Residents are expected to attend all academic conferences geared to their level of training. Acceptable reasons for not attending conferences include urgent patient care needs, vacation or away rotations, and fulfillment of the work hour limit requirements. Attendance is kept at all conferences and will be reviewed in quarterly meetings with the program leadership.
Required conferences include:
- Noon-time resident conference series (Monday through Friday) covering the core neurology material.
- Noon report (weekly, Thursdays at 12:00pm)
- Chief of Service (weekly, Wednesdays at 11:00am)
- Morbidity and Mortality (monthly)
- Journal club (monthly)
- Health Disparities (monthly)
- Grand rounds (weekly)
Optional conferences:
- Neuroradiology (weekly)
- Neuromuscular rounds (weekly)
- Brain cutting (weekly)
- Epilepsy case conference (weekly)
- Stroke case conference (weekly)
- Behavior Rounds (monthly)
The Chairman Weekly Newsletter has a calendar of all monthly conferences for resident reference.
Updated 6/19/2024