| Code : | 028 |
| Title : | REHABILITATION MEDICINE |
| Sponsor : | JOHN CHAE, M.D. |
| Department : | Department of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation |
| Address : | MetroHealth Medical Center |
| 2500 MetroHealth Drive,Cleve,Ohio44109 | |
| Phone : | 216-778-3472 |
| ADVISORS : Frederick Frost, M.D. (216)778-3483 Shu Huang, M.D. (216)778-3209 Clay Kelly, M.D. (216)778-3209 Mary Vargo, M.D. (216)778-7734 David Yu, M.D. (216)778-8903 |
| DESCRIPTION : The field of rehabilitation is characterized by a coordinated multi-disciplinary approach - medical, psychosocial and vocational - to the task of restoring a person with a physical disability to the highest attainable level of physical, social, and emotional functioning. The number of people with chronic disabling illnesses and conditions has grown rapidly in recent years as a result of increased population longevity and survival of children with severe disability, and can be expected to grow even more in the future. The success of preventive medicine and the development of specific treatments for acute conditions have improved survival and longevity of individuals who previously would have succumbed to traumatic accidents, strokes, birth defects and other disabling diseases. Through its wholistic and comprehensive scope, rehabilitation medicine addresses the quality of these people's lives. By assisting people with disabilities achieve their greatest level of functional independence and socioeconomic productivity, it also addresses the many personal and societal costs of disability. This area of concentration includes instruction in, and exposure to, a number of the approacches and increasingly sophisticated techniques employed in this rapidly growing field of medicine. Aspects of basic science relevant to this area are included, as are ethical, socioeconomic, and technological concerns. Clinical approaches to specific types of disability will be covered in both options and electives. Research projects are available for interested students. Faculty will assist students in selecting and designing individual projects. |
| REQUIREMENTS : |
| TYPE A ELECTIVES |
| Minimum of 6 is required with no more than 2 from Cluster 1 |
| Cluster 1 |
| Cluster 2 |
| TYPE B ELECTIVES |
| A minimum of 2 is required. 1 must be Rehabilitation Acting Internship (A.I.) |