title: Neurorehabilitation in Sri Lanka: an emerging sub-specialty for neurology trainees.
abstract: Sri Lanka has an ageing population with an impending epidemic of stroke at hand. Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has seen many recent advances in stroke services in the recent past providing a benchmark example for the countries in the Asia Pacific region, modeling the best care for stroke patients across the region with limited facilities they have. Three postgraduate trainees in neurology and medicine from Sri Lanka will spend a year at Western Health/ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia for a period of 12 months for training in neurorehabilitation for stroke. It is timely for neurology trainees and trainees in internal medicine in Sri Lanka to be interested in neurorehabilitation. We sincerely hope the Board of study of Neurology, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka will take the necessary steps to establish neurorehabilitation as an emerging sub-specialty for neurology trainees in Sri Lanka now.
authors.affiliation: Stroke Unit & Neuroscience Research Unit/Department of Medicine, Western Hospital, Footscray, Vic. 3011, Australia. twi@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Tissa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wijeratne
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000453:epidemiology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D013337:Students, Medical