About
The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Student Interest Group
was created with the purpose of increasing awareness of PM&R and helping
interested students in pursuing a career in Physiatry.
Physiatrists tend to the assessment, care and management of a wide array
of extremely complicated medical issues (e.g. Traumatic Brain Injury,
Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, Orthotics/Prosthetics, Sports
Medicine, Pain, Musculoskeletal and
Neurologic deficits, Rheumatologic ailments, Cardiopulmonary
Rehabilitation and many others)
with a mind and plan to maximize functional outcomes, to help
reconstitute the best possible Quality Of Life for
patients.
We will seek opportunities to enrich the medical school curriculum with
exposure to the clinical reasoning, purpose and need for Rehabilitation
in the lives of our patients. Interested students
can look forward to talks with invited PM&R specialists, residents,
patients and disability advocacy groups from around our community and
the country. Students contemplating residency
training in PM&R will have a resource of ever-increasing information
regarding the specialty, the nationally available programs and advice
for how to best plan and navigate the application process.
Our group's advisor is Dr. Steve R. Williams, who is the Chairman of the
PM&R department.