Functional Effectiveness of Inpatient Rehabilitation After Heart Transplantation.

Background: Heart transplantation (HT) is the treatment of choice for many patients with end-stage heart failure who remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy, but no study has looked directly into functional improvement of HT patients after an inpatient rehabilitation program.

Objective: To determine functional improvement in HT patients who completed an inpatient rehabilitation program.

Design: Retrospective study.

Impact of a required fourth-year medical student rotation in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

This study evaluated the impact of a 2-wk required rotation in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) on fourth-year medical students' knowledge of PM&R and attitude toward teamwork in patient care. Survey results on attitudes toward a team approach to patient care and knowledge in PM&R were compared prerotation and postrotation. One hundred thirty-eight fourth-year medical students participated in this 2-yr study.