Education
A message from the Residency Program Director to prospective residents
At Stanford, the goal of the PM&R residency is to provide you with the environment and resources to help fulfill your highest professional potential as an physiatrist. The Internet and this website now provides instant and updated information about the residency education program. Here you will find plenty of information about our world-class teaching faculty, with their specialized expertise in a variety of clinical and research areas. Also, please look around the website to see our facilities and curriculum. I encourage you to apply to our program!
- Jeffrey Teraoka, M.D.
Places where our residents live
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Santa Clara Wikipedia - » Apartment Listings
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Why Stanford?
We have a diverse faculty, great learning experiences and live in the most beautiful region in the country.
Our Experiences
- TBI at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, a model systems institute of traumatic brain injury.
- Multiple experiences in Spinal Cord Injury including experience at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and the Palo Alto VA Medical Center.
- Sports Medicine at Stanford, treating world class Stanford varsity athletes.
- Spine at Stanford where we are able to treat patients with spinal origins of pain and do injections.
- Inpatient polytrauma at the Polytrauma unit at Palo Alto VA Medical Center, including treatment of active duty soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
- EMGs at three sites, Palo Alto VA, Stanford, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, giving us a diversity of EMG opportunities.
- The most beautiful area in the world, the San Francisco Bay Area.
Curriculum
The year is divided into 7 or 8-week long blocks for a total of 7 blocks per year.
PGY-2
- PM&R Clinics at Palo Alto VA (focus on MSK)
- Polytrauma inpatient at Palo Alto VA
- Spinal cord injury at Palo Alto VA
- PM&R Clinics at Valley Medical Center (focus on TBI, SCI follow-up)
- Spinal cord injury at Valley Medical Center
- Traumatic brain injury at Valley Medical Center
PGY-3
- Sports Medicine at Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center (SMOC)
- Spine Medicine at Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center (SMOC)
- PM&R Clinics at Palo Alto VA (2-week elective time)
- Spinal cord injury at Valley Medical Center
- Inpatient consults at Valley Medical Center
- PM&R Clinics at Valley Medical Center (focus on TBI, SCI follow-up)
- Inpatient rehabilitation at St. Mary's Hospital
PGY-4
- Inpatient consults at Stanford Hospital
- Spine Medicine at Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center (SMOC)
- Consults at Palo Alto VA (2-week elective time and research time)
- Spinal cord injury at Palo Alto VA
- Polytrauma at Palo Alto VA (with outpatient clinic experiences)
- Pediatrics at Kaiser Oakland/Santa Clara, Packard Children’s Hospital, and Subacute Saratoga Hospital
- EMG at Valley Medical Center
We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Stanford University PM&R Resident Education Fund
