Rochester Regional Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community hospital-based PM&R residency at Unity Hospital within Rochester Regional Health, structured around a broad inpatient/outpatient balance with extensive EMG, musculoskeletal, and injection/ultrasound training rather than a narrow subspecialty focus. Clinical exposure spans neurology, pain management, vascular amputee care, sports medicine, pediatrics, and geriatrics, supported by cross-departmental faculty and a research partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology for rehabilitation and biomedical engineering projects. Research is built into the curriculum (a required longitudinal project with two seminar presentations and conference funding) but is positioned as a formal training requirement rather than a defining identity, and the program explicitly prepares graduates for clinical practice, medical education, fellowship, or clinical research. The program's LECOM affiliation and openness to osteopathic students, combined with an emphasis on close-knit mentorship and a faculty advisor system, signal a community-embedded, clinically broad training environment valuing well-rounded procedural competence over hyper-specialization.