Pediatric Residency: Pediatric Neurology Training Program

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Neurology Residency Program


Program Overview

The combined Pediatric Neurology Residency Program is a five-year residency offered by Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) in Philadelphia and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware in Wilmington, Del. Most residents enter in the first year, and some transfer into later stages from other programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Our Fellowship Program

As a resident in this program, you’ll spend the first two years in pediatrics. The next two years are divided between adult neurology at TJU and pediatric neurology at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware. The fifth year is at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware.

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

Each year includes 13 rotations of 4 weeks each:

  • Pediatric intensive care, 8 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Night team, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Hematology/oncology, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Neonatal intensive care, 4 weeks at TJU or CCMC
  • Emergency department, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Pediatric specialty electives, 16 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Inpatient pediatrics, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Adolescent medicine, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Vacation, 4 weeks
  • Inpatient ward, 8 weeks at TJU
  • Inpatient headache, 4 weeks at Methodist Hospital (TJU)
  • Inpatient stroke, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Neurointensive care, 4 weeks TJU
  • Neuropathology, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Multispecialty clinic, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Neuroradiology, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Neurosurgery, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Inpatient pediatrics, 8 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Multispecialty clinic, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Vacation, 4 weeks
  • Inpatient ward, 8 weeks at TJU
  • Inpatient epilepsy unit, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Multispecialty clinic, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Neurointensive care, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Neuro-ophthalmology, 4 weeks at TJU
  • Inpatient pediatrics, 8 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Multispecialty clinic, 8 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Research, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Psychiatry, 4 weeks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
  • Vacation, 4 weeks 

Each year, you’ll also spend one half-day session per week in your own continuity clinic at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware. During multispecialty clinic rotations at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, you’ll rotate at clinics in Bryn Mawr, Glen Mills in Pennsylvania; and at Deptford in New Jersey.

Conferences

  • EEG Conference, Wednesdays
  • Neurology Grand Round, every 4th Wednesday
  • Neuroradiology Conference, every 1st and 3rd Thursday
  • Neurology Case Conference, every 1st Wednesday
  • Neurology Journal Club, every 2nd Wednesday

Questions About Applying

Racquel Richardson, BA
Fellowship Coordinator
(302) 298-8820
racquel.richardson@nemours.org