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Child Neurology Curriculum
The child neurology residency curriculum includes:
6 months of inpatient services (including 2 months of Adult Epilepsy Monitoring Unit)
12 months of adult neurology
- 6 months of inpatient services
- 3 months of ambulatory
- 3 months of adult electives
- Adult continuity clinics
24 months of child neurology
- 2 months of pediatric neurophysiology (combination of epilepsy and neuromuscular testing)
- 4 months of ambulatory - outpatient services
- Outpatient rotation in pediatric neurosurgery
- Outpatient rotation in pediatric psychiatry
- 1 month pediatric neurophysiology
- Other rotations may include: epidemiology and statistics, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neural and behavioral development, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, and neuropsychology.
- 8 months of inpatient child neurology
Resident work hours will be fully complain with AGCME duty hour regulations.
Moonlighting
Moonlighting is allowed with approval of the program directors. By ACGME mandate, moonlighting hours must be reported and included in calculations of total work hours; the sum of resident program and moonlighting hours must not exceed 80 hours/week.
Child Neurology Didactic Topics
Development
- Speech
- Motor
- Embryology review of disease
- CNS malformations
- Autism
- ADHD
Epilepsy
- Neonatal Seizures
- Pediatric Epilepsy I
- Pediatric Epilepsy II
- Epilepsy Pharmacology
Neurogenetics
- Chromosomal Anomalies
- Dysmorphology
- Update on Genetic Testing
- Metabolic disorders I (Pathways)
- Metabolic disorders II (Selected disorders)
- Metabolic disorders III (Selected disorders)
- Mitochondrial disease
- Inherited leukodystrophy
Headaches
- Headaches in childhood
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
ID
- CNS infections
Movement Disorders
- Overview of Movement Disorders
- Benign Infant Movements
- Tourette Syndrome
Muscle
- Introduction to hypotonia (exam, differential)
- Hypotonia II (cerebral causes)
- Hypotonia III (peripheral causes)
- “Cerebral Palsy”
- Muscular Dystrophies Pathology
- Muscular Dystrophies Treatment
- SMA/Genetic myopathies
Neurooncology Review
Neuroopthalmology
- Disorders of Ocular Motility in Children
- Papilledema
Palliative care for the neurologically ill child
Psychiatry
- Medical Management of psychiatric disorders in children
Psychology
- Psychotherapy
Sleep
- Pediatric Sleep disorders
Therapy/Rehab
- Speech therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Pediatric TBI
General Neurology lectures
- Pediatric Ataxia (Acquired and hereditary disorders)
- Neurologic Consequences of prematurity
- Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
- Macrocephaly/hydrocephalus
- Demyelinating disease
- Update on Pediatric Stroke
- Neurocutaneous disorders I (TS, SWS)
- Neurocutaneous disorders II (NF)
In addition to these topics, we have an ongoing Ethics series with our program leadership and separate Board Review sessions with all our faculty.