Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs

Neurology Residency/Fellowship Programs

Colleges award this field under 8 named programs, from Neurology Residency Program to Neurology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other.

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Colleges may offer this field under 8 more specific program names. The program you choose affects the courses you take.

Neurology Residency Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of all types of disease or impaired function of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles and autonomic nervous system, as well as the blood vessels that relate to these structures.
Child Neurology Residency Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and management of neurologic disorders of the neonatal period, infancy, early childhood, and adolescence. Requires training in neurology with additional training in child neurology.
Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and management of central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system disorders using a combination of clinical evaluation and electrophysiologic testing such as electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and nerve conduction studies (NCS). Requires prior completion of a residency program in neurology, child neurology, or psychiatry.
Epilepsy Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with epileptic seizures or with symptoms and signs whose differential diagnosis includes epileptic seizures. Requires prior completion of a residency program in neurology.
Headache Medicine Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the diagnosis, treatment, and research of headache and related disorders. Requires prior completion of a residency program in neurology.
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians to treat children having developmental delays or learning disorders, including those associated with visual and hearing impairment, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, autism, and other chronic neurologic conditions. Requires prior completion of a residency program in neurology, child neurology, or pediatrics.
Vascular Neurology Fellowship Program: Prepares physicians in the evaluation, prevention, treatment, and recovery from vascular diseases of the nervous system resulting from a large number of causes, such as ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, spinal cord ischemia, and spinal cord hemorrhage. Requires prior completion of a residency program in neurology or child neurology.
Neurology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other: Neurology not listed above.

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