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 for PGY1 and currently PGY3 positions.

Rotations & Electives

First Year

• Inpatient pediatrics, 8 weeks
• Inpatient hematology/oncology, 4 weeks
• Emergency Department, 4 weeks
• Newborn nursery, 2 weeks
• Neonatal intensive care, 2 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights
• Night floats, 4 weeks
• Developmental medicine, 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
• Emergency Department, 6 weeks
• Pediatric intensive care, 6 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights
• Adolescent medicine, 4 weeks
• Developmental medicine, 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

• EEG/epilepsy, 4 weeks
  
• Inpatient neurology, 5 weeks
• Stroke, 4 weeks
• Consults (general and vascular), 6 weeks
• Epilepsy monitoring unit, 4 weeks
• Neuro ICU, 2 weeks 
• Inpatient headache, 5 weeks
• Neuromuscular/EMG, 2 weeks
• Neuro-Oncology, 2 weeks
• Outpatient clinics (general, headache, MS, movement), 9 weeks
• Pathology, 2 weeks
• Vacation, 4 weeks

Fourth Year

• Consults, 16 weeks
  
• Outpatient, 10 weeks
• Neurosurgery, 4 weeks
• Radiology, 4 weeks
• EEG, 4 weeks
• Elective, 5 weeks

Fifth Year

• Consults, 16 weeks
  
• Outpatient, 10 weeks
• Neurosurgery, 2 weeks
• Radiology, 4 weeks
• Pssychiatry, 4 weeks
• EEG, 5 weeks
• Elective, 5 weeks

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 clinics in Glen Mills in Pennsylvania, and at Deptford in 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