Rehabilitation Medicine Service Residents will be responsible for doing electrodiagnostic studies and consultations. During this rotation, residents are responsible for adminstering medical and rehab care for patients with mostly chronic spinal cord injuries. Orthopaedic Service Management of orthopaedic problems. Opportunities are available for interested senior residents to learn joint injections, facet injections, etc. During this rotation, the residents attend hip, knee, and shoulder clinic along with orthopaedic residents.
Residents get plenty of opportunity to do various joint evaluations and injections.
This resident is responsible for the history, physical examination, rehabilitation plan and rehabilitation orders of the patients in the hospital needing rehabilitation management. This resident also attends specialty clinics involving pediatric care. Zale Lipshy University Medical Center Zale Lipshy University Hospital is a 160 bed private, non-profit, tertiary referral hospital associated with UT Southwestern. There are two residents per rotation at this facility managing a twenty bed inpatient rehabilitation unit. This is a general rehabilitation unit which involves the spectrum of rehab patients.