A patient with an unusual neuromuscular disorder is usually presented at each of these conferences. Journal Club Journal Club occurs monthly on the fourth Tuesday of each month at noon. One or two journal articles are selected by the chief resident for review at this conference, and are discussed by all of the neurology residents and selected faculty members. An evidence-based medicine approach is used to discuss each journal article. This conference series has been designed to supplement residency education in areas of neuroscience.
Meetings occur every other week throughout the academic year.
Residents co-present material with the designated faculty member. The curriculum is covered in a three-year period. During the first two years of the curriculum, the conference series reviews Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell's Principles of Neural Science . The third year curriculum consists of blocks covering neuropathology, neuropharmacology, and selected topics from molecular biology texts. Case studies emphasizing epidemiology and statistics are also presented.