Teaching Program
The Department of Neurology and Neuroscience holds regularly scheduled teaching conferences at the NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Hospitals. The following are scheduled conferences and educational activities:
- Rounds are conducted daily at each hospital by senior neurologists.
- Morning report is held four days a week with the residents and clinical faculty to review all admissions to the ward, consultations, and emergency room evaluations over the preceding 24 hours. Residents are required to provide cogent histories and exam findings and to cite the scientific literature in defending their assessments and treatment plans.
- Weekly Professor's rounds are conducted by Dr. Beal at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Drs. DeAngelis and Posner alternate weekly at MSKCC Professor's Rounds.
- Grand Rounds are held weekly at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Cornell faculty and major national and international figure in neurology provide a varied program of clinical and basic science lectures in neurology and neuroscience. Residents are encouraged to present original research in Grand Rounds lectures.
- Weekly neuromuscular conference where a resident is selected to obtain a history and examine a live patient and discuss the localization, differential diagnosis and plan. This conferences provides training for the oral portion of the boards exam.
- Weekly neurophysiology conference reviews the basics of EEG, EMG and evoked potentials, and a clinical neurophysiologist reviews the interesting EEGs from the week.
- A weekly teaching conference organized by the chief resident features a variety of topics in neurology as well as board review preparation. A comprehensive 3-year curriculum of lectures assures each resident full exposure to all necessary topics.
- Bimonthly neuro-ophthalmology neuroradiology, pediatric neurology, neuropathology and neuroscience conferences round out the syllabus.
- A resident-directed and organized, interactive, journal club program enables the graduate staff to review the scientific basis of neurology and the latest publications in the literature.
The medical library maintains a large number of computers for literature searches and offers formal courses in information search and retrieval as well as informal instruction year-around. Residents have unrestricted access to the Library, which includes the 150,000 volume, 1,600 journal Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center. Residents may also use The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Library in The Nathan Cummings Center and The Rockefeller University Library. The Neurology Department's own library has a full complement of neurology texts and journals. Residents may access this library twenty-four hours seven days a week.
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