Conferences for Neurology Residents

Conferences are held Monday – Thursday at noon. Residents have protected time to attend all neuroscience didactic offerings with the services being covered by Attending Physicians, rotating interns, and Neuroscience APNs. Topics include localization, board review, case studies, and core neurology curriculum.

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Conducted once daily, starts between 8:30 and 9:00 am based on attending preference. This is a core teaching rounds based or inpatient stroke, general neurology and consult services.

This is held monthly, with emphasis on key neurology articles, controversial issues/treatment, evidence based guidelines for patient care.

Held every Friday between 8:00 – 9:00 am, topics alternate between Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and research topics. The Neurology department has hosted many distinguished lecturers. The Neurology resident is expected to present a topic of their interest at grand rounds yearly.

Weekly attending- and resident-led lectures highlighting various clinical topics relevant to outpatient neurology.

Monthly retrospective review of cases for continuation of learning and improvement of patient care.

This is a weekly discussion and review of interesting cases currently on the neurology service led Department Chair Dr. Jorge Kattah.

This is a weekly review of ischemic stroke cases to learn about imaging findings, treatments, and procedures through various real-life cases.

What do these include?

  • 10 day Paid New Resident Orientation
  • Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) Certification
  • Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
  • Ethics Curriculum
  • Residents As Teachers Program
  • Practice Management Seminar
  • Evidence-Based Medicine Discussions
  • All Resident Quality and Safety Rounds
  • Quality Improvement/Patient Safety, 3 year curriculum

Friendly Competition Heading link

This is a great way to learn. Questions are pulled from board review platforms, AAN question of the day, and RITE reviews. It’s always a good time on Jeopardy day.

Newly developed!   This is a series of trivia games hosted throughout the year. Residents square off vs. residents, and the winning team goes against APN staff. The winner of Round 2 takes on the final challenge of the attending physicians.  The big bowl is held in February at an offsite location and is a pretty serious (but not serious) competition.

P.S. – The residents beat the attendings this year!