1. Rehabilitation engineering education at the University of Virginia.
- Author
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Thacker JG and Kauzlarich JJ
- Subjects
- Universities, Virginia, Biomedical Engineering education, Curriculum, Rehabilitation education, Self-Help Devices
- Abstract
The graduate rehabilitation engineering program of study at the University of Virginia is the first program of its type in the United States. The first students were admitted to the program in the fall of 1979. The program is designed to train students with engineering and clinical science backgrounds in the field of rehabilitation engineering. Emphasis is placed on practical training through internship activities at the University of Virginia Rehabilitation Engineering Center and Medical School Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. Field experience is received at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center and the University of Virginia Children's Rehabilitation Center.
- Published
- 1982
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