I'm intersted in rehab, and I've heard of RIC, Kessler, UoW, Mayo, Baylor/houston, but does any body have any specific info on the other Texas programs. What do you know about Texas at San Antonio?
good programs???
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I was less than impressed with San Antonio. The residents there complained of EMG as being their "worst" rotation, which seemed hard to believe until I met Dimitru. He was downright unpleasant to the interviewees. Workload seemed fairly intense, and surgery heavy the first two years. Interns looked like they had been whipped into submission. Third and fourth years have it easy there though. The program director there blasted rehab programs that have their own hospital building, and says that his approach of keeping rehab in house was superior. Then later on he revealed he was working on getting his own separate rehab building in the future. 
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I interviewed at all the texas programs:
1. Baylor Houston: Best known, and overall strongest program, especially when it comes to academics/research. Good overall training, but Traditionally weak in MSK, though they have improved. Busy Services. Large program. Multiple hospital sites.
2. San Antonio: Flies under the Radar, though is an excellent program. Is strictly categorical, and your intern year is with medicine. The hospital looks nice on the outside, and is crappy on the inside. They turn out lots of MSK docs, who I've noticed tend to stay in the San Antonio Area, and do very well
3. UT-SW: Strong program, and will probably be getting stronger in the future. Large, prides itself on hard work during inpatient. Research opportunities are developing. During interviews, they expressed a direct interest in becomin as highly regarded or even more so than Houston/Baylor. They are probably the most "developing" program in Texas
4. Baylor-Dallas: Small private program. I rotated there. Very nice residents and faculty. Your rotations work more as a apprenticeship. This is good in that you are directly working with faculty all the time, but bad in that you may have a slight difficulty learning a new/combined style. You are geared to be a private practice doc afterwords. You will have to do a fellowship if you want advanced training (you will not get 400 EMG's, and work in ICU's... though you do get consults in the ICU)
Baylor's Inpatient rehab facility is consistently rated in the top 15 in the nation. It is nice, and so is the main hospital. Since it is private, you are taken care of nicely by the hospital
Texas is fortunate to have 4 strong programs (counting Houston/baylor as 1) and you really can't go wrong with any.
1. Houston: Academics and prestige
2. San Antonio: Msk and strong program
3. UTSW: Academics, and Inpatient
4: Baylor-Dallas: Small, personal. General Physiatry
1. Baylor Houston: Best known, and overall strongest program, especially when it comes to academics/research. Good overall training, but Traditionally weak in MSK, though they have improved. Busy Services. Large program. Multiple hospital sites.
2. San Antonio: Flies under the Radar, though is an excellent program. Is strictly categorical, and your intern year is with medicine. The hospital looks nice on the outside, and is crappy on the inside. They turn out lots of MSK docs, who I've noticed tend to stay in the San Antonio Area, and do very well
3. UT-SW: Strong program, and will probably be getting stronger in the future. Large, prides itself on hard work during inpatient. Research opportunities are developing. During interviews, they expressed a direct interest in becomin as highly regarded or even more so than Houston/Baylor. They are probably the most "developing" program in Texas
4. Baylor-Dallas: Small private program. I rotated there. Very nice residents and faculty. Your rotations work more as a apprenticeship. This is good in that you are directly working with faculty all the time, but bad in that you may have a slight difficulty learning a new/combined style. You are geared to be a private practice doc afterwords. You will have to do a fellowship if you want advanced training (you will not get 400 EMG's, and work in ICU's... though you do get consults in the ICU)
Baylor's Inpatient rehab facility is consistently rated in the top 15 in the nation. It is nice, and so is the main hospital. Since it is private, you are taken care of nicely by the hospital
Texas is fortunate to have 4 strong programs (counting Houston/baylor as 1) and you really can't go wrong with any.
1. Houston: Academics and prestige
2. San Antonio: Msk and strong program
3. UTSW: Academics, and Inpatient
4: Baylor-Dallas: Small, personal. General Physiatry
Regarding UTHSCSA, check out their website: http://rehab.uthscsa.edu/Index.asp
It's very informative. They are a strong program with well known faculty. I hear that most attendings there are actually great to work with and the one mentioned above will only give you a hard time if you're not prepared. Per the website, as an intern you do 6 months Rehab, 1 month Rheum, 1 month Neurosurg, 2 months SICU, 2 months VA medicine.
It's very informative. They are a strong program with well known faculty. I hear that most attendings there are actually great to work with and the one mentioned above will only give you a hard time if you're not prepared. Per the website, as an intern you do 6 months Rehab, 1 month Rheum, 1 month Neurosurg, 2 months SICU, 2 months VA medicine.
As a Baylor Houston alum, whose practice is 80% spine/EMG and 20% inpt/consultative, I will beg to differ about the weakness in MSK. That program grounds their residents in biomechanics (it is drummed into your head!). This knowledge allows your to use that basic anatomical/physiological foundation to apply to any part of the body. I find conservative spine care much easier now if I just think about "normal" mechanics and what is functionally wrong. If you correct the dysfunction, the patient improves. While in the past (like when I trained) fluoroscopic interventions were not available, they are now. Basic lumbar procedures are easy to learn post residency, and if you are going to do the complex stuff, you will do a fellowship anyway. If you finish that program (yes it is demanding) you can get a job anywhere. BCM grads are all over (we had over 150 people at our reunion at the AAPMR in San Diego last year)
