Neurology Residency Program

Our Residency Program

As a resident in this program, you’ll spend the first two years in general pediatrics at Nemours. In your third year, you will be mostly at TJU for adult neurolgy rotations. You will return to Nemours for child neurolgy training in fourth and fifth year.

During the residency, you’ll master six core competencies in caring for children and young adults, from birth through age 21, in accordance with ACGME requirements:

• Patient care
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning and improvement
• Systems-based practice
• Professionalism
• Interpersonal skills and communication

At the end of the residency, you’ll be qualified to take the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology exam in neurology with special qualifications in child neurology.

This program participates in The Match.

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Rotations & Electives

First Year

• Inpatient pediatrics: 8 weeks
• Inpatient hematology/oncology: 4 weeks
• ED: 4 weeks
• Newborn nursery: 2 weeks
• NICU, 2 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights
• Night floats: 4 weeks
• Development: 2 weeks
• Adolescent medicine: 2 weeks
• Y block (clinic, elective, education, etc.): 12 weeks
• Elective: 4 weeks
• Vacation: 4 weeks

Second Year

• Inpatient pediatrics: 2 weeks
• Inpatient hematology/oncology: 2 weeks
• ED: 6 weeks
• PICU: 6 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights
• Adolescent medicine: 4 weeks
• Development: 2 weeks
• Pediatric subspecialties (pulmonology, endocrinology, renal, GI): 6 weeks
• Neurology: 2 weeks
• Night float: 4 weeks
• Y block: 12 weeks
• Vacation: 4 weeks

Third Year

Peds Neuro Bootcamp: 2 weeks
Adult Neuro Bootcamp: 2 weeks
Pediatric Neurology:

• Consults: 2 weeks
• Outpatient: 2 weeks
• EEG:1 week
• Elective: 4 weeks

Adult Inpatient (6 months):

• Wards: 6 weeks
• Stroke: 4 weeks
• EMU: 4 weeks
• Neuro ICU: 2 weeks
• Headache Unit: 2 weeks
• Consults: 6 weeks (vascular & general consults)

Adult Outpatient (2 months):

• General Neurology: 1 week
• Headache clinic: 1 week
• Neuro-Oncology: 2 weeks
• Neuromuscular 2 weeks
• Neuroimmunology: 1 week
• Movement: 1 week

Fourth Year

Pediatric Neurology:

• Consults: 16 weeks
• Outpatient: 8 weeks
• Neurosurgery: 2 weeks
• Radiology: 2 weeks
• EEG:3 weeks
• Elective: 4 weeks

Adult Outpatient: (8 weeks):

• Neuropathology: 2 weeks
• Neuromuscular clinic/EMG lab: 2 weeks
• General neuro: 3 weeks
• Headache: 1 week

Fifth Year

Pediatric Neurology:

• Consults: 14 weeks
• Outpatient: 8 weeks
• Neurosurgery: 2 weeks
• Radiology: 2 weeks
• Psychiatry: 4 weeks
• EEG: 3 weeks
• Elective: 4 weeks

Adult Outpatient (8 weeks):

• Movement: 2 weeks
• Neuroimmunology: 2 weeks
• Cognitive: 2 weeks
• Epilepsy clinic: 2 weeks

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Each year you will spend time in continuity clinic. During pediatric years it is included in Y block, and starting in PGY-3 year, you will have neurology continuity clinic. In the adult year, you will have one half-day session a week, in 4th and 5th year, you will have one full day a week when you are not on the inpatient consult service. During multispecialty outpatient clinic rotations at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, you’ll rotate at our satellite locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. You will have a chance to rotate through different subspecialties such as neuromuscular, epilepsy, neuroimmunology, neuro-ophthalmology, sleep, tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis clinics.

Educational Conferences

• Neurology Grand Rounds, monthly
• Neuroradiology Conference, twice a month
• Neurology Case Conference, 2-3 times a month
• Neurology Journal Club, monthly
• Neurology Core Lecture Series, 3-4 times a month
• Epilepsy Care Conference, weekly
• Zambia International Case Conference, monthly
• Neo-Neuro Clinical Case Conference