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The University of Maryland Medical System conducts a joint Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program with Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. The program is fully accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Graduates of the joint program have the skills employers value in today’s market. Residents not only learn to manage inpatient rehabilitation and treat neuromusculoskeletal problems, they also learn to treat pain problems with such interventional procedures as acupuncture, soft-tissue injection and epidural anesthesia and facet blocks.

The Rehabilitation Hospital at Sinai has a 23-bed, comprehensive inpatient unit, a 13-bed neurological rehabilitation unit and a 10-bed head trauma unit, which serves cognitively impaired patients. With eight full-time physiatrists, Sinai offers a wide array of inpatient and outpatient services.

Residents spend two of their rotations training in the William Donald Schaefer Rehabilitation Center at the University of Maryland’s Kernan Hospital. Kernan, a 128-bed facility, offers rehabilitation and orthopaedic surgical inpatient and outpatient care for those with traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injuries, other neurologic impairments, and complex orthopaedic trauma.

During their major Kernan rotation, residents will learn to care for patients primarily with spinal cord injury and dysfunction, although they will also take care of some individuals with general musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. During a separate rotation, they will also be trained in sports medicine and the outpatient management of pulmonary diseases.

Along with the University of Maryland, Sinai Hospital also partners with the Baltimore Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents spend two 2-month outpatient clinic rotations at the VA, training in electrodiagnosis, acupuncture, anesthesiology, wheelchair and prosthetic prescription, and neurologic, rheumatologic and musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment.

Applicants can apply for the three-year residency-training program only after they have successfully completed a primary care clinical year prior to their rehabilitation training at the PGY-2 level. For applicants who want to begin their training at the PGY-1 level, there is also a four-year program. This program includes a preliminary year in Internal Medicine at Sinai Hospital.

For more information about the Residency Training Program, visit the Sinai Hospital Web site.