After completion of two years of general pediatrics, residents will complete 24 months of Child Neurology (CN), 12 months of adult neurology as required by the ABPN, and 2 months of call-free research during PGY3-5.
Our residents spend approximately 50% of the time on service and 50% exploring individualized career development through electives and research.
Residents have weekly Child Neurology continuity clinic during PGY3-5 for longitudinal management of neurologic concerns.
Child Neurology Service Rotations
Our residents gain expertise in managing inpatient and urgent pediatric neurology and enhance their leadership skills through experiences on 4 separate service rotations.
- Inpatient/Ward
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- Patients with primary neurologic diagnosis
- Dedicated Inpatient Team faculty attending
- Other team members: pediatric interns, pediatric senior resident, PA, medical students
- Inpatient Consults
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- Inpatient consults from floors, PICU, and CICU
- Dedicated Consult Team faculty attending
- Dedicated Faculty for Neonatal Neurology Consult service (in addition to consult attending) for NICU consultations
- Other team members: rotating adult neurology residents, psychiatry and child psychiatry residents, pediatric residents, medical students
- Outpatient Urgent/Emergency Room Consults
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- Urgent outpatient referrals
- Consults from the emergency room for acute neurologic concerns
- Night Float/Overnight Call
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- Management of acute neurologic concerns at the hospital and within the surrounding community overnight
- Home call with specific in-house responsibilities including: signout, feedback, and management of neurologic emergencies
- Dedicated night-time faculty support for guidance and supervision
- Personalized feedback from attendings about overnight EEG and MRI interpretation
- Neonatal Neurology
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- Separate Consult service with dedicated Neonatal attending for NICU consultations
- NICU Consults at Childrens and Magee
- Outpatient neurologic follow-up of infants after NICU discharge
- Participation with attending in prenatal consultations
Child Neurology Electives
Residents are encouraged to pursue individual clinical and scholarly interests through elective experiences and our wide variety of subspecialized clinics.
- Required Electives
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- Neurosurgery (4 weeks)
- Psychiatry (4 weeks)
- Additional Electives
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- Away rotations (US or International)
- EEG
- EMG
- Epilepsy Surgery and 8-bed Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Genetics/Metabolism
- Headache
- Neuro-critical care
- Neuro-oncology
- Neuro-ophthalmology
- Neuro-otology
- Neurodevelopmental/Developmental Medicine
- Neuropathology
- Neuroradiology
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Required for NDD)
- Research
- Sleep
- Subspecialty Clinics
- Subspecialty Clinics
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- Epilepsy
- Multi-disciplinary Epilepsy Surgery Clinic
- Headache
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
- Infantile Spasms and Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy
- Intensive Treatment Epilepsy Clinic
- Ketogenic Diet
- Movement Disorders
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Neonatal Neurology
- Neuro-Genetics
- Neuro-Immunology
- Neuro-Ophthalmology
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuromuscular Disease and EMG
- Spasticity Clinic
- Stroke
- Tourette Syndrome
- Tuberous Sclerosis
General Pediatrics and Adult Neurology Training
ACGME requirements include 2 years of general pediatrics and 12 months of adult neurolog, including 6 months of adult neurology inpatient and 6 months of adult neurology outpatient/specialty rotations. We collaborate with the UPMC Pediatrics Residency and the UPMC adult neurology program, and our residents complete the required 6 months of adult inpatient training and 1-2 months of adult outpatient rotations during their PGY-3 year. Our residents are able to schedule additional adult neurology electives either in the PGY-3 year or throughout all 3 CN training years. Residents during their PGY-3 year also participate in a 2-month research elective.
- Adult Neurology Inpatient Rotations
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6 months to meet ACGME requirements:
- Stroke
- Neurology Ward Service
- Inpatient/ER Neurology Consults
- Night Float
- Adult Neurology Outpatient/Elective Rotations
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Residents choose from the following rotations to meet ACGME requirements (6 months)
- VA Hospital Clinic
- Neuro-oncology
- EEG
- EMG
- Headache
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Movement Disorders
- Cognitive
- Concussion
- Neuromuscular Clinic
- Neuro-ophthalmology
- Neuro-otology
- Neuropathology
- Neuroradiology
- Sleep
- Women in Neurology Epilepsy Surgery
- 2 months research elective
- General Pediatrics Rotations
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24 months including:
- Emergency Medicine and Acute Illness – 3 months
- Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics – 1 month
- Adolescent Medicine – 1 month
- Newborn – 1 month
- Inpatient Pediatrics (non-ICU) – 5+ months
- Other Ambulatory Experiences – 2 months
- NICU – 2 months
- PICU – 2 months
- Additional Subspecialty – 4+ months