The University of Rochester Department of Neurology is nationally recognized for its innovative medical student curriculum in the neural sciences and in clinical neurology. Neurology residents participate extensively in medical student teaching in both the pre-clinical and clinical strands of the curriculum.
Residents also receive training in teaching and evaluating students.
The University of Rochester Medical School has implemented a new problem-based curriculum in August, 1999. All neurology PGY-4's serve as laboratory and small group instructors in this new course and attend all lectures and laboratory sessions. Their participation in this course augments their basic neuroscience knowledge as well as their teaching skills. All neurology residents are responsible for teaching the fundamentals of neurology to medical students, neurosurgery residents, psychiatry residents, and internal medicine residents rotating on the various neurology inpatient and outpatient services. The fundamentals that are taught include the neurological examination, the diagnostic approach to neurological problems, and the care of neurological illnesses.