few ones??
thanks
 
sam pitroda said:
hello again
i did not find any combined programs. could you tell me few ones??

thanks
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I found a link that lists 3 combined PM&R/Neuro programs

COMBINED NEUROLOGY/PM&R PROGRAMS

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

University of Rochester Medical
Center
Rochester, NY

University of Cincinnati Medical
Center
Cincinnati, OH

http://www.physiatry.org/education/pdfs/apx2part3CombProgs.html


This is a link to a PDF from the ABPMR which has info about all combined PMR programs, including PMR/Neuro (page 13).

http://www.abpmr.org/downloads/appl...#search="neurology pM&r combined residencies"


I visited the websites of the three above schools, and I can't find anything about combined PM&R/NEURO programs.....you might want to contact them. In the document from the ABPMR it describes how you can set up your own dual program, but I am not sure how feasible that is..... I hope this helps some.
 
Currently, there are no combined PM&R/neuro programs. UIC has not had a PM&R residency for years.
 
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