Residency Program Curriculum

Our program follows the ACGME guidelines for Curriculum Organization and Resident Experiences.

PGY-1 year: must provide broad clinical experience in general internal medicine and include at least one of the following:
1.    eight months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care, or
2.    six months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care and a period of at least two months comprising one or more months of pediatrics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, or family medicine. (Resident education in neurology during the first year must not exceed four months.)

PGY 2-4 years must provide: 
1.    minimum of 18 months (FTE) of clinical adult neurology. This must include
1.    at least six months of inpatient experience in adult neurology
2.    at least six months of outpatient experience in clinical adult neurology. The outpatient experience must include a resident longitudinal/continuity clinic with attendance by each resident at a minimum of 40 half-day clinics a year throughout the educational program. The longitudinal/continuity clinic must not be interrupted by more than five weeks.
3.    At least three months of the outpatient experience must be outside the longitudinal/continuity clinic.
4.    a minimum of three months of elective time
5.    a minimum of three months FTE in clinical child neurology
6.    at least one-month FTE in clinical psychiatry, including cognition and behavior
7.    clinical teaching rounds supervised by faculty members at least five days per week and, exposure to and understanding of evaluation and management of patients with neurological disorders in various settings, including an intensive care unit and an emergency department and for patients requiring acute neurosurgical management.
8.    Residents must have clinical and didactic experiences in all aspects of neurology, including behavioral neurology, child neurology, clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, headache, infectious disease, movement disorders, neurocritical care, neurogenetics, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurology of aging, neuromuscular medicine, neuro oncology, neurotology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropathology, pain management, sleep disorders and vascular neurology. Clinical and didactic experiences in neuroimaging must include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT), and neurosonology.
9.    Residents must attend required seminars, conferences and journal clubs. Seminars and conferences must include the full spectrum of neurological disorders across the lifespan. The curriculum must include the basic scientific foundations of clinical neurology.
10.    Residents must attend at least one national professional conference during their three years of residency. Residents should receive financial support to attend at least one national professional conference.