Resident Rotations and On-Call Schedule

Typical Resident Rotations

Our three-year residency training program provides an excellent balance among inpatient, outpatient and procedural opportunities. Typical resident rotations are scheduled in two-month blocks, except where noted.

PGY2: Inpatient rotations

• Stroke
• Brain injury
• Medically complex/neuromuscular
• Musculoskeletal medicine
• Spinal cord injury
• Hines VA Hospital (Hines, IL)

PGY3: Rotations

• Pediatrics: Inpatient and outpatient
• Outpatient musculoskeletal and sports medicine
• Outpatient interventional pain
• Hines VA: Electrodiagnostic medicine (EMG) and outpatient musculoskeletal clinic
• Hines VA: Interventional pain
• Elective

PGY4: Rotations

• Outpatient rehabilitation clinics (three months)
• EMG
• Lovell Federal Health Care Center EMG Medicine and Outpatient Clinics
• Hines VA: General outpatient clinics
• Senior inpatient selective (one month)
• Prosthetics and orthotics Clinic (one month)
• Consults (one month)

Typical Resident On-Call Schedule

All residents are assigned to in-house on-call duties following ACGME requirements. No resident is on-call more than once every third night. A typical on-call schedule might be as follows:

• PGY2: Approximately four times per month
• PGY3: Approximately two times per month
• PGY4: Approximately once per month

For additional information, please email Yana Panos, residency program coordinator, at yana.spedale@nm.org.