Psychiatry: one half day per month in the pediatric neuroassessment program (12 months)
Rehabilitation: assisting the rehabilitation team with patient assessment and treatment (two weeks)
Research: designing and implementing a basic science or clinical research project with emphasis placed on presenting findings at an academic meeting and/or in a publication (three months)

Conferences

The program's strong commitment to resident education is reflected in the wide variety of teaching conferences provided each month. The weekly neuroscience grand rounds, attended by the departments of adult neurology, child neurology, neurosurgery, and radiology, begins with one hour of discussion of neuroradiology cases, followed by a clinical or basic science lecture.

Separate hour-long EMG and EEG seminars are held once a week, with an emphasis on applying fundamental principles to the interpretation of studies. The adult neurology residency program hosts a weekly clinical conference or Journal Club at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center, to which child neurology residents are welcome. Additional neuroscience lectures, with an emphasis on preparation for board examinations, are scheduled for one to two hours a week.

Residents are encouraged to take increasing responsibility in organizing and preparing grand rounds presentations, neuroscience lectures, and monthly basic neurology lectures for pediatric residents and medical students. Residents are also encouraged to assist in brain-cutting laboratories and to supervise problem-based learning sessions for freshman medical students taking anatomy.

Conference schedule
Monday: None
Tuesday: EMG conference 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday: neuroscience grand rounds 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., VA conference 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Thursday: None
Friday: pediatric grand rounds 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., EEG and neurosciences 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.

More details:Neurology Residency Program

This article is reposted with thanks to Loma Linda University Medical Center.

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