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1. Manhattan Campus

   • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Rusk) Residency Program

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     1. Kimmel Pavilion

        Kimmel Pavilion is the newest acute care building, completed in 2018. The hospital features 374 private patient rooms, a suite of 30 flexible operating rooms, image-guided labs, and procedure rooms, all equipped with the latest technology. Each room features MyWall, a 75-inch electronic display screen with a touch screen tablet at the bedside. MyWall gives patients easy access to the dedicated care team members, educational materials related to care, daily goals suggested by the care team to assist in recovery, entertainment options, and the ability to adjust room temperature and lighting. In 2019, the building received LEED Platinum certification to recognize innovation in sustainable design, construction, operations, and maintenance. Kimmel Pavilion is the first hospital in New York State to receive this honor.  It is located on the main campus with Tisch Hospital. This is the primary location where Rusk physiatrists are consulted for patients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, medically complex conditions (including transplant patients), among others. Residents spend 1 month at this location.

     2. NYU Langone Tisch Hospital

        Tisch Hospital is where Rusk Rehabilitation’s medically complex rehab unit is housed. The unit comprises 22 beds, staffed by attendings as well as nurse practitioners. Rusk residents spend 1 month on inpatient rehab here focusing on the unique care for medically complex patients. Topics covered include cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, amputee care (ex. from dysvascular disease), medical debility secondary to prolonged hospitalization, and post-transplant rehabilitation (cardiac, pulmonary, renal, liver, pancreatic). There is a dedicated workroom for the resident as well as an on-call room.

     3. NYU Langone Science Building

        The Science Building houses much of the research enterprise at NYU Langone Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine. We often have weekly didactics or grand rounds in various lecture halls in this beautiful new building.  The structure of the building creates a continuous interior walkway linking all of the on-campus research buildings. Its ground-floor café, spacious lobby, conference halls, and shared equipment and communal meeting and dining spaces on each of the research floors encourage spontaneous interdisciplinary interactions which can lead to significant scientific advances. The lobby and café open onto the new NYU Grossman School of Medicine courtyard, while second-floor garden terraces further add to the campus' network of green spaces. In addition, the building's double-height lobby serves as the formal entrance to NYU Grossman School of Medicine.  This building connects to another academic building, the Smilow Research Building, where there are also lecture halls utilized for didactics.

     4. NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

        Bellevue is the storied anchor of the New York Health + Hospitals system, the public hospital system throughout New York City. Founded in 1736, it is also the nation’s oldest public hospital. Initially conceived as an almshouse for the poor near City Hall, it started with six patient beds. During a yellow fever epidemic in the late 1700s, Bellevue Hospital was relocated to its current location to quarantine the ill. Bellevue is the home of the country's first maternity ward in the US (1799), the first children's clinic in the US (1874), the first emergency room in the US (1876), the first surgical residency training program (1883), and the first ambulance in the US (1895). The inpatient rehabilitation unit at Bellevue is the original one founded by Dr. Howard Rusk in 1947; the first in the nation for civilians.

         

        Today, Bellevue Hospital has nearly 800 beds. Bellevue is the designated trauma center for lower Manhattan and as such we see patients from all socioeconomic backgrounds including Department of Corrections patients.  At Bellevue we see a range of traumatic injuries from vehicular and subway related accidents to falls and assaults; we are able to lend our expertise as rehabilitation physicians to promote recovery and functional independence for these patients. At Bellevue, residents spend a total of 9 months split between inpatient (3 months), consults (3 months), and a range of clinics for both adult and pediatric patients with rehabilitation needs.  The inpatient unit comprises of 35 beds and includes a locked traumatic brain injury unit enabling safe care of patients who have sustained severe head trauma and providing them with ample resources to recover. The inpatient rehab unit is one of the sites where residents take in-house call. Residents have a dedicated workroom as well as an on-call room.

     5. VA NY Harbor Healthcare System

        Rusk residents spend a total of 6 months at the VA: 4 at the Manhattan VA and 2 at the Brooklyn VA in the Bay Ridge neighborhood. At the VA, residents staff a range of outpatient clinics including general musculoskeletal, brain injury, prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchair, and electromyography. The two residents who are at the Brooklyn VA also spend time in the prosthetics lab at the Manhattan VA on Tuesday mornings to obviate a commute from Brooklyn for Tuesday afternoon protected didactic time. It is an honor and a privilege to serve our nation’s veterans to ensure they achieve their highest level of physical autonomy and continue to participate and thrive in their vocational and avocational pursuits.

     6. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

        Rusk Rehabilitation at the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital constitutes the main footprint of Rusk’s inpatient rehabilitation care.  Within this 34,000 square foot facility across 15 floors, there are 48 adult rehabilitation beds housing patients who are recovering from orthopedic surgeries (traumas, arthroplasties, spine surgery, etc.), strokes, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, among others.  Residents spend nearly 9 months of their training here: 7 months on inpatient services and the remainder in pediatric rehabilitation clinic and electromyography lab. The inpatient units, spread across floors 8 and 9,  are one of the sites when residents take in-house call. There is a large dedicated resident workroom as well as a room for the on-call resident. There is also the Samuels Orthopedic Immediate Care Center which is an urgent care devoted to acute musculoskeletal injuries, a unique feature of the hospital that leverages the on-site expertise of the medical team housed at the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital. Last but not least, there is a beautiful greenhouse and outdoor terrace on the 13th floor facing south, which provides sweeping views of lower Manhattan; a favorite place to congregate for lunch or a break from the floors.

     7. NYU Langone Orthopedic Center

        The NYU Langone Orthopedic Center is the one-stop-shop for comprehensive musculoskeletal care ranging from evaluations, to imaging, outpatient surgeries and fluoroscopic procedures, therapies and more. Residents spend 4 months at this state-of-the-art site in sports medicine and pain medicine clinics and in the electromyography lab.  The large outpatient rehabilitation gym on the fifth floor is the primary site for outpatient physical therapy for Rusk. The Sports Performance Center is also located here which provides testing for athletes of all abilities including: VO2 max testing, lactate threshold testing, a comprehensive gait analysis and running lab, golf swing assessments, pitching assessments, and more.

     8. NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center-38th Street

        Rusk Rehabilitation comprises floors 15-17 at the Ambulatory Care Center. It houses departmental administration, outpatient therapies, clinics, and the Rusk Resident Library.  Residents spend 3-4 months at this location rotating through various neurologic rehab clinics including the Concussion Center, oncologic rehab, outpatient cardiopulmonary rehab, and an electromyography lab.

     9. NYU Langone Hospital- Brooklyn

        NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn is located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. There is a free ferry run by the institution that travels between the two campuses offering a quick 30 minute ride and breathtaking views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the bridges that connect the two boroughs. Residents spend several days a week as senior residents in outpatient clinics during a mixed month of subacute rehab and outpatient musculoskeletal clinics with our associate program director.

     10. NYSIM Center

         NYSIM is a joint venture between the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the City University of New York (CUNY) housed at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. Since 2011, this 25,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility has trained tens-of-thousands of medical professionals from 6 continents. Four separate wings are dedicated to simulation education. NYSIM is one of the largest and most advanced medical simulation facilities in the nation, providing state-of-the-art training for medical students, nursing students, residents, staff nurses, and physicians.

         The NYSIM Center consists of a north wing with five simulation rooms, each with a control room where instructors can operate mannequins and record the event for student/teacher analysis. An east wing has 14 office style examination rooms most commonly used to interact with standardized patients. The west wing houses the flex room, also known as the multi-purpose room; it also features classrooms and small conference rooms for debriefing sessions. This is the location where we perform our scheduled musculoskeletal ultrasound workshops throughout the academic year. Residents also complete their ACLS/BLS/PALS training here.