Child Neurology

Through our focused child neurology rotation, you will learn from child neurology faculty and senior child neurology residents as you develop specialized skills in diagnosing and managing young patients. These include:

• performing bedside procedures, including lumbar punctures
• performing age-appropriate neurological and developmental examinations and physicals
• reviewing laboratory and neuroimaging results
• managing follow-up care, including vital signs, laboratory or radiological investigation results
• gathering pertinent information from patients, families, medical records and referring physicians
• communicating effectively with patients, family members and other health care providers

You will further enhance your clinical skill set through a minimum week-long experience in the Long-Term Monitoring Unit as you evaluate children with severe seizure disorders.

You will learn from frequent dialogue with and relevant feedback from more experienced team members, as you present and discuss your assigned patients during daily rounds.

You also will build competence by actively participating in and taking your turn presenting cases during our weekly Child Neurology Conference.

You will gain an understanding of both normal and abnormal development of the nervous system through our robust didactic training.

You will encounter a wide variety of conditions in male and female pediatric patients from throughout the Western New York region, including:

• epilepsy
• multiple sclerosis
• movement disorders
• syncope and other alterations of consciousness
• psychiatric disorders
• pain
• infections

You will become an integral part of the care team in multiple settings — hospital wards, ICUs, the emergency room — and provide urgent consultations in outpatient clinics.

3 modules