Nearly 4,000 electroneurodiagnostic procedures are performed annually, and EMGs number over 2,000. The resident is exposed to a full range of techniques, including elicitation of evoked potentials, EEG determination of cerebral death, monitoring of convulsive disorders, and polysomnography. Neuropathology training is encompassed in three months in the Department of Pathology. Current material, including muscle biopsies, is studied, and assignments are made to different disease entities. Ultrastructure is also considered.
Investigative collaboration is encouraged.
The pediatric neurology rotation provides both inpatient and outpatient experience under the direction of four faculty members who hold appointments in Pediatrics and Neurology. Their research specialties include infectious diseases of the CNS, hydrocephalus, neurovirology, neuromuscular disease and molecular genetics. The psychiatric rotation takes place in the Department of Psychiatry, which is located in the new John Pappajohn Pavilion. One month is spent attending patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. Appropriate conferences are included, with emphasis on the organic basis of psychoses, with particular attention to neurochemical underpinnings, and on the epidemiology of mental disorders.