Neurology Residency

Clinical Focus

Our curriculum is clinically focused and taught by faculty members with a variety of general and subspecialty expertise, including:

• General neurology

• Epilepsia

• Carrera

• Trastornos del movimiento

• Dolor de cabeza

• Neuromuscular disease

• Neuro-oncology

• Esclerosis múltiple

Residents rotate through general and vascular inpatient consult services where they encounter patients in the emergency department, ICU, EMU and hospital ward. Outpatient clinics include weekly resident continuity clinic, epilepsy, headache, movement disorder, neuromuscular, neuro oncology, vascular, pediatric neurology and general neurology clinics. EMG and EEG electives include individual training with faculty in a busy neurophysiology lab and start in the PGY2 year. Clinical research projects are widely available and residents are encouraged to present at regional and national meetings.

Rotations

Schedules

Our four-week rotations begin in July for a total of 13 rotations annually. For information regarding the preliminary PGY1 year, please visit the Internal Medicine Residency page.

Electives

Elective opportunities include:

• ALS clinic and autonomic lab
• Anesthesia pain clinic
• Interventional neuro-radiology
• Neuro-oncology
• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Neuropatología
• Neuroradiología
• Neurocirugía
• PM&R
• Sleep clinic/lab
• All subspecialty neurology clinic areas
• Neuro Psicología

Outpatient Services

Neurology clinic rotations include general and specialty clinics, allowing exposure to sub-specialty neurology starting in PGY2 year. This exposure helps residents formulate fellowship interests and broaden their scope of expertise in managing patients with headaches, epilepsy, movement disorder, demyelinating disease, neuromuscular disease, dementia and brain tumors.

In the clinic, residents become proficient at:

• Botulinum Toxin and other headache injections

• VNS and DBS programming

• Performing and interpreting both EEG and EMG

• Lumbar Puncture

Continuity clinic starts in July PGY2 and continues weekly throughout residency. Our residents see both new consults/referred patients as well as patients they select to follow after discharge from an inpatient service. Residents work with different faculty each year but have much control over the type of patients they follow. Our residents are the doctors and establish lasting therapeutic and rewarding relationships with their patients while gaining experience managing chronic neurologic problems.

Inpatient Services

Our general neurology consult service sees more than 2,000 consults annually making it very busy and very interesting with a very high educational yield. You will encounter patients from the ED and ICU to hospital floor with a team led by a neurology faculty member, yourself, and rotating residents and students from internal medicine, family medicine, and psychiatry. Not only do you learn, but you teach the rotating residents and students.

Vascular Neurology consult service is also very busy and led by stroke specialists in a highly acclaimed comprehensive stroke service. You will manage acute stroke patients, arterial dissections, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and intracranial hemorrhages from arrival to discharge as part of a comprehensive team of vascular neurology experts. You will care for a range of critically ill patients and endovascular patients and screen patients for participation in innovative research protocols.

Epilepsy monitoring unit is staffed by epileptologists and neurology residents. During your EEG rotation, you will be responsible for admitting and discharging all EMU patients as well as their daily care. You will read all EEGS with staff and participate in preparing patients for epilepsy surgery.

Conferences

Neurology didactic sessions Monday through Thursday weekly with several devoted to review for the RITE examination. Interesting case conferences and live patient conferences are scheduled several times a year.

Regularly scheduled conferences include:

• Neurovascular conference every other week

• Neuro-radiology conference monthly

• Neurosurgery case conference every other week

• Neuropathology/brain cutting every other week

• Weekly internal medicine grand rounds

• Neurosurgery grand rounds bimonthly

• Spine conference every other week

• Journal club weekly

• Morning report weekly