The average length of stay is approximately five days reflecting fairly rapid patient turnover. Children with neurologic diseases are admitted to the pediatric floor under the care of the pediatric neurologist and general pediatrics. Neurology residents rotating on Pediatric Neurology evaluate and follow these children through the pediatric neurology service. The hospital provides secondary care for the 130,000 residents of Chittenden county and tertiary care for around one million people who reside in Vermont and upstate New York. The Rehabilitation Unit is a new 40-bed facility with 20 neurological rehabilitation beds and outpatient multidisciplinary clinics.
Resident rotations provide both outpatient and inpatient experiences.
N eurology outpatient clinics are held at the University Health Center at the offices of the Department of Neurology. Both General Neurology and Specialty Clinics, including the Muscular Dystrophy Clinic, Neuromuscular Diseases Clinic, Movement Disorders Clinic, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, Seizure and Paroxysmal Disorders Clinic, Headache and Stroke Clinic are held each week. Approximately 12,000 patient visits occur per year. Residents rotate through these clinics throughout the three years of their residency, and receive a breadth of clinical experience in common and rare neurological disorders. The neurology program sponsors a fourth year of neurology training in clinical neurophysiology.