School of Medicine

Touro Infirmary

In its 165-year history, Touro has survived challenges such as the yellow fever epidemic, the Civil War, and two World Wars.

In 1923, Touro was one of only fifteen hospitals in the country approved to use insulin to treat patients.

In 1929, Touro was one of the first hospitals in the United States and the first in the city to have a physical therapy department, which paved the way for our nationally recognized Rehabilitation Center.

Today, Touro Rehabilitation Center offers specialized inpatient and outpatient programs for patients experiencing catastrophic injuries, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and cancer.

The Brain Injury Program at Touro Rehabilitation Center is specially-designed to provide education, resources, and support to patients and their caregivers. A dedicated treatment team is committed to providing individualized care to improve the quality of life for adolescents and adults following an acquired brain injury by increasing function, encouraging independence, and facilitating a safe return to the community.

 

Rotations:

• Inpatient Adult Rehab - traumatic brain injury,spinal cord injury, stroke, amputation, post-operative orthopaedic
• Inpatient Rehab Consults

 

About this Rotation

"Our inpatient PM&R rotation at Touro is our busiest rotation. We do one month of IPR at Touro, then an additional 9 months throughout the next three years of residency. Residents can expect on average to carry a mostly full team of about 9-13 patients. Residents work directly one on one with their attending physician. There are four teams plus a consult resident that sees in house consults as well as covers inpatient teams when other residents are out on vacation. Teams can accept any kind of rehab admit, so it is not uncommon to have at least one stroke, TBI, SCI, orthopedic rehab patient on your team concurrently. The obvious benefit of this is having variety and keeping up with the most current treatment recommendations of most types of IPR patients encountered at all times. A typical day starts at 7 or 8 in the morning with chart reviewing and pre-rounding followed by rounding with the attending physician. Residents can typically expect to have one admit to work on in the afternoon, sometimes two. Weekend call is split amongst the inpatient residents so that each resident covers all the call for one weekend, and the rest of the weekends they have off." - Dr. Zack Weilenman

Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Founded in 1942, by five physicians, Ochsner Health System is one of the largest independent academic health systems in the United States and the largest health system in the Gulf South.

The Ochsner Clinic, the first group medical practice in the Deep South, on January 2, 1942, in the midst of World War II. The founding partners well understood the importance of research and education. Two years after opening the Clinic, they also established the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation. In 1947, the Ochsner Foundation Hospital opened in a former Army post hospital and then in 1954 the 250-bed, 5-story Ochsner Foundation Hospital opened.

We currently have rotations at three different Ochsner facilities.

 

About this Rotation

"Residents rotate at several Ochsner facilities with several different faculty. We rotate in interventional pain at Ochsner Baptist, a high volume rotation in which residents are able to perform many interventional pain procedures as well as evaluate patients with pain complaints in clinic. We also rotate at an Ochsner clinic on the north shore of lake Pontchartrain in sports medicine and pediatric sports medicine. Residents will see a large volume of concussions, sports injuries, spasticity, and pediatric PM&R." - Zack Weilenman

East Jefferson General Hospital

In the late 1960's, community leaders saw the need for a healthcare facility to serve the burgeoning population of the
East Bank of Jefferson Parish. The Jefferson Parish Council passed an ordinance creating a hospital service district on the East Bank. In November of 1965, officials broke ground on 20 acres of undeveloped land that would become East Jefferson General Hospital.

On February 14, 1971, the hospital opened its doors with 250 beds and 250 physicians. Today, East Jefferson General Hospital has 420 beds and over 650 physicians. The hospital is one of the largest employers in Jefferson parish. EJGH has grown, offering clinical experience and cutting edge technology. Today,
the hospital remains publicly owned and non-profit. It is a service district hospital governed by a 10‐member volunteer Board of Directors and accredited
by the Joint Commission. 

EJGH has become a medical landmark adding The Yenni Treatment Center for outpatient cancer treatment and the Domino Pavilion, housing outpatient surgery, lab and radiology services. A 38,000 square foot, state‐of‐the‐art fitness facility and the East Jefferson Imaging Center, were recently added to the hospital's outreach.

 

Rotations

• Pain Medicine
• Wound Care
• Family Medicine
• Interventional Pain Medicine

 

About this Rotation

"Residents work in an interventional pain clinic at East Jeff. This clinic is very similar to Ochsner Baptist in that residents can expect to perform numerous interventional pain procedures for a multitude of pain complaints. At both facilities it is not uncommon for a resident to observe/perform approximately twenty procedures per dedicated procedure day. Typically there are two procedure days per week at both East Jeff as well as Ochsner Baptist. During intern year, residents also spend one month covering inpatient medicine with the family medicine residency program at East Jefferson. This rotation is very busy and demanding. Residents like to think of this month as a “crash course” in hospital medicine and report that it does an excellent job of preparing them for inpatient rehab at Touro. Interns do not take overnight call for this rotation as there is an upper level night float resident." - Zack Weilenman

The Pain Management Institute at East Jefferson General Hospital offers a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pain, including a full range of interventional therapies, including physical therapy, cognitive therapy, medications and injections. This an elective rotation for the residents who work one on one directly under the guidance of Dr. Robert McMyne, the current Medical Director for the Pain Institute and recent graduate of both the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency program and Pain Medicine Fellowship Program.

During this rotation, the residents get the opportunity to observe how a private practice pain management clinic operates and can learn and perform many different interventional pain procedures in a community hospital setting serving mostly private practice patients from the greater New Orleans area.

They also now participate with Dr. McMyne providing inpatient consults for pain management. In addition, starting in October 2017, PGY1 interns are completing a one to two-month family medicine rotation with residents and staff from the East Jefferson General Hospital Family Medicine resident program.