Neurology Clerkship. 4 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This core clerkship is designed to give the student experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with neurologic disorders. The format of the clerkship consists of three weeks on a variety of inpatient services and one week in the outpatient clinic setting. During the clerkship, students will attend didactics, grand rounds, and a lumbar puncture clinical skills lab. The student will be expected to participate in the complete care of assigned patients spending time at six possible inpatient services: UH wards, VA wards, UH stroke team, UH neuro-intensive care unit, pediatric neurology, and UH neurological consult service. Outpatient rotations will be in Neurology subspecialty or private practice clinics. Students will work with multidisciplinary teams in a variety of different settings, and they will be exposed to a variety of neurological disorders. The goal of the rotation is to allow the student to master the neurological exam and enhance their knowledge of the most common neurological diseases.