Rehabilitation Medicine Clinical Elective

A clinical elective in rehabilitation medicine featuring inpatient and outpatient rotations under direct supervision, focusing on evaluating neurologic and musculoskeletal conditions.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Kimberly Arndt

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Perform a hypothesis-driven history and musculoskeletal and neurologic exams.

  • Develop and present a weighted differential diagnosis.

  • Using clinical evidence, adapt and justify the working diagnosis.

  • Present a diagnostic plan including laboratory and imaging modalities.

  • Correctly interpret imaging and laboratory findings and communicate results to patients and team members.

  • Complete written documentation in a comprehensive, concise, accurate and timely manner.

  • Review, interpret, and present current literature to support patient care.

  • Develop clinically relevant questions to advance learning.

  • Communicate effectively with patients, families, physicians and non-physician team members.

  • Communicate and collaborate with consultants and/or primary team and other providers to coordinate care.

  • Engage patients in shared decision-making regarding tests, orders and procedures.

  • Avoid medical jargon when communicating with patients and families.

  • Recognize limitations and seek assistance as appropriate.

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
RHABMED 920

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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KIMBERLY ARNDT is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Inpatient hospital setting and outpatient clinical setting. Direct supervision by attending physicians and residents. Inpatient activities include rounding on rehabilitation medicine service patients, observing patient therapy sessions, discussing patient cases. Outpatient activities includes seeing clinic patients, participating in procedures like joint injections and fluoroscopic-guided spinal injections, performing electromyography (EMG), discussing patient cases. Evaluate and manage a full spectrum of patients with neurologic and musculoskeletal issues. Exposure to multiple disciplines involved in the rehabilitation process. Inpatient diagnoses commonly encountered include stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injuries, debility, amputations. Outpatient diagnoses commonly encountered include developmental disabilities, spine disorders, chronic pain, arthritis, myofascial pain and fibromyalgia, spasticity, and chronic conditions from prior neurologic injuries.

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Topics

  • Inpatient neurologic and orthopedic conditions
  • Outpatient chronic pain and spine disorders
  • Multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams
  • Electromyography and case discussions

Skills

  • Hypothesis-driven history and physical examination
  • Differential diagnosis development
  • Clinical procedures including EMG and injections
  • Interpretation of imaging and laboratory findings
  • Interprofessional communication

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UW–Madison

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RHABMED 920 · Spring 2027

Rehabilitation Medicine Clinical Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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