Mission Statement
The mission of the Vanderbilt Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training is to train future leaders in physiatry medicine in a collaborative and supportive environment that provides training in complex clinical skills, didactic education, and research opportunities in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Our program aims to:
- Provide a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and appropriately supervised academic setting in which advanced, highly skilled education in physiatry can occur.
- Develop the resident academically and professionally, while providing resident wellness and balance. Competencies to be acquired include those of medical knowledge, patient care, practice-based learning and improvement, communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
- Provide collaborative opportunities for residents to engage in scholarly activities with faculty who are engaged in leadership positions across the spectrum of PM&R.
- Continuously evaluate the residency program in order to provide the most relevant and diverse educational experience in order to foster stellar physiatrists.
Program Goals
The overarching goal of the Vanderbilt Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program is to produce physicians who can competently and independently practice general physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine, also known as physiatry medicine.
Upon completion of this program, residents will be able to:
- Demonstrate sufficient competence in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Milestones of The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)*.
- Complete and present a Quality Improvement (QI) Project approved by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPM&R).
Admissible for Part 1 of the ABPM&R certifying examination. Excerpts from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Milestones located at: acgme.org/globalassets/pdfs/milestones/pmrmilestones.pdf