Old Dominion University Program

Program Identity & Fit

This PM&R program at Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University is a community-based, multi-institutional training model that integrates residents across four distinct clinical sites - Sentara Norfolk General (Level I trauma/burn), Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (the state's only acute pediatric rehab unit), Hampton VA Medical Center (spinal cord injury, electrodiagnostics, domiciliary care), and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (a military tertiary hospital) - rather than centering training in one university hospital. This structure gives residents exposure to trauma rehabilitation, pediatric rehab, spinal cord injury, and military/VA medicine within a single program, alongside a dedicated Pain Management fellowship pathway that draws residents into interventional and fluoroscopic procedural training. The program's identity is built around breadth of clinical setting and population (civilian trauma, pediatric, veteran, and active-duty military) rather than a single flagship hospital, with early one-on-one faculty work allowing residents to pursue subspecialty interests such as electrodiagnostics or interventional pain from early in training. The presence of an in-house Pain Management fellowship signals a program that values residents capable of transitioning smoothly into procedural subspecialization.