Welcome!
The Department of Neurology at Beth Israel has a long established history as a training site for both medical students and neurology residents from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in addition to training movement disorder fellows. In 2006, our department established an independent residency program with a mission to provide our residents with a strong foundation in neurology and its sub-specialties as well as to teach skills to foster lifetime learning.
Our Neurology program consists of nine residents, three in each individual year. Because of our small size, our faculty has an intimate relationship with our residents. Residents are assigned mentors and are also provided with fellowship and job counseling throughout all three years. In addition, all residents choose research mentors to help them develop and initiate independent research projects with a goal of presentation at a scientific meeting and publication.
Our faculty has trained at outstanding Neurology residency and fellowship programs and many are internationally and nationally renowned in their respective subspecialties. This background has produced a departmental commitment to clinical research. We hope to impart this passion on our trainees by offering multiple opportunities to participate in original research and to attend local and national meetings.
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Program Overview
Residents spend the most of their rotations at Beth Israel and Phillips Ambulatory Center in the East Village. Roosevelt Hospital is our other training facility and is available for electives in Neuroradiology, Interventional Radiology, Endovascular Neurology, and Headache. Some features of the program include:
- Certified NIH stroke center
- Stroke and epilepsy monitoring units
- Extensive outpatient exposure including full time outpatient rotations, weekly general neurology continuity clinic, and specialized clinics in ALS, Epilepsy, Neuro-opthalmology and Movement Disorders
- Research rotation with mentorship
- Paid AAN membership and RITE exam testing
- Paid attendance to the Columbia Basic Neuroscience Course, Armed Forces Institute Pathology course as well as many local and national meetings
The Neurology Residency program offers a well-rounded curriculum, emphasizing patient care in both inpatient and outpatient settings, teaching and research opportunities, and self-learning activities.
Inpatient Experience
On the inpatient service, first-year residents are exposed to a large, demographically diverse patient population, and participate in the care of a broad range of neurological conditions such as epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, movement and neuromuscular disorders. Residents participate in the care of all admissions on the neurology floor. In later years, residents participate in "chief" months during which the assist the attending in running the inpatient service.
Complementing the neurology inpatient service is the neurology consult team. The consult service exposes residents to an even wider patient variety, with consultation requests coming from the emergency room, medical and surgical intensive care units, as well as other inpatient services. Residents in each training year display increased sophistication and independence while on the service. This is achieved through regular practice of the skills learned on the inpatient floor and teaching from the supervising attending and senior neurology consult resident.
Outpatient Experience
The overall goal of the residents' outpatient training is to learn the discipline required in running a successful neurological practice as well as to provide exposure to the subspecialties in preparation for fellowship training. Central to the resident's outpatient experience is the continuity clinic, located in Beth Israel's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (PACC). PACC houses state-of-the-art medical facilities as well as the majority of the Medical Center's outpatient offices. Each resident spends one half day a week in continuity clinic. Every effort is made to provide continuity of care.
Residents have several outpatient clinic rotations where they participate in a variety of subspecialty clinics as well as physicians' private office sessions. In addition, residents can elect to have additional time in several subspecialties in their PGY3 and PGY4 years.
Teaching and Research Opportunities
The teaching environment is a top priority of our program. It is extremely important to us that our residents have ample teaching opportunities in a warm and collegiate environment. Residents teach the house staff in internal medicine and psychiatry who rotate through the department, medical students, and one another (particularly their junior peers). Educational time extends from work rounds into resident conferences. Conference time takes precedence over work responsibilities.
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Academic Schedule
