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Residency Curriculum

Residents Learning
Highlights

  • Protected didactic time every week where non-emergent inpatient responsibilities are handled by mid-level providers to ensure uninterrupted learning and education sessions.
  • EEG/EMG review every Wednesday at noon.
  • Clinical skills or Procedure skills session (Botox, pain procedures) once a month. 
  • Dynamic curriculum that is updated every year and tailored to meet the needs of the resident to ensure outstanding performance in Evidence based medicine as well as standardized tests (RITE, neurology boards).

Grand Rounds 

Faculty from UNMC and external Neurology departments, as well as adjacent specialties and topics Speakers are invited to give grand rounds every Thursday. One grand rounds presentation is required for each resident in his/her training period.  

Neurology Lecture Series 

Protected didactic time every Thursday for three hours. The curriculum is organized into blocks and spans 18 months to ensure repetition with updates during three years of Neurology training. Lectures and grand rounds are recorded to be accessed by residents on the local network. 

EEG Lecture Series 

Being a comprehensive epilepsy center with access to advanced diagnostics and varied patient population, we have ample opportunities to get in-depth exposure to EEG and epilepsy. We have designed a parallel learning track with patient-based neuro-electrophysiology lectures and EEG/EMG rounds On two Wednesdays a month 

QUIPS 

Quality improvement and patient safety lectures encompassing a non-judgmental, root cause analysis and in-depth review of existing practices and policies and discussions to implement new protocols if needed. These sessions are led by Neuro-hospitalist and patient safety director, Dr. T. Scott Diesing 

Journal Club 

Meet once every month where residents do a critical review and analysis of a journal article, following AAN guidelines. 

Morning Reports 

Once a month, we dissect and analyze a case in depth to promote critical analysis and to learn to think out of the box.  

Procedure Skills Session 

Our neurology residency incorporates various simulation sessions into the curriculum. This training session teaches residents how to perform procedures that are typically performed at inpatient and outpatient settings. We have our annual neurocritical care ICU simulation session and stroke code simulation sessions every year in July to prepare residents to take on new responsibilities.