There are also weekly research conferences in Neurology, Neurobiology, and Immunology. Residents also attend Neurology Morning Report, which is held every weekday morning except Friday, when there is a formal brain cutting session. A basic Neuroscience course is offered in the Fall and Winter months. Residents see and follow their own patients over a 3-year period. During each session of the clinic, there are faculty and resident staff seeing patients.
Residents discuss all their patients with one of the attendings.
Special clinics include the ALS clinic and postpolio clinic, the MS clinic, the myasthenia gravis clinic, the epilepsy clinic, the headache clinic and the muscular dystrophy clinic. There is also an active sleep clinic and a fully equipped sleep study laboratory. All consults are seen by a resident and reviewed with an attending physician. Most residents and fellows pursue careers in academic medicine while some go into private practice. There are also several Ph.D. faculty and research associates.