Teaching Program

Morning report is held daily with the department chair and chief of service. These meetings serve to review all new patients and any difficult patients on the inpatient (ward or consult) services. The general neurology and stroke service attendings provide daily supervision, and formal ward teaching rounds are held Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Professor's rounds are held weekly by the department chair, and neuroscience grand rounds also occur weekly.

A monthly journal club is held in which the residents play an active and key role. Neuroradiology conferences are held weekly, and focus on head and spine CT and MRI abnormalities. Weekly neuropathology conferences include brain cutting, which permits discussion of normal and abnormal neuroanatomy, and clinical neuropathological correlations. Also, neuropathological changes which occur are discussed in detail, including the presentation of microscopic neuropathology.

Clinical neuroscience seminars are held monthly, and are part of a three-year program in fundamental neurosciences related to clinical neurology. The department maintains its own library which contains the major clinical neurology textbooks and monographs, and receives approximately 10 specialized journals from the United States and abroad. The Dana Medical Library of the University of Vermont contains all major neurology/neuroscience texts and journals, and has extensive literary search capabilities.

Neurology residents also have two IBM-compatible computers and printers available on the hospital neuroscience floor, in the Neurology chief resident's office, in the on-call room, and in the ambulatory setting for library and reference searches. Computers are also available for developing clinical presentations and manuscripts.