Through the Looking Glass: A Personal View of the Field of Rehabilitation Medicine. The 56th John Stanley Coulter Memorial Lecture
Presented at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, September 2006, Boston, MA.
Abstract
Grabois M. Through the looking glass: a personal view of the field of rehabilitation medicine. The 56th John Stanley Coulter Memorial Lecture.
This lectureship reviews the past, present, and future of the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) from the clinical, educational, and research points of view. I make recommendations for the field on how members of the various PM&R associations can make a difference in mapping the future.
Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Correspondence to Martin Grabois, MD, Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, 1333 Moursund Ave, A-221, Houston, TX 77030.
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