St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan maintains a 32-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation unit that admits patients from all hospital services. Outpatient clinics run by the rehabilitation medicine department include general rehabilitation, hand rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, adult and pediatric prosthetics-orthotics, adult and pediatric wheelchair, and brain injury clinic. Residents also participate in the scoliosis and rheumatology clinics. Teaching conferences with each attending physician are held regularly.

The department of rehabilitation's house staff complement is eleven residents. The department also has eleven board-certified physiatrists, all actively involved in resident education. Their subspecialty interests include trauma, orthopedics, sports and musculoskeletal medicine, hand disability, spinal cord injuries, prosthetics and orthotics, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, electro diagnosis,and interventional pain management.

Residents receive instruction and guidance from the faculty who supervise all aspects of patient management. There are over fifty other professional rehabilitation staff members, including a director, physical and occupational therapists and speech pathologists, an audiologist, psychologist, and social worker.

All electro diagnostic procedures are directed by a physician certified by the American Academy of Electro-diagnostic Medicine who supervises the resident during his or her rotation. By the end of the training program, every resident completes over 200 electro diagnostic procedures and interpretations. Didactic lectures, based on the syllabus of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, are given by staff and invited guests.

The department maintains close contact with Cooper Union School of Engineering, one of the nation's oldest engineering colleges, which provides every resident with the opportunity to engage in bioengineering research.