General Information-
 
The first year of Neurology Residency training is devoted to basic neurologic skills
required to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with neurologic illness. Beginning
in the first year and continuing through the remainder of the residency, each resident
is assigned a weekly Neurology Continuity Clinic in which they have the opportunity
to follow patients during their three years of residency. During the second year, the
resident assumes more clinical responsibility and supervisory roles. During the
second or third year of training, Neurology residents rotate for at least three months
through The Children's Hospital to acquire clinical experience in Child Neurology.
Additional electives are offered and include EEG, Epilepsy, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit,
Electromyography, Neuromuscular Disorders, Movement Disorders, Multiple
Sclerosis, Neurobehavior, Neuromuscular, Neuro-oncology, Neuro-ophthalmology,
Neuroradiology, Pathology, Research, Subspecialty Clinics, Vascular/Stroke,
NeuroICU, and other electives can be designed by the resident. Typical resident
schedule can be found on the Resident Rotation Schedule page.
 
Educational Goals-
 
YEAR 1

·      develop expertise in history taking and the neurologic examination of
patients with neurologic disease

·     master the clinical approach to the patient with neurologic disease:
localization of the problem in the nervous system, identification and
verification of the most likely diagnosis, including an efficient workup

·      rapidly become familiar with indications for diagnostic studies, including
lumbar puncture, EMG/nerve conduction studies, myelography, CT
scanning, MRI scanning, angiography/CTA/MRA

·      learn how to read neuroimaging studies and how to interpret reports of
EEGs and EMG/nerve conduction studies

·      become expert in performance of a lumbar puncture 

·      become expert in management of in-patients and out-patients with
neurologic disease, including patients on the intensive care unit of the
Neurology service

·      develop a cadre of patients in the Outpatient Neurology Continuity Clinic,
and learn how to manage these patients

·      begin a reading program of functional neuroanatomy, clinical neurology
and current literature

·      begin study of 3-year cycle of basic sciences applied to the nervous system
 

 YEAR 2

·      continue development and management of patients in Continuity Clinic

·      continue development and management of in-patients with neurologic
disease, including patients in the intensive care unit

·      learn how to perform a neurologic consultation

·      develop expertise in management of children with neurologic disease during
3-month Child Neurology rotation

·      learn how to perform and interpret EMGs, EEGs and EPs and to care for
difficult-to-manage neuromuscular and epilepsy patients during 8 weeks of
neurophysiology rotation

·      participate in teaching medical students special areas of Neurology: the
neurologic exam, multiple sclerosis, dementia, neuropathy, spinal cord
syndromes, stroke, movement disorders, coma, etc.

·      continue study of basic neuroscience
 

YEAR 3

·      become able to order and interpret MRI, CT, angiographic and myelographic
studies, and to recognize standard neuropathologic changes at a gross and
microscopic level

·      maintain responsibility of Senior Resident for inpatient service at all of our
three teaching hospitals, including the intensive care unit service

·      perfect skills in performance of a neurologic consultation

·      continue teaching and assume increased responsibility for medical students

·      continue participation in teaching medical students special areas of
Neurology: the neurologic exam, multiple sclerosis, dementia, neuropathy,
spinal cord syndromes, stroke, movement disorders, coma, etc.

·      perfect speaking and organizational skills by presentation of Neurology
Grand Rounds and one clinical pathologic conference

·      continue study of basic neuroscience

 Fellowship Programs-
 
Clinical fellowships are available in 7 subspecialties. See Fellowships page. Research
fellowships, supported by an NIH training grant, are also available in the molecular
biology of neurologic disease, neurovirology, neuroimmunology and multiple
sclerosis.