Neurology Clerkships

The Department of Neurology offers M3 and M4 clerkships.

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During this 3-week rotation, the M3 students will:

Become familiar with neurologic disorders that have cognitive and behavioral manifestations
Be trained and observed as they perform a basic neurologic examination
Prepare for the Psychiatry Shelf Examination
Be introduced to Neuro-Rehabiliation

The Essential Neurologic Findings (Dr. Kattah)
Common Abnormal Neurologic Findings with Localization Value (Dr. Kattah)
Coma
Epilepsy Essentials (Dr. Xu and Dr. Huang)
Neuroimaging (Dr. Elias Samaha)
Language and Aphasia, Left Hemisphere Function (Dr. Kattah)
Higher Cortical Function-Frontal lobe, Non-dominant Temporal and Parietal Lobes. Cortical Visual Fnction (Dr. Kattah)
Dementia (Dr. Franada)
Stroke Essentials (Dr. Talkad and Dr. Reddy)
Eye Movements Supranuclear/Infranuclear/Cranial Nerve Palsy
The Acute Vestibular Syndrome, Vertigo and Ataxia

Basic Neurologic Examination
Write up of assigned cases with review and feedback by attending
Folstein. Mini-Mental Status Scale. MOCA. Language evaluation and non-dominant parietal lobe testing.

Presentation: At the end of the rotation on a case selected by the student for its interest with review of recent literature

Practical: Two calls during the rotation — one weekday (5 p.m. to midnight) and one weekend day (9 a.m. to midnight)

Sleep Medicine
Stroke and Neurovascular Neurology
Neurophthlamology , Eye Movements and Vestibular Medicine (General Neurology Teaching service)

Upon completion of this elective, the student will be able to:

History taking and physical examination of patients with neurological problems, lesion localization and differential diagnosis.
Use the laboratory in an integrated fashion, selectively and with a hypothesis-formulating approach in the further exploration of a given case.
Non-invasive Neurological Diagnostic Tests
Computerized tomography (CT Scan)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and angiography (MRA)
Doppler carotid flow studies
Electrophysiologic testing in neurologic disorders
Head and neck arteriography, CT Angiography
Demonstrate the initial workup, investigations, and management of acute neurologic emergencies and provide night call coverage of emergency services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.
Observe and in some cases perform, under supervision, lumbar puncture for CSF examination
Familiarity with the NIH Stroke Scale management of stroke
Opportunity to present cases to attendings and to demonstrate neurologic history and examination skills