How is pediatric medicine different from adult medicine?
Pediatric rehabilitation medicine (PRM) is the subspecialty that uses an interdisciplinary approach to address the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of congenital and childhood-onset physical impairments including related or secondary medical, physical, functional, psychosocial, cognitive, and vocational limitations or conditions, with an …
What is pediatric rehab?
Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Pediatric physiatrists are physicians who specialize in the rehabilitation care and medical management of children with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neuromuscular disorders, and an array of musculoskeletal conditions.
What is pediatric hospice and Palliative Medicine?
Pediatric Rehabilitation. Children with disabilities represent a unique population within pediatrics. The division of pediatric rehabilitation, under the direction of Joshua Alexander, MD, and with medical expertise from Elizabeth Barton, MD focuses on maximizing the function and enhancing the lives of children with a wide range of conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, …
What is Pediatric Critical Care Medicine?
The Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship trains academic pediatric physiatrists who will provide the highest level of clinical care and advance the frontiers of the field. Most of this training takes place at world-renowned Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare, located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Visit Gillette's Website How To Apply
What are the duties of a pediatrician?
Dr. Alexander and Dr. Barton perform comprehensive intake evaluations of each child’s condition, abilities and special needs. During clinic, team members rotate between patient rooms to provide appropriate evaluations, education and services to provide care that: 1 Overcomes fragmentation and maintains continuity of care 2 Provides developmental evaluations and follow-up assessments 3 Overcomes financial barriers 4 Provides objective recommendations about spasticity/tone management 5 Uses proactive interventions to reduce complications 6 Integrates well with community services 7 Promotes optimal function and independence in daily life 8 Enhances the lives of patients, their siblings and their family
What is telability in NC?
TelAbility is an innovative, community-oriented, interdisciplinary program that uses telecommunications to improve the lives of children with disabilities. Using real time video-conferencing and internet technologies, TelAbility provides comprehensive, coordinated, family-centered care to children with disabilities across North Carolina. In addition, the program offers education, training and peer support for caregivers.
How often do pediatric physiatrists give lectures?
The Orthopedic staff at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare has morning lectures four days per week that cover many topics pertinent to the care of children by the pediatric physiatrist. This lecture series rotates every 6 months, so the fellow should receive the bulk of the lectures during the first year of fellowship. If the fellow might benefit from a review of the previously received lecture, they are encouraged to attend a second time in the second year of their fellowship. The pediatric orthopedic staff almost exclusively provides the lectures.
What is Gillette Children's Hospital?
Gillette Children's Hospital is one of eight rehab hospitals accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in both pediatric inpatient rehabilitation and pediatric brain injury. This unit features 17 spacious private rooms equipped with overhead lifts, updated electronic entertainment systems and private wheelchair accessible bathrooms. Many of the rooms include state-of-the-art technology for patients who have brain and spinal cord injuries. Fellows will develop their leadership skills by overseeing a multidisciplinary team consisting of an occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech language and pathologist, psychologist, rehab nursing, social work, recreational therapist and music therapist all while caring for patients on the inpatient rehab setting. These patients may be undergoing inpatient rehabilitation for diagnosis such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, acute flaccid myelitis, transverse myelitis, deconditioning and more. Patients following selective dorsal rhizotomies, baclofen pump implantation and single event multilevel surgeries are also served on the inpatient rehab unit. During this time, fellows will supervise PMR residents who are rotating on the inpatient rehab unit.
What is Gillette Children's Research Fellowship?
Gillette Children’s provides many research opportunities and support to advance research in pediatric rehabilitation medicine . Fellows will have dedicated time throughout their training to design, implement and complete a research project and a quality improvement project during their two-year fellowship. Each fellow is assigned a research mentor to support these initiatives. Research mentors will also support research collaboration with other members of interdisciplinary teams.
What is a neuroradiology round?
Directed by the pediatric neuroradiology team, Neuroradiology Rounds are held twice monthly and cover interesting or challenging cases in a multidisciplinary conference. This conference is attended by pediatric neurology, pediatric physiatry, other interested consulting physicians.
