STUDENT ELECTIVES MED 545-S Rehabilitation Medicine I. Descriptive
Information
Department: MEDICINE
Pre-requisite: Medicine 531/532
Duration: 4 weeks, all blocks
Number of Students: Minimum - 1; Maximum - 2 Locations: Kaiser Medical Center
- Dr. Coswin Saito Portner Orthopedic Rehabilitation - Dr. Bernard Portner Private Practice: Dr. Robert
Sloan (Hilo)
- (Interventional sports, spine medicine and EMG, includes spinal blocks),
Dr. Marlon Rimando Program Director or Coordinator: Laurie Tam, M.D. II. Objectives
Understand basic concepts, terminology, and model of rehabilitation
medicine. Learn to develop a Rehabilitation Master Problem
List. Learn how to write a functional-oriented history and physical
examination, emphasizing chronic disability and musculoskeletal
impairment. Understand the roles of the occupational therapist,
physical therapist, speech and language therapist, clinical psychologist,
social worker, rehabilitation nurse, and recreational therapist in the
evaluation and management of the physically disabled patient. Observe
the interdisciplinary team in action. Recognize clinical problems
that can be treated or managed by rehabilitation and be aware of major
disabling conditions--stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, arthritis,
low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.
Learn principles of prescribing rehabilitative therapy. Understand
how to read medical literature in terms of the functional rehabilitation
approach. III. Method:
Observe patients in rehabilitation therapy; observe physiatrist (rounds,
clinics,electrodiagnosis, brace-prosthetics); observe team conference;
lectures; literature review; read entire student syllabus on chronic
disability. May include inpatient workups <10%. Learn the basics
of running a private outpatient musculoskeletal physiatric practice in a
small town (Dr. Sloan). IV: Evaluation The
faculty preceptor will evaluate the student at the end of the
elective. To obtain credit for this elective, all students must
complete and return the elective evaluation form to the Department of
Medicine. Revised January 2007 MED 545-S |