Washington University, St. Louis PMR

[Compassion MD]

Does anyone know anything about Washington University, St. Louis' PM&R? Call schedule, etc...

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[ml2001]

Does anyone know anything about Washington University, St. Louis' PM&R? Call schedule, etc...

I have written a detailed review of the program back in 02/2010 as a PGY-2 on scutwork.com. Some things have changed, but most of it is essentially the same. The things that have changed are as follows based on my quick glance of my review:

1. SCI months are more busier now than before. The reason being below.
2. Stroke/TBI is now divided into two separate teams (Stroke and TBI team) by adding a 4th resident. As a result, these teams are busy than they used to be.
3. Patient load on the floors have gone up on average by 1patient/resident because of addition of an additional floor with 14 beds. Average patient load per resident now is ~11 on any floor month.
4. SCI and SCI/amputee is 6 months total while TBI and Stroke combined is 9 months total.


In retrospect, I came out of the program very strong on the neurorehab side with some weakness on the MSK/interventional side, which is why I'm doing an interventional spine fellowship. Hope this helps....

http://www.scutwork.com/cgi-bin/links/review.cgi?ID=3014&d=1

-ML

 

[MedBronc23]

All I know is Dr. Prather in sports and spine there is one smart lady. Heard her talk at AAPMR this last week on multiple topics but mainly hip pathology.

 

[RUOkie]

All I know is Dr. Prather in sports and spine there is one smart lady. Heard her talk at AAPMR this last week on multiple topics but mainly hip pathology.

She is really nice as well. Down to earth, and a great teacher.

 

[ml2001]

All I know is Dr. Prather in sports and spine there is one smart lady. Heard her talk at AAPMR this last week on multiple topics but mainly hip pathology.

She is a great teacher. As part of our MSK rotations, we rotate through her group of Physiatrists including her couple of months during the residency. We routinely get Physiatrists and fellows from her group come lecture to us on MSK stuff. Her Physiatry group is part of Orthopedics at Wash U while the neuro-rehab/inpatient Physiatry team is part of Neurology department. This is one other issue I forgot to mention in my remarks above. Some people look at this as a positive while others look bad upon this breakdown of Physiatrists with no department of their own.

-ML

 

[Louisville04]

All I know is Dr. Prather in sports and spine there is one smart lady. Heard her talk at AAPMR this last week on multiple topics but mainly hip pathology.

I was at that lecture as well. Her former student (Dr. Rho?) from RIC also gave a good talk as well...I think on femoroacetabular impingement.

Do you know if they will make handouts available for all the lectures? The CD does not have a lot of the powerpoint presentations.

 

[Compassion MD]

-ML

Thank you!

One question... Iam confued as to why there are fewer residents after each year? Is there a reason why?