Curriculum

Your one-year clinical curriculum consists of 13 four-week modules. This includes two required modules of electromyography (EMG) and one module of vacation.

Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a great deal of flexibility in your training.

Delving into your own area of interest, you can concentrate your training in electroencephalography (EEG) and epilepsy or EMG and neuromuscular diseases.

You’ll have time to investigate both fields — and even change your mind, if need be. We can modify our curriculum to meet your needs.

Our pediatric and adult epileptologists will guide you through your training in EEG and epilepsy.

You’ll gain expertise in the care and treatment of epilepsy, including experience with routine EEG, long-term digital video EEG monitoring, epilepsy management, presurgical evaluation, invasive monitoring and evoked potentials.

On this track, our fellows typically complete:

• 8 modules of training in our Level 4 epilepsy center and long-term monitoring unit
• 3 modules of training in EEG/EP

Our neuromuscular specialists will teach you how to confidently administer a range of neuromuscular procedures. These include routine EMG, single-fiber EMG, nerve conduction studies, repetitive stimulation and Botox injections.

You’ll help manage adult and pediatric neuromuscular disorders in our specialized neuromuscular and Muscular Dystrophy Association clinics.

On this track, our fellows typically complete:

• 8 modules of training in EMG
• 4 modules of training in our epilepsy monitoring unit

Whichever track you select, you can take electives to enrich your understanding of our field.

We offer two:

• sleep medicine, taught by this region’s leading expert in the field
• intraoperative monitoring, taught by our department chair, a world-renowned expert on myasthenia gravis

You’ll have opportunities to teach neurology residents, primarily during your rotations.

Regardless of which rotations you take, you’ll only be on call from home — and at most, one-half day per weekend to read stat EEGs.

When you rotate through the epilepsy monitoring unit, you’ll take night call from home from Sunday to Friday. Rarely will you need to go to the hospital.