Elective rotation is available to senior residents with any GME-affiliated program within McGovern Medical School. Previous elective rotations include (but are not limited to) musculoskeletal radiology, acute pain management service (APMS), hyperbaric medicine and wound care, interventional spasticity management, acting attending position at community rehabilitation hospitals, or protected research time.
Outpatient selective rotations are outpatient rotations available with our department (TIRR Outpatient clinic, TIRR Interventional Procedure clinic, ROH Spine and MSK Clinic, UT Physicians Sports Medicine Clinic, among others)
PGY-1
Our PGY-1 internship is a special collaboration with UTHealth Houston’s Internal Medicine residency program. There is excellent exposure to general medicine wards (4 months) and critical care medicine (1 month) at Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center or Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Harris Health). The remainder of time in internship is spent in physiatry-relevant subspecialty experiences, such as neurology, cardiology, rheumatology, palliative care, infectious disease, geriatrics, anesthesia pain management services (APMS), and ambulatory medicine subspecialty clinics.
1:1 Faculty teaching with excellent procedural exposure in spasticity management (including botulinum toxin and phenol injections, intrathecal baclofen pump trials and management) and other ultrasound-guided procedures
16 bed, In-hospital rehabilitation unit, following traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, polytrauma, organ transplantation, and complex medical courses including LVAD services
Opportunities for private practice experiences with accomplished physician-educators like Brian Bruel, MD and John Cianca, MD
Training in ultrasound-guided joint/MSK injections, fluoroscopic-guided spinal injections, and other pain management procedures including spinal cord stimulators, peripheral nerve stimulators, and other diagnostic and procedural injections
PM&R Consult Services at Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Harris Health)
Limb Loss Rehabilitation Clinic at TIRR Memorial Hermann’s West University location, a multi-disciplinary care site with physicians, physical and occupational therapists, prosthetists, and orthotists working together
Consults at Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center
Multi-disciplinary Limb Loss Rounds on inpatient services at TIRR Memorial Hermann
