Course Director: Ronald Kanner, MD

This rotation provides experience on an active clinical neurology service. Students see in-patients and out-patients perform clinical evaluations including detailed neurological examinations and review medical findings with senior residents and attending physicians. For out-patient experience, the students attend the General Neurology Clinic, the Epilepsy Clinic, the Muscular Dystrophy Clinic and the Movement Disorder Clinic. There is a regular schedule of clinical, neuropathologic and didactic conferences in addition to teaching rounds on the in-patient service. Students are provided with a faculty tutor for the duration of the rotation and together they review a structured series of clinical problems designed to provide an overview of the most important disorders affecting the nervous system (e.g., coma, seizures, cerebrovascular disease and dementia).

Here are a few tips to make the most of the rotation:

1. Review neuroscience
2. Learn the neurology exam
3. Learn to localize
4. Read, read, read (you should generally carry at least one textbook with you at all times)

Note, a minimum of four weeks attendance is required for this rotation.