The child Neurology fellowship is an ACGME-accredited fellowship offering a three year training program to achieve board eligibility and full qualification for a career in pediatric neurology. The fellowship is coordinated with the adult neurology programs at George Washington University School of Medicine and Georgetown University School of Medicine. The program includes one year of adult neurology, one year of clinical child neurology, and one year of electives that include neuropathology at the AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology), neuroradiology, neurophysiology, epilepsy, and neurooncology. Eligible candidates will have completed at least two years of pediatric residency, or one year of pediatrics and one year of internal medicine or neuroscience research. A half-day per week continuity clinic in child neurology is held throughout the entire three year program. Children's has a large neurology faculty with wide clinical and research interests, including several members having research programs based at the NIH.
This is a highly competitive fellowship with two positions per year. There are multiple opportunities for fellows to develop research expertise both in the subspecialty programs in the department of Neurology at CNMC and in programs at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute which have working relationships with the Department of Neurology. Neurology fellows have elected to extend their fellowship for one to two years to take advantage of the programs available at the National Institute of Health.
Recent Graduates of the Child Neurology Program have pursued both clinical and research careers. Areas of research of recent graduates include neurocognitive disorders of childhood, epilepsy, childhood movement disorders, neurogenetics, stroke, and headaches (with special emphasis on pain management).
The conference schedule includes two weekly electroencephalography/clinical neurophysiology conferences, didactic lectures, clinical (intake) rounds, and monthly journal club, neuroradiology conference, and brain cutting.
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