Senior residents are provided the opportunity for extensive exposure to neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuropharmacology. During the third year, residents serve as teaching assistants in Medical Neurobiology 305. This is a spring quarter course with more than 113 hours exposure time and 12-17 laboratories. 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.