{"id":8,"date":"2017-08-15T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/physicalmed\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-01-17T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T19:07:46","slug":"department-of-physical-medicine-rehabilitation-and-sports-medicine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/physicalmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”180″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]William Micheo, MD
\nProfessor and Chairman[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Welcome to the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.\u00a0 Our purpose is to care for patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal and neuromuscular conditions, and to educate residents, medical students, and the general population about our field.\u00a0 We provide a service of excellence through the dedicated work of our faculty, residents, and staff.<\/p>\n

A vast variety of services are provided through our department, including: Inpatient adult and pediatric rehabilitation, Inpatient PM&R consultation service at numerous acute care hospitals, including a trauma center, cardiovascular, oncology, and pediatric hospitals, PM&R specialty clinics (electrodiagnostics, neuromuscular diseases, pediatrics, sports medicine, pain management), as well as general PM&R clinics.<\/p>\n

The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Training<\/em><\/strong> Program<\/em><\/strong> is a 4-year Residency program centered on resident education and patient care.\u00a0 It is of utmost importance to us, as educators to provide our residents with a variety of educational experiences to form complete physicians and human beings.\u00a0 Also, it is very important to us to expose medical students to our field.\u00a0 The medical school curriculum includes a one week rotation for every student, but also, we offer a 2-4 week clinical rotation in general PM&R, inpatient rehabilitation, and sports medicine.<\/p>\n

The Sports Medicine Training Program<\/em><\/strong> will provide academic and clinical teaching experiences so that the fellow\/resident can develop basic knowledge in the field of sports medicine as its relates to the practice of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and primary care medicine.\u00a0 In addition, the fellow will develop expertise in the areas of diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of sports injury, exercise physiology, sports psychology, and nutrition.<\/p>\n

The Program will also provide the clinical experience and teaching that will allow the fellow\/resident to develop skills necessary to become a team physician, prescribe exercise for health promotion, and perform procedures needed in the management of sports injuries.\u00a0 Acquisition of knowledge and the skills necessary to evaluate the scientific medical literature in sports medicine and how to apply the information\u00a0 obtained in\u00a0 patient management will also be emphasized during the training program.<\/p>\n

Again we welcome you to our webpage.\u00a0 We hope that it will provide information that fulfills your needs.<\/p>\n

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William Micheo, MD<\/p>\n

Professor and Chairman
\nPhysical Medicine, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Department
\nSports Medicine Fellowship Director
\nUniversity of Puerto Rico[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Brochure<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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