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Historical Perspective

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest in the country. It has just celebrated its 100th birthday. Its development was central to the development of rehabilitation medicine as a specialty nationwide. Graduates of the program have shaped programs in rehabilitation medicine (also called "physical medicine and rehabilitation") elsewhere. Because of the dispersion of the concepts and practices of the Department by graduates of its programs, the Department has played a central role in the evolution of rehabilitation medicine during the past 100 years.

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