Building on your inpatient multiple sclerosis (MS) experiences, you will develop your ability to care for patients in outpatient settings. You will have broad exposure to patients in a region with one of the highest MS disease rates in the nation as you learn cutting-edge strategies from our internationally recognized MS specialists in our comprehensive, multidisciplinary Jacobs MS Center for Treatment and Research.
From diagnosis through follow up, you will gain expertise as you:
- recognize symptoms and localize neurologic lesions
- use and interpret common diagnostic tests: blood tests, lumbar puncture results, evoked potentials, MRIs and neuropsychologic evaluations
- apply MRI-based McDonald criteria to an MS diagnosis to demonstrate the dissemination of central nervous system lesions in space and time
- formulate differential diagnoses incorporating patients’ medical history and neurological exam abnormalities
- understand systemic approaches to managing MS
- develop care plans, including follow-up diagnostic tests and treatment, according to evidence-based medical knowledge in MS
- make use of MS-specific disease-modifying therapies and symptomatic drugs