Schedule & Rotations

Overview

Four or five fellows per year

  • Fellows share clinical responsibilities & calls
  • Rotating schedules

Fellows on the consult and electrodiagnostic services

  • Make inpatient rounds with attendings
  • Teach resident(s) who are rotating on the neuromuscular service
  • Attends most outpatient clinics

Fellows who are off the consult and electrodiagnostic services

  • Attend all outpatient clinics
  • Elective time: electrodiagnostics, ultrasound and research

All fellows conduct a clinical or lab research project

Fellows who stay for a 2nd or 3rd year

  • Do clinical or laboratory research
  • Attend a half-day weekly neuromuscular clinic
  • Perform EMGs & neuromuscular pathology as interested

Outcomes

  • Academic clinical practice: 70%
  • Non-academic clinical practice: 30%

Sample schedule

DayTimeTopicLocationAudience
Monday7:30 – 8:30 a.m.EMG Lecture (Al-Lozi)Choi conference roomAll fellows
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.EMG Lecture (All others)Choi conference roomAll fellows
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.Neuromuscular Sign-outAll fellows
Tuesday8:00 – 9:00 a.m.EMG course/Morning report/QI conference1Choi conference roomAll fellows
9:00 – 12:00 p.m.NM procedure clinicCAM 6th floorElective (optional)
9:00 – 12:00 p.m.Inclusion body myositis clinicCAM 6th floorElective (optional)
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.2nd, 4th Tuesday of month.
Multidisciplinary DMD clinic		SLCH 2130Elective, Peds fellows
Wednesday7:50 – 12:00 a.m.Pediatric neuromuscular clinicMcMillan lower levelElective, Peds fellows
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.Pathology case series ZoomAll fellows
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.2nd half of year
Neuromuscular lecture (fellow led)		Choi Conference roomAll fellows
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.1st half of year
Neuromuscular lecture (faculty led)		Choi Conference roomAll fellows
Thursday7:50 a.m. – EODAdult neuromuscular clinicCAM 6th floorAll fellows
EMG fellow to EMG lab in the morning
Friday7:45 a.m. – EODNeurology Grand RoundsFarrell Learning and Teaching Center
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Peripheral neuropathy clinicPeds consult fellow attends
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.Journal club2ZoomAll fellows
1:30 – 5:00 p.m.1st and 2nd Friday of month
Neuro-cardiology clinic		CAM 8th floorPeds consults fellow attends
1 EMG course in beginning of year. Morning report or QI conference given by fellows and faculty thereafter.
2 Everybody picks a new article to present every week. Attendings pick article 1st Friday of each month.

Standard rotations

  • Clinical neuromuscular disorders
  • Electrophysiology and ultrasound
  • Clinical research and elective time
  • Elective
    • Research
    • Electrodiagnostic
    • Laboratory
    • Nerve & muscle pathology
    • Other areas for board certification
  • All include attending supervision

Fellows participate in

  • Clinical & electrodiagnostic services
  • Teaching neurology residents
  • Clinical research
  • Conferences
    • Neuromuscular
    • Neurophysiology
    • Pathology