Curriculum
PGY-1 year: Preliminary medicine year at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC). All interns will spend one month doing inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital.
PGY-2 year (all rotations one month unless otherwise specified):
- Inpatient stroke
- Outpatient neurorehab
- Inpatient brain injury (2 months)
- Patient safety/quality improvement (2 weeks)
- Prosthetics/orthotics (2 weeks)
- Inpatient musculoskeletal (1 month)
- Inpatient general rehabilitation (2 months)
- Outpatient sports/spine
- Inpatient cardiac rehab
- Inpatient spinal cord injury
- Outpatient pain medicine or elective
PGY-3 year (all rotations one month unless otherwise specified):
- EMG (3 months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – cannot rotate at this site if you have dual citizenship)
- Outpatient pain medicine or elective
- Inpatient spinal cord injury
- Inpatient consults (at MedStar Washington Hospital Center)
- Inpatient pediatric rehab
- Outpatient pediatric rehab (Children’s National Medical Center)
- Inpatient stroke
- Elective or outpatient sports/spine
- NIH Outpatient/consults
- Outpatient at Washington DC VA Medical Center
PGY-4 year (all rotations one month unless otherwise specified):
- Inpatient consults (MWHC)
- Inpatient musculoskeletal
- Elective (2 months)
- EMG (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)
- Outpatient orthopedics or pain medicine
- Elective or outpatient rotation (variety of diagnoses)
- Outpatient cancer rehabilitation
- Outpatient spine/sports (2 months at MedStar NRH at McLean)
- Inpatient brain injury
- Outpatient neurorehabilitation