Information for Medical Students
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
College of Medicine Visiting Students Information & Application
Summer Extern Program Application
Externship Information
We are sorry to announce that our summer externship program will not be available this year. However, for those who are interested, please check back next year.
Our summer externship consists of three, two-week rotations. During this time, the externs will be exposed to a variety of clinical activities in adult and pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This clinical exposure will allow the externs to learn about the field of PM&R and acquire history and physical examination skills. They will also be exposed to clinical research through an in depth investigation of an area of their interest and the design of a proposed research study with the help of a faculty mentor.
As you may be aware, our program offers an excellent selection of clinical sites at which the externs will rotate including:
- Drake Center, a 356-bed long-term acute care hospital that offers a comprehensive continuum of rehabilitative care for patients at every stage of the recovery process. At Drake, our faculty offer many specialized services through which externs can rotate, including: dedicated inpatient units for spinal cord injury and neurological rehabilitation, consultations, a spasticity management clinic, electromyography, and a dedicated research laboratory.
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 children's hospitals in the country and the largest pediatric research program in the Midwest. The Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation at CCHMC is the largest in the country with 5 full time double-boarded physicians, a research psychologist and over $3.5 million dollars in federally funded research grants in the past 5 years. The externs will have the opportunity to be exposed to a busy inpatient unit and 10 different specialized outpatient clinics while at CCHMC. This is also one of only a handful of programs in the country offering a dual certification program in both pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
- University Hospital, consistently named as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News and World Report, is a level-1 trauma center with 665 beds and two trauma helicopters that serve a 150-mile radius. The Department of PM&R provides a busy consultation service at University Hospital and is actively involved in the internationally recognized Neuroscience Institute.
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The University of Cincinnati stands among the top 25 public research universities in the United States with more than $330 million in research funding. As such, the externs will have an opportunity to experience a wide variety of exciting clinical and research programs and state of the art technology including one of the country’s finest gait laboratories; two neuroimaging centers with functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation capabilities.
If you wish to obtain more information about this program, or our residency program, please fill out the program form or contact Mary Duke, Academic Program Manager, at (513)558-7635 or at Mary.Duke@uc.edu. The stipend for this externship is $2000.00.
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