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Neurology Consult & Clinics Externship

NEUR 5003

Category: Clinical
Eligible: Clerkship +
Length: 4 weeks

Course Description: This elective is designed to provide an introduction into decision making in Neurology. The student will attend Adult Neurology Clinics and participate in the direct evaluation of patients. There is ample opportunity to examine and evaluate patients with a wide range of neurological problems. A close working relationship with the neurology attending faculty will allow maximal learning potential.

Neurology Research

NEUR 5006

Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: All
Length: 4 weeks

Course Description: This elective will allow the student an opportunity to concentrate on a specific area of Neurology. Clinical responsibility and/or research opportunities are available. In most instances, the specific program can be tailored to the interests and needs of the student. These electives must be arranged with the individual preceptor at least two months prior to the beginning of the rotation.

Neurology Off-Campus Externship

NEUR 5008

Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 2 or 4 weeks

Course Description: This elective is designed to provide students an opportunity to do an elective in Neurology at another residency program or institution.

UME/GME Education: Osler Apprenticeship

NEUR 5012

Category: Non-Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 6 weeks

Course Description: The OSLER Neurology rotation, is a rotation was created at John Hopkins. The course aims to bring this experience to 麻豆官网首页入口 at the Medical College of Georgia, and unique to the AU MCG apprenticeship, is the ability of the apprenticeship students to work alongside residents on a common educational project linking educational goals of UME and GME.

Osler Apprentices (OAs) in neurology, is an opportunity for senior medical students with an interest in academic medicine education to gain experience and exposure to the technical, administrative, and educational skills central to pursuing a clinician educator academic pathway. Neurology is an often very intimidating specialty for learners. Responsibilities include assisting with expanding medical education materials for neurology for learners of all levels, building educational content that engages both the UME and GME aspects of medical education, and potentially building research project in medical education.

Medical students are often engaged in medical education from the vantage point of the "learner," occasionally as the "educator" during their subI rotation.
The OSLER Apprenticeship in Neurology, aims to allow medical students to become fully immersed in education as they create projects designed to foster learning in their peers.
As a part of the practicum, the medical student will create a project, which may target many different audiences: medical students, non-neurology faculty, neurology residents, as well as off-service resident rotators from other services who engage in neurology (anesthesia, family medicine, psychiatry, emergency medicine).

Neuromuscular Disease

NEUR 5020

Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks

Course Description: The primary purpose of this elective is to teach the student about neuromuscular disease including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP), and various Myopathies. The student will learn the proper techniques to examine and diagnose patients with neuromuscular diseases and how to treat them. They will also learn how to work in a multi-disciplinary clinic.

EMG Elective

NEUR 5022

Category: Clinical
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Length: 4 weeks

Course Description: This elective is designed to train the student on the basics of EMG, nerve conductions and nerve ultra-sonology and how they are used to make neuromuscular diagnoses. The student will also gain some exposure to the treatment of various neurological conditions with botulinum toxin.