Neurology Residency Program

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/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children 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).

Program Features

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 duPont Hospital for Children. The fifth year is at duPont Hospital for Children.

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:

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

Leadership & Faculty

• Stephen Falchek, MD, Residency Program Director, Pediatric Neurology Residency Program, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
• Neurologists, Delaware Valley