Residents are guaranteed an average of four days per month with no patient care responsibilities. One full month of vacation is provided during each year of residency. Vacation may be taken as a single block or split into two parts. The Department of Neurology maintains an active schedule of teaching conferences for residents. Morning Report is a brief resident-organized conference in which residents present cases of interest informally to their peers.
Faculty members attend on a rotating basis to act as a resource.
Neurology Grand Rounds is a weekly conference for the entire Department focusing on a clinical or basic topic. In Chairman's Rounds , Dr. Gilman meets with the residents to discuss patients in a case-oriented format. He teaches them to formulate their patients' problems by localizing the site of the disease, constructing a differential diagnosis, considering appropriate diagnostic tests, and proposing management. Neuroscience Conference includes a curriculum of formal presentations on the basic neuroscience disciplines. Neuroscience Conference is complemented by the weekly Clinical Neurology Conference , which has a curriculum based on clinical issues in neurology.