Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center
As a first-year pediatric resident, you will participate in the care of outpatients in one of the twenty-two clinics at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center (KCRC), which receive 10,000 annual visits. Third-year residents will focus on the inpatient side of KCRC, which has twenty-three beds and admits between 500 and 600 children each year. With the help of a faculty mentor and a nurse practitioner, you will learn how to function as part of a large interdisciplinary team and to identify and meet the complex needs of children with a wide variety of disabilities.
Children and young adults are referred to the KCRC by parents, physicians, therapists, health departments, schools, social workers and community hospitals throughout the southeastern United States. They come for interdisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of concerns, including:
- developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation syndromes, autism, epilepsy, learning disabilities, muscular dystrophy, and anorexia
- chronic illnesses such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, diabetes mellitus, and rheumatoid arthritis
- recent injuries, including brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and extensive burns
- orthopedic problems such as scoliosis, congenital hip dislocation, clubfoot, arthrogryposis, Legg-Perthes disease, and amputation
- behavioral disorders
Consulting services are available in all pediatric subspecialties, but most often include genetics, child psychiatry, pediatric neurology, pediatric anesthesiology, endocrinology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, urology, plastic surgery, physical medicine, neuropsychology and neurosurgery.
Your rotation as a first-year resident at KCRC is call free. Third-year residents will be on home call every weekday.