Benefit of Outpatient Musculoskeletal Medicine Experience Early in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency.

Musculoskeletal care for persons with disabilities is an important competency in physical medicine and rehabilitation training. The optimal timing of musculoskeletal medicine rotations in the physical medicine and rehabilitation residency curriculum is unknown. The objective of this study is to determine whether outpatient experience in musculoskeletal medicine increases resident use of musculoskeletal examination skills in the inpatient setting.

Competency Assessment in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Resident Education: A Systematic Review.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to examine the scope and quality of research in physical medicine and rehabilitation resident education as it pertains to the six core competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Design: All indexed years of Medline, Embase, and ERIC were searched using key words related to physical medicine and rehabilitation and medical education. Data were extracted on core competencies, content categories, teaching interventions, and study quality.

Dynamic motor tracking is sensitive to subacute mTBI.

Effective screening for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is critical to accurate diagnosis, intervention, and improving outcomes. However, detecting mTBI using conventional clinical techniques is difficult, time intensive, and subject to observer bias. We examine the use of a simple visuomotor tracking task as a screening tool for mTBI.