It offers an exciting variety of inpatient and outpatient training at university hospitals, VA medical centers and private hospitals. The medical center is the only academic facility for the entire state of Kansas insuring a wide variety of exciting and challenging cases.
Residents participate in primarily outpatient programs.
The VA has a comprehensive spinal cord injury program as well as a large number of patients with amputations in the outpatient clinic. This is a computer based rotaton site to identify specific clinical out comes. Research Medical Center is the flagship institution for Health Midwest, the largest hospital organization in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. In addition to a focus on spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries, the institute has a comprehensive day treatment program. Four acute care Level I Trauma Facilities use Rehabilitation Institute as their primary rehabilitation referral hospital and therefore many of Kansas City's catastrophic trauma cases are admitted to this facility.