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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation - the "physiatrist" - is interested in the diagnosis of the disease processes underlying the disability, but focus is on the functional disability itself - that is, evaluation of the patient's level of functioning, design of a treatment program, and management of the rehabilitation team which carries out the program.

• Number of physicians in specialty - Small, less than 15,000
• Competitiveness of residency - Moderate
• Years of training required - Four years including a first year in a family medicine, pediatrics, transitional, or preliminary medicine or surgery residency.
• Subspecialty/Combined/Fellowship Training - There are combined five-year double-boarded residency training programs with pediatrics and internal medicine. One year fellowships are available in the following sub-specialties: hospice and palliative care, neuromuscular medicine, spinal cord injury medicine, pain management, pediatric rehabilitation medicine, and sports medicine.

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