The McGill University Neurology and Neurosurgery Residency Programs have the specific goals of training both clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons and academic clinician-scientists.
Residents rotate to each hospital in the course of their training.
The 5-year adult neurology training program is comprised of 1 year of internal medicine and 4 years of neurology. The core training includes a total of 18 months of clinical rotations on the teaching units of the participating hospitals, including 3 months of child neurology. Nine months of electives are interspersed throughout the 4 years of neurology, and the last 6 months of neurology consist of dedicated out-patient clinic rotations in general and subspecialty neurology. A unique feature of the program is a mandatory 6-month basic neuroscience laboratory rotation, designed to give residents first hand exposure to techniques and ideas in contemporary neuroscience. There is an active teaching program in each of the participating hospitals.