Pediatric Rehabilitation Fellowship
Thank you for your interest in the Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pediatric Rehabilitation Fellowship at VCU
Medical Center.
Instructor led one year clinical/research with exposure to intensive care consultation,
inpatient rehab, subacute/coma management, feeding program, day rehab, interdisciplinary/multispecialty
clinics/pain management.
Fellowship duration
- Two years: one year clinical and one year research
- One year: six months clinical and six months research
Sponsors
- Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia
- VCU Medical Center
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- LEND Program
- VCU Office of Research
Purpose
To provide clinical and research training experience to enable graduates of the
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Fellowship to serve as pediatric physiatrists
in academic research centers
Clinical experiences
The primary location for the fellowship will be Children’s Hospital of Richmond
for the clinical rotations. This will include a rotation on the Pediatric Rehabilitation
Unit and the Transitional Care Unit for inpatient care. Consultation services will
be provided also at the VCU Medical Center Pediatric Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care
Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Clinical experiences will include baclofen pump evaluations and trials, Botox injection
clinic with and without anesthesia, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, Spina Bifida,
EMG, pediatric urology, pediatric orthopaedic surgery and pediatric neurosurgery
and amputee.
The expectation of the graduates is to become clinically competent in all of these
areas.
Research
The fellow will be assigned to Drs. Paul Wehman and Brian McMahan of the Rehabilitation
Research Center to develop his or her research goals and objectives.
For additional information Contact.
Pediatric Fellowship Director.
Dr. Eugenio Monasterio, M.D or
(804) 228-5836.