Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship

Fellows gain experience with transitional care, adult CP clinics, and home ventilator management. Opportunities include participation in school-based clinics and a specialized camp for children on home ventilation. The program is flexible, with room to tailor training to individual interests while meeting core curriculum goals.

• On-Call: Inpatient call is taken by the PM&R residents. Pediatric rehabilitation fellows are not part of an overnight or weekend call rotation.
• Resident Assistant: Our Resident Assistant plays a vital role on the inpatient team by providing essential administrative support, allowing trainees to focus more on patient care and education.
• Educational Funds: At the start of fellowship, fellows are provided with a copy of a pediatric rehabilitation textbook. Funding is also available to attend one conference per year.
• Moonlighting: PM&R House Officers are permitted to engage in extracurricular medical practice that is not part of their training program if they have a permanent medical license and if the total hours worked per week (fellowship commitments and moonlighting) does not exceed 80 hours per week.

Pediatric PM&R fellows spend up to 50% of their training months assigned to the pediatric inpatient service in C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. This includes management of inpatients and consult patients within a nationally ranked quaternary care center. During this time, fellows co-manage the service along with a PGY-2 or PGY-3 resident and an attending physician. Opportunities to participate in rounds and care conferences with other services, such as the pediatric intensive care unit, are encouraged.

Fellows spend the remainder of their training months assigned to outpatient clinics. The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has a variety of multidisciplinary programs and clinics available for pediatric patients.

Each fellow is scheduled for one to two half days per week in his or her own clinic at the Pediatric Rehabilitation Center. This provides the fellow with the opportunity to take primary responsibility for each patient’s rehabilitation care, while being staffed by a faculty member in pediatric rehabilitation.

Fellows will have the opportunity to learn in settings outside of the health system, such as school clinics and a camp for children on home ventilation. Every effort will be made to tailor the program to suit the fellows’ specific interests while still maintaining focus on the core curriculum needs.