Neuroscience Clerkship 6 Credits/Maximum of 6

Catalog description

This Clerkship is designed to expose medical students to a wide array of neurological conditions involving the nervous system and its coverings/support structures. On the Hershey campus, the clerkship maintains a core 2-week adult neurology experience that includes one week on either the stroke or the neurocritical care unit (NCCU) services and one week on either the inpatient general neurology or neurology consult services, plus an additional 2 weeks of selectives that provide exposure to other neuroscience disciplines - outpatient neurology, pediatric neurology, and/or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR): The 1-week outpatient neurology selective provides a broad exposure to a variety of adult neurological disorders managed in an outpatient clinic setting, including headache, stroke, movement disorders, neuromuscular medicine, neurophysiology and electrodiagnostics, epilepsy, cognitive and behavioral medicine, and neuroimmunology. The 1-week selective in pediatric neurology provides exposure to a variety of medical pediatric/congenital nervous disorders in inpatient and outpatient settings. The 1-week selective in PMR provides exposure to the functional evaluation of neurological disorders and the multidisciplinary rehabilitative management of patients recovering from acute neurological disorders and those with chronic neurological disease.