Residency Training Program

Our three year ACGME accredited (*non-integrated) Neurology Residency Program is competitive and challenging and offers a diverse teaching population with a stimulating learning environment.

*non-integrated — our program does not include a PGY1 preliminary year of training in Internal Medicine. We accept residents who have satisfactorily completed the initial preliminary PGY1 in Internal Medicine in the United States or Canada prior to the three-year residency program.

First Year Requirements include broad clinical experience in internal medicine fulfilling one of two requirements; 8 months of primary patient care responsibility in internal medicine or 6 months of primary patient care responsibility in internal medicine and 2 months total time in emergency medicine or pediatrics. For both options, residents must not spend more than 2 months in neurology during the required year.

The purpose of the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston Neurology Residency Training Program is to prepare the clinician for the independent practice of neurology. Neurology is a clinical medical specialty. It is defined as a clinical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease that affect the nervous system including the central (brain and spinal cord), peripheral (nerves and roots), and autonomic nervous systems, their coverings, blood supply, and effectors (muscles). For these nervous system diseases, the neurologist is the principle care physician and may render all levels of care commensurate with his or her training.

The structure of the training program is based on supervised clinical work for inpatient services and outpatient services. A strong educational program of organized instruction in the basic neurosciences and clinical neurosciences is integrated into the program and provides balance to the structured rotations for the clinical experiences. The clinical rotation schedule is designed to provide the resident in training with clinical experience and direction from all the designated clinical teaching and supervising faculty. There is increasing responsibility provided by the structure of the program with an emphasis on primary inpatient care in the first year of training and an emphasis on consultation in the final year of training.

The basic curriculum for the University of Texas – Houston Neurology Residency Training Program for patient care and clinical experience provides a minimum of 18 months (full–time equivalent) of clinical adult neurology with management responsibility for patient care. The basic clinical curriculum also includes at least 6 months (full-time equivalent) of outpatient experience in clinical neurology and a longitudinal/continuity care clinic for the entire three-year program. Lastly, the basic curriculum for clinical care provides the minimum three months (full-time equivalent) in clinical child neurology with management responsibility in patient care. These program requirements are in accord with the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Residency Review Committee (RRC) Neurology Program Requirements.

Synopsis

ACGME Program Requirements:
• Basic Curriculum must include patient care, teaching and research.
• 18 months of full-time equivalent clinical adult neurology with management responsibility for patient care
• 6 months of full time equivalent of outpatient experience in adult clinical neurology
• Continuity Clinic (see details below)
• Minimum of 3 months full-time equivalent in Child Neurology
• 1 month rotation in psychiatry

Teaching Institution/Facilities

• Memorial Hermann Hospital System
• Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital
• MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Methodist Hospital

Applicants

• Applications are only accepted through the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS)
• UT Neurology participates in the National Residency Match Program (NRMP)

UT Medical School Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology

Call schedule average call as a:
• PGY 2 is 4 to 6 calls/months
• PGY 3 is 2 to 3 calls/months
• PGY 4 is no overnight call
We take home calls during the coverage of MD Anderson and LBJ hospital. Plenty of research opportunity is available for residents in the majority of subspecialty.

Pediatric Neurology Residents

• Brian Aalbers
• Michael Pearlman
• Zsila Saddiqqi
• Shade Moody

Available Fellowships

• Stroke and Stroke interventional track
• Multiple sclerosis
• Movement disorder
• Neuro-oncology
• Neuromuscular
• Epilepsy

UT Neurology Alumni

• Khaled Hanafy – Columbia University Neurointensive Care
• Winnie Pao – Mayo Clinic Cognitive Neurology
• Oleg Chernysev – Stroke at UT Houston
• Ameer Almullahassani – Neuromuscular at UT
• Jing Wu – Neuro oncology at MD Anderson
• Anita Madan – Movement disorder

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