Adult
Neurology Residency Program
The Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern Feinberg School
of Medicine welcomes your interest in our neurology residency program.
The goal of our program is to train highly professional and caring neurologists
who will be able to pursue productive careers in clinical or basic science
neurology and become leaders in their fields. Neurology at Northwestern
has a rich tradition of excellence in clinical care, research, and education.
The department, headed by John A. Kessler, MD, has a commitment to training
the next generation of neurologists by providing broad expertise in all
subspecialty areas of neurology and being at the forefront of the neurosciences. We
are proud to be ranked among the top neurology departments nationally
(US News and World Report) and to have one of the premier neuroscience
research programs in the country.
Fellowship Program
The Department is committed to recruiting and training fellows to excel in
academic neurology. Our faculty, with expertise in a variety of subspecialty
areas of neurology, emphasizes strong mentorship of fellows and junior faculty
members. Currently we offer subspecialty training in the following areas: Neuromuscular
disorders, clinical neurophysiology, sleep medicine, stroke, neurocritical
care, behavioral and cognitive neurology and movement disorders. In addition
Northwestern has an extensive neuroscience community that offers outstanding
research opportunities for fellows during and after their clinical training.
Physician
Scientist Training Program (PSTP)
The Department of Neurology has established an integrated Physician-Scientist
Training Program (PSTP) for graduates of M.D/Ph.D. programs and for recently
graduated M.D.s who have had extensive experience in the conduct of research. The
intent of this program is to facilitate the transition from neurology residency
training to a productive career in biomedical research. Research training will
start during the PGY-3 year. The trainees will be given the opportunity to
spend their elective months doing either basic or clinical research. Research
training will be completed under the mentorship of any faculty member at Northwestern
University.
Medical
Student Education
The Department of Neurology is very involved in teaching and mentoring medical
students. The Director of Medical Student Education in Neurology is Ramadevi
Gourineni, MD. In the second-year course, Scientific Basis of Medicine,
faculty members lecture on such topics as neuroanatomy, epilepsy, movement
disorders, traumatic brain injury, stroke, sleep disorders, headache, dementia,
microbiology of central nervous system diseases, and the neuropathology of
tumors and vascular diseases as well as other topics during the neurology section
of the course. During the end of the second year, the clerkship director teaches
the students neurological exam skills in a workshop consisting of stations
with both standardized and real patients. Senior residents and students
act as volunteer teachers. In addition the neurology faculty is very
involved in mentoring medical students at all levels of training through SIGN
(student interest group in neurology). This is the second biggest SIGN
group in the nation.
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