In-Patient Neurology

ELEC547

Department
Neurology

Clinical or Non-Clinical Course
Clinical

Physician Assessed Patient Facing
Yes

Prerequisites
Pre-Approval from Course Director

Other
For Non-UICOM Students: USMLE/Comlex 1 pass 1st attempt; USMLE/Comlex 2 >250 if available

Goal
This elective will provide visiting students with the opportunity to work alongside the inpatient neurology resident teams to care for patients in the general neurology, neurology ICU, and stroke wards. The student will gain exposure to a wide range of pathologies that these services encounter. Students will participate in all aspects of neurologic patient care as well as attend daily didactics with the neurology residents. Typical hours are 0700-1630, one weekday you will be assigned a late call, which will end by 2000. You will be assigned one weekend call of 0700-1900.

Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Actively engage in patient care of a wide variety of neurologic patient pathologies
  2. Demonstrate the ability of history taking and physical examination of patients with common neurological problems and formulate a clinical differential diagnosis.
  3. Become familiar with neurological testing used to create a hypothesis-formulating approach in the further exploration of a given case, utilizing the following tests and identifying their indications and contradictions

    4. a. Electroencephalography
    b. Computerized Tomography
    c. Magnetic resonance imaging and angiography
    d. Doppler carotid flow studies
    e. Lumbar puncture

  4. Demonstrate initial workup, investigations, and management of common acute neurological emergencies and stroke
  5. Successfully complete lumbar puncture simulation
  6. Understand the unique learning atmosphere and camaraderie of our neurology residency program.

Method of Assessment
Standard Clinical 4wk Elective Evaluation - Honors/High Pass/Pass/Fail

Course Director
Tiffani Franada, D.O.

Course Coordinator
Sondra Fox
sphidden@uic.edu
309.655.7779

Location
OSF SFMC

Setting
Inpatient

Night Call
Yes

Please Specify
1 late shift/call until approx 7 pm

Laboratory
No

Weekends
Yes

Please Specify
1 day call 7 am - 7 pm

House Staff
No

Number of Learners per Block
2

Duration
4 weeks

Who is this elective available to
Both M3s and M4s

Blocks Available
Blocks 1-8