The Neurology and Rehabilitation Service at the VAMC provides residents with exposure to patients with a broad array of neurological and neurosurgical disorders. With the recent expansion of our services, to include the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, the San Francisco VAMC now offers tertiary-level neurological care for patients with epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and other movement disorders, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, neurovascular disease, and neurogenetic disorders. There are approximately 200 inpatient admissions and 300 consultations. There are 3 clinics per week and roughly 3000 clinic visits per year. Call is every other night from home.
Every resident has continuity clinics at each hospital once a month.
There are also 2-3 months of outpatient clinics that are mostly subspecialty clinics and some general neurology. The subspecialty clinics include spine, neuromuscular, neurovascular, movement disorders, dementia, pain, rehab, sleep, MS, and epilepsy. Residents also rotate for three months on the Child Neurology service in the R2 or R3 year. Residents work with the Child Neurology fellows and attendings. There are opportunities to go to subspecialty clinics like genetics, metabolic, and muscular dystrophy clinics.