Curriculum
Rotation Schedule
You can expect to participate in weekly didactic conferences, teaching rounds with faculty and rotations through neurological specialties.
PGY2
- Inpatient Neurology (admitting and consultation)
- Daily teaching rounds with faculty attending
- Weekly EEG reading/instruction
- Weekly Neuroanatomy Review
- Weekly Neuropharmacology Instruction
- In-hospital night calls limited to one night/week
PGY3
- Child Neurology (Inpatient, Outpatient)
- Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care
- Neurorehabilitation
- Neuroradiology
- Community Neurology
- Comprehensive Clinical Neurophysiology Course
- No in-hospital PGY3 night call
PGY4
- Inpatient supervision of junior residents
- No in-hospital PGY4 night calls (some home calls)
- Epileptology with advanced EEG and EMU
- Neuromuscular medicine with EMG
- Subspecialty outpatient clinics (stroke, epilepsy, neuromuscular, MS, pain, headache, neuro-ophthalmology, movement disorders, behavioral neurology, sleep medicine)
- Electives (inpatient, outpatient, research)
- Didactic curriculum highlights include weekly clinical case conferences highlighting stroke, epilepsy, neurocritical care, neuroimmunology and other selected subspecialty fields
- Comprehensive, textbook-based lecture series on:
- Basic clinical neurology (PGY2)
- Basic child neurology (PGY3)
- Clinical neurophysiology (PGY3)
- Weekly noon lecture series on basic and advanced topics in neurology throughout the 3-year program
- Weekly hands-on workshops (neurodiagnostics, neuropathology, neuroradiology, simulation training)
- Weekly research training and project mentoring
- Monthly journal club
- Monthly neurology/neurosurgery grand rounds
- Quarterly seminars or discussion groups addressing professionalism, ethics, cultural competency, health equity, medical economics, global neurology
- Rotation-specific didactic experiences with specialists