This field of medicine provides comprehensive specialty services and selective primary care to the large spectrum of individuals with disabilities and limiting physical conditions.
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is one of the largest medical rehabilitation programs in the country. There is a broad range of clinical, educational and research services available, providing comprehensive care for the disabled. The department collaborates its skills and activities with many other affiliated medical and surgical specialties, as well as with rehabilitation teams. Rehabilitation medicine utilizes a team approach to the treatment of disabilities.
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Clinical and research learning opportunities are available in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, brain injury and stroke rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, neurological and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, medical-legal evaluations, sports medicine, geriatric rehabilitation, electrodiagnostic medicine, exercise physiology, biomedical engineering, clinical outcomes management, and primary care of disabled individuals. Learning experiences include inpatient and outpatient settings, specialty and primary care clinics, and clinical research laboratories. These hands-on learning encounters are reinforced by lectures, discussions, seminars, journal clubs, grand rounds, and structured readings. Students, residents and fellows focus on developing practical skills in solving common and unusual problems in order to enhance the function and quality of life of individuals with physically limiting conditions, and in collectively contributing to the advancement of the science underlying those solutions.