Instructor(s): Megan Richie, Alexandra Brown

Students are assigned patients for study under the supervision of attending and resident staffs. They attend work rounds, attending rounds, clinic, grand rounds, conferences and lecture-seminars, emphasizing diagnosis and management of core clinical problems in neurology. This course is taught in conjunction with the 4-week Psychiatry 110 clerkship, resulting in an 8-week long continuity clinic and a combined psychiatry and neurology conference.

Instructor(s): David Perry

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will explore the clinical evaluation and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Instruction on dementia subtypes, brain-behavior relationships, cognitive assessment, psychopharmacology and neuropathology will be offered.

Instructor(s): Megan Richie

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will rotate in the neuromuscular, movement disorders, and neuroinflammatory/multiple sclerosis subspecialty clinics under the supervision of a limited number of teaching neurology attendings.

Instructor(s): Audrey Foster-Barber

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will work directly with 2-3 core general child neurologists, including attending conferences, reviewing results, meeting with care teams, and seeing patients.

Instructor(s): Audrey Foster-Barber

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will work with the resident and faculty on the main inpatient consult service for child neurology. Students will participate in patient care in the ICU, ward consults, and in the Emergency Room settings.

Instructor(s): Audrey Foster-Barber

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend one week each on subspecialty inpatient teams: Pediatric Epilepsy and Pediatric Neonatal Care. Students will participate in consults and family conferences.

Instructor(s): Vanja Douglas

Students will spend 4 weeks as acting interns on the neurohospitalist service at UCSF Health. Two weeks is spent on the consult service and two weeks on the primary ward service. The neurohospitalist service is a tertiary care referral service that serves the Bay Area, Northern and Central California. There will be exposure to a wide variety of neurologically affected patients in and out of the intensive care unit. Attendance at departmental clinical rounds, seminars and conferences is required.

Instructor(s): Megan Richie

Clinical clerkship in approved hospitals by special arrangement and approval of the dean and the chairperson of the department.

Instructor(s): Megan Richie

Clinical clerkship in approved hospitals by special arrangement and approval of the dean and the chairperson of the department.

Instructor(s): Audrey Foster-Barber

Participation in child neurology activities, both inpatient and outpatient, and all regularly scheduled conferences of the Child Neurology Division. Study of the developing nervous system and diseases of the nervous system affecting infants, children and adolescents.

Instructor(s): Douglas Pet, Vanja Douglas

Students will spend a total of 4 weeks at SFGH, San Francisco’s only trauma center, where they will develop advanced neurological skills in the care of emergent neurological patients through triage, evaluation, and neurocritical care management. Students spend two weeks on the neurology consultation service under the supervision of the consultation resident and attending neurologist. The other two weeks are spent caring for patients in the neurocritical care unit with the neuro-ICU team.

Instructor(s): Nerissa Ko, Wade Smith

This advanced clerkship concentrates on the fundamentals of critical care with an emphasis placed on neurological illness. Essential skills and concepts related to the management of critically-ill neurological/neurosurgical patients will be introduced during lectures, conferences, daily rounds and night-calls.

Instructor(s): David Perry, Bruce Miller, Howie Rosen, Katherine Rankin, Mary De May, Michael Geschwind, Bill Seeley

The Neurobehavioral rotation will explore brain-behavior relationships in neurodegenerative disorders. Instruction on dementia subtypes, cognitive assessment, psychopharmacology, and neuropathology will be offered. To apply this knowledge, students will participate in multi-disciplinary clinics, during which they will observe and perform neurobehavioral histories and examinations. Clinicians will provide feedback and guidance, supplementing differential diagnoses and plans for intervention.

Instructor(s): Megan Richie

Students spend two weeks rotating through a variety of outpatient neurologic subspecialties. This course serves to provide outpatient neurology exposure but does not substitute for a neurology sub-internship for those applying in neurology.

Instructor(s): Loren Alving

This is a 2- or 4-week elective at the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer & Memory Center for 4th-year medical students. Students will spend time seeing patients at the Alzheimer Center and will participate in our multidisciplinary team meetings. Other experiences may include a home visit, elder abuse conference involving local social workers and law enforcement. A short project is required during rotation.

Instructor(s): David Perry

The Remote Neurobehavioral rotation explores brain-behavior relationships in neurodegenerative disorders. Students will participate in a didactic series that includes instruction on dementia subtypes, cognitive assessment, evaluation and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. To apply this knowledge, students will remotely participate in multiple-disciplinary clinics, during which they will observe and perform neurobehavioral histories and examinations. This course is for visiting students.

Instructor(s): Liza Ashbrook

Sleep medicine is an interdisciplinary field bringing together medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, ENT, and OMFS. Students will have the opportunity to see a range of patients and learn about evaluation and treatment of sleep complaints. Regardless of which field of medicine students pursue, sleep impacts all patients. Poor sleep has a huge range of negative health outcomes. Students will learn to understand sleep disorders so they will not miss these critical treatment opportunities.

Instructor(s): Megan Richie

Opportunities for clinical or laboratory research under the guidance of department faculty.

Instructor(s): Sharon Wietstock

This elective will explore varying topics in Pediatric Neurology by inviting professionals to speak about their careers with the intention of teaching students about career paths in Pediatric Neurology, highlighting interesting work relevant to the field completed by members of the UCSF community and exposing students to the varying types of patients and conditions that they may encounter while working as a Pediatric Neurologist.

Instructor(s): Alexandra Nelson

This course is intended for medical students interested in Neuroscience-related subspecialties, including Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology, and Psychiatry. Through weekly lectures by different physicians and physician-scientists, it will provide an overview of clinical and research opportunities in each presented field. There will be emphasis on evaluation and treatment of patients, relevant research, training/residency, subspecialty fellowships, and career development.

Instructor(s): Staff

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.