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Neurology Residency Columbia - Curriculum

Neurology educational experiences

The primary mission of our residency program is to train outstanding clinicians of the highest quality to provide neurological care to people in need. A secondary goal is to identify and nurture potential clinician-researchers and clinician-educators who will become academic physicians themselves. The neurology residency curriculum has been designed to accomplish both of those goals, reinforcing the core competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal skills and communication, professionalism, and systems-based practice.

Residency year one  

  • Internal Medicine (PHR and VA) Wards:  4 Blocks
  • CCU: 1 Block
  • IM Subspecialties:  2 Blocks (choose from endocrinology, cardiology, infectious disease and rheumatology)
  • Ambulatory IM:  1 Block
  • Neurology:  4 Blocks (2 blocks inpatient, 2 blocks consults)
  • Emergency Medicine (2 wks)/ Ophthalmology (2 wks):  1 Block

Residency year two

  • PH Inpatient:  3 Blocks
  • PH Neurology Consult: 4 Blocks
  • EEG/EMG: 1 Block
  • Electives:  3 Blocks
  • Night Float:  2 Blocks

Residency year three

  • PH Neurology Sr. Inpatient/Consult: 4 Blocks
  • PH Inpatient/Consult: 1 Block
  • PH Night Float: 2 Blocks
  • Electives: 2 Blocks
  • Child Neurology: 2 Blocks
  • Psychiatry: 1 Block
  • NeuroScience ICU: 1 Block

Residency year four

  • PH Sr. Inpatient/Consult: 4 Blocks
  • PH Night Float: 1 Block
  • Child Neurology: 1 Block
  • Electives: 7 Blocks

Electives

  • EEG
  • EMG
  • Ambulatory
  • Neuro-ophthalmology 
  • Neuro-otology 
  • Sleep 
  • Pain 
  • Neurorehabilitation 
  • Neuro-oncology 
  • Neurosurgery 
  • Neuroradiology  
  • Cardiology  
  • Vascular US with Dr. Sen  
  • Away elective
  • Research

Residents will complete 2 blocks of EEG/EMG, 1 block for research/QI project, 1 block of NSICU and 1 block of Ambulatory as "selectives" between PGY 2–4.

Residents are also required to complete 1 block of Psychiatry and 3 blocks of Pediatric Neurology prior to graduation. These are mandatory cores. 

Neuroscience noon conference schedule

12–1 p.m.: 1 Medical Park, Suite 230 Conference Room

Daily morning report, 8–9 a.m.

Bi-weekly M&M conference, 7–8 a.m., 9th Floor Neuroscience ICU Conference Room

  • Monday – Weekly didactic lecture
  • Tuesday – Neuro-physiology case conference
  • Wednesday – Vascular case conference/monthly vascular JC/neuro imaging case conference
  • Thursday – Neurology grand rounds
  • Friday – Monthly neurology JC/board review/house staff meeting in addition, 1–2 .pm. Quarterly neuro-ophthalmology case conference.
Continuity clinics

PGY 2–4 continuity clinic
Monday PM/Wednesday AM/PM/ Friday PM
Prisma Health Neurology – 8 Medical Park, Suite 420

Resident procedures clinic
Thursdays, 8:30 a.m.–noon w/ Swamy Venkatesh, MD
Prisma Health Neurology – 8 Medical Park, Suite 420