The Neurology Service admits its patients to a separate inpatient unit. A comprehensive Epilepsy Service oversees a 6-bed monitoring unit, and provides medical and surgical epilepsy treatment. The Neurology Outpatient Clinic handles approximately 7000 patient visits a year in its general neurology and subspecialty clinics. Neurodiagnostic facilities provide a full range of services such as electroencephalography, electromyography, evoked potentials, intraoperative monitoring, transcranial doppler studies, polysomnography, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It offers care to children with acute and chronic diseases.
Neurology provides both inpatient care, consultative service as well as outpatient care.
Neurology maintains an active outpatient clinic, an inpatient service and a consultation service. It also provides clinical neurophysiology and neuropathology services. The educational program is conducted by Stanford faculty and is fully integrated into the teaching program. The rotation, which comprises a busy inpatient consultation service and an active outpatient clinic, provides residents with exposure to a very wide range of acute and chronic neurologic disorders that complements the educational experience at the university and VA hospitals. Ancillary services such as neuroradiology, neuropathology, and clinical neurophysiology are all well represented.