DUKE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Education
Child Neurology Residency
The second and third years of
the residency are dedicated to child neurology and clinical neuroscience
electives. A total of 12 months is spent
on the inpatient/consult pediatric neurology service and outpatient clinics
including pediatric subspecialty clinics in epilepsy, neuromuscular disease,
neurofibromatosis, headache, cerebral palsy and spasticity, autism, and
neurometabolic disease. Our program
benefits significantly from our Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit which offers
our residents unique exposure to many of the rare neurodegenerative disorders being
evaluated for transplant.
Clinical neuroscience
electives are available in child psychiatry, neuro-oncology, genetics
and
metabolism, electroencephalography and epilepsy, movement disorders,
electromyography
and neuromuscular medicine, neuroradiology, neurodevelopment and
behavior,
neurosurgery, neuropathology, neuro-ophthalmology, sleep, and
intraoperative
monitoring. A designated research
rotation is required early in the second year with the goal of the
resident designing his or her own research project to be worked on
throughout the last two years of
training. This rotation includes a
series of didactic lectures on study design and biostatistics.
Opportunities
for a basic science research elective are also available to interested
residents.
Our
program offers an academically rich environment with multiple didactic
conferences available for our residents to attend including: the Basic Neuroscience Series, Clinical
Neurophysiology Conference, Stroke Conference, Neurobehavioral Conference, Neurocritical
Care Conference, Evidence-based Medicine, and Pediatric Neurology
conference. These conferences occur
daily at noon on a rotating schedule. Adult and Pediatric Neurology Morning report, Neuroscience and Pediatric
Grand Rounds, Interesting Case Conference, Muscle Pathology Conference,
Pediatric Neurology Journal Club, Brain Cutting, and Epilepsy Conference are
each held on weekly basis and are routinely attended by our residents. As we
feel these didactic programs are very important in the development and learning
of our residents, every effort is made to assure that clinical duties do no
encroach on these teaching activities.
Our
residents also gain valuable experience in teaching and leadership throughout
their training. As the residents advance
in their training, they become more involved with the teaching of the rotating
adult neurology, pediatric, and psychiatry residents, as well as medical
students. Several formal didactic
lectures and Neuroscience Grand Rounds are given by our residents throughout
their last two years.
There are many research opportunities
available to the child neurology residents in our program. The division is actively involved in research
collaborations with our Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery, Pediatric Intensive
Care Unit, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Department of Neurobiology, Division of
Genetics and Metabolism, and the Division of Neuroradiology, as well as the
Duke Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences
and Policy, the Duke School of Engineering, and the Duke Clinical Research
Unit. Multiple research opportunities
for our residents exist during their training and may even be carried on after
completion of the program with these and other research programs here at Duke.
We
are currently interviewing for the year 2012.
The years 2010 and 2011 are already filled. We accept one candidate per year.
Our staff consists of five board-certified pediatric neurologists with
varied clinical and research interests. We accept applications through
the San Francisco Match at www.sfmatch.org. If you have any questions about the program, please email Terry Hales at terry.hales@duke.edu.
William B. Gallentine, DO
Program Director
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