Clinical Training

Clinical Training

Typical Schedule

C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital opened in 2011
12-story inpatient wing and a 9-story outpatient wing
1.1 million square feet
342 beds, with busy Pediatric, Neonatal, and Pediatric Cardiothoracic ICU’s, ED, and inpatient psychiatric unit
Every room in the hospital can support long-term EEG monitoring
Attached to the adult hospital, balancing function as an independent unit with easy access to Adult Neurology conferences and to Pediatric Neurology continuity clinics during the adult rotations
We’re on the top floor; great views!

We have 2 inpatient consult services: an ICU consult team and a floor/ED consult team; we see approximately 30 new consults per week between the 2 services
Our teams include residents, faculty with neurocritical care and neurohospitalist expertise, ICU nurse practitioners, and clerkship and elective students
We also have a Pediatric Epilepsy Service for scheduled EEG admissions with inpatient nurse practitioners; there are approximately 600 admissions per year
We have active General Pediatric Neurology outpatient clinics with about 9,500 patient visits yearly (2,100 new consultations and 7,400 return visits)
Members of our faculty also participate in a broad range of pediatric multi-disciplinary programs and clinics, including Neuro-oncology, Sleep Disorders, Neuromuscular Disease, Complex Epilepsy, Autism/Developmental Assessment, High Risk Neonatal Follow-Up, Neurocritical Care Follow-Up (with Neuropsychology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), Stroke, Movement Disorders, Fetal Neurology, and Neurocutaneous Disorders Specialty Clinics

Child Neurology continuity clinic begins during the PGY2 year and continues weekly throughout training
Begin Neurology training with a month-long Neurology Bootcamp elective just before starting the PGY3 year
Adult Neurology rotations include services that are meant to be the highest yield for the Child Neurology trainee: the Ward service, the Stroke service, the Consult service, the NICU (Neurology Intensive Care Unit), and Mixed Clinic
Child Neurology inpatient rotations include:
Residents can choose to rotate on our Pediatric Epilepsy service
Outpatient rotations include a New Patient clinic and opportunities to rotate through our multiple subspecialty clinics
Additional rotations include EEG (6 weeks), Neuromuscular (4 weeks), Neuropathology (4 weeks), Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (2 weeks), and Psychiatry (4 weeks)