Neurology Clerkships
The Department of Neurology offers M3 and M4 clerkships.
M-3 Clerkship Heading link
Cognitive 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
- Be trained and observed as they perform a basic neurologic examination
- Prepare for the Psychiatry Shelf Examination
- Be introduced to Neuro-Rehabiliation
Lectures:
- The Essential Neurologic Findings (Dr. Kattah)
- Common Abnormal Neurologic Findings with Localization Value (Dr. Kattah)
- Coma
- 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
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.
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)
M-4 Clerkship Heading link
Electives
- 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
For More Information Heading link
Sondra Fox
Medical Education Program Specialist