Clinical Neuroscience Clerkship 5 Credits/Maximum of 5

Catalog description

The Clinical Neuroscience (CNS) Clerkship is a four-week or equivalent (i.e: longitudinal integrated clerkship) required clerkship designed to expose medical students to a wider array of neurological conditions than can be adequately covered in a traditional clinical neurology clerkship. The clerkship emphasizes an adult neurology experience which is achieved through immersion on an inpatient neurology service (general inpatient neurology or stroke inpatient service). The immersion into adult neurology is supplemented by additional selectives that students choose based upon their individual interests while meeting core learning objectives of the clerkship: 1. A 2-week selective in neurosurgery or neurosurgery + neurocritical care enhances students¿ exposure to brain, spine and peripheral nerve trauma; back and neck pain; intracranial (subarachnoid and intracerebral) hemorrhage; nervous system tumors; functional neurosurgery; the surgical management of epilepsy; and surgical pediatric/congenital nervous system disorders; 2. A 1-week selective in pediatric neurology exposes them to a variety of medical pediatric/congenital nervous disorders; 3. A 1- or 2-week outpatient neurology selective provides a broad exposure to a variety of adult neurological disorders managed in an outpatient clinic setting; 4. A 1-week stand-alone neuroscience critical care selective provides exposure to the critical care management of patients with severe neurological disorders, including treatment of status epilepticus, intracranial hypertension, and acute spinal cord injuries, and evaluation of the patient in coma; and 5. A 1-week selective in PM&R provides exposure to the functional evaluation of neurological disorders and the interprofessional rehabilitative management of patients recovering from acute neurological disorders and those with chronic neurological disease.