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. 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.
Residents pursue careers in academic medicine as well as private practice.
There are 17 adult neurology attending phsicians and 6 pediatric neurology attending physicians. There are also 2 PhD faculty and 10 research associates in the department. Supporting facilities include EEG, EMG, evoked potentials, a sleep lab, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, neuropathology, neuroimmunology laboratory, several MRI and CT scanners, and neuropsychiatric testiing. Lutheran General Hospital has 14 adult and 4 pediatric full-tiime faculty members on its neurology service. Relevant examination numbers and dates passed must be indicated on the application.