NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

NYU/Rusk Rehabilitation is the largest and most historically influential PMR training program in the country, having trained more rehabilitation physicians than any other institution worldwide, and operates as a university-based, tertiary academic program with a pyramidal structure emphasizing early inpatient immersion before an outpatient-heavy senior year. Residents rotate across a deliberately varied clinical ecosystem spanning NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital and Ambulatory Care, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue (public safety-net), and VA NY Harbor Healthcare System (Manhattan and Brooklyn), exposing trainees to federal, municipal, and private-sector rehabilitation medicine including military-affiliated and underserved populations. The stated trifold mission of education, patient care, and clinical research signals expectation of scholarly engagement alongside clinical training, though research is framed as integrated into workplace-based learning rather than positioned as a mandatory investigator pathway. The program explicitly values diversity of faculty and resident backgrounds, including those underrepresented in medicine, and structures call burden to lighten progressively with seniority, reflecting a design oriented toward building broad clinical competence across disparate systems of care.