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Teaching Opportunities

Residents during a training conference The University of Rochester Department of Neurology is nationally recognized for its innovative medical student curriculum in the neural sciences and in clinical neurology. Neurology residents participate extensively in medical student teaching in both the pre-clinical and clinical strands of the curriculum. Residents also receive training in teaching and evaluating students.

The University of Rochester Medical School implemented a new problem-based curriculum in August 1999. The first-year Neural Science course and the second-year Neuropathology course have been combined with neuropharmacology, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology into a new nine-week problem-based-learning course in the second year titled "Mind, Brain and Behavior." All neurology PGY-4s serve as laboratory and small group instructors in this new course and attend all lectures and laboratory sessions. Their participation in this course augments their basic neuroscience knowledge, as well as their teaching skills.

All neurology residents are responsible for teaching the fundamentals of neurology to medical students, neurosurgery residents, anesthesiology residents, emergency medicine residents, and internal medicine residents rotating on the various neurology inpatient and outpatient services. The fundamentals that are taught include the neurological examination, the diagnostic approach to neurological problems, and the care of neurological illnesses.

Additionally, all neurology residents present patients at morning report, Grand Rounds, attending rounds, and conferences.

International Opportunities

The Department of Neurology has a formal affiliation encompassing teaching and research with the Neurology Clinic at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum in Krakow, Poland. The Jagiellonian University was founded in 1364 and is situated in one of the most beautiful medieval and renaissance cities in central Europe. Third-year residents have the opportunity to travel to Krakow for four weeks to teach neurology to a group of Polish medical students at the university.

Neurology Fellowships

Fellowship opportunities encompassing clinical care and basic and clinical research are available in the following subspecialty areas:

Research opportunities are also available in the laboratories of basic scientists working on neural regeneration and plasticity, neural development, nervous system aging, neurotransmitter and receptor identification, and neural transplantation.