M-3 Clerkship

Cognitve Neurology and Interface with Psychiatry

During this 3-week rotation the M3 students will:

Become familiar with neurologic disorders that have cognitive and behavioral manifestations
They will be trained and observed as they perform a basic neurologic examination
Preparation for the Psychiatry Shelf Examination
Introduction to Neuro-Rehabiliation

Lectures:

Skills:

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.

Power Point 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)

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

Sondra Fox
Clerkship Coordinator
309-655-7779
[email protected]