Lectures and Conferences

 

Student Conferences

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00 - 8:30 am, 4th Floor Camp Heart Auditorium Conference Room.
    •  Neurology faculty will present clinically-relevant topics in Neurology.   
  • Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Rm. 6410 (6th floor University Hospital).
    • Senior neurology residents review films, neuroanatomy, and clinical correlations.
  • Attendance is mandatory for all students assigned to services at UVA.  If you are on an inpatient service you will need to see your patients before the 8:00 am conference. 

Please arrive promptly. Attendance will be recorded at start of each session.

 

Neurology Grand Rounds

  • Fridays at 12:05 - 1:00 pm, Camp Heart Auditorium 
  • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd weeks.  Attendance recommended, not required.

 

Problem Set Review Sessions

  • Fridays at 2:30 - 4:00pm, 1st, 2nd and 3rd weeks, Ohrstrom Library in McKim Hall. 
  • Enclosed in the Neurology Clerkship Packet is a book with 9 clinical problem sets.
  • Each problem has a series of questions.  You are expected prepare for these sessions by reading the cases and whatever resources are required to answer these questions, in advance.  You may use any resources you like (e.g. books, journals, residents, attendings, fellow students).
  • Reviewing these problems, reading and thinking about them, and writing responses to the questions are key learning activities in this clerkship.  Knowing answers to the questions is less important than knowing why they are the answers.
  • Each Friday afternoon, you will meet with a neurology attending to discuss three problem set cases.  On week #1, problem sets #1, #2, and #3 will be reviewed.  On week #2, problems sets #4, #5, and #6 will be reviewed.  On week #3, problem sets #7, #8, and #9 will be reviewed.  The problem sets end up addressing all 10 items of the clerkship's minimal list of patient complaints and problems, and if you miss a session for an excused absence you remain responsible for that content.

Clinical Skills Sessions

  • Students will be assigned to one of three small groups. 
  • Each group will meet with Dr. Ivan Login (the associate clerkship director) or his designee for one 2 hour session. 
  • Students in the group should each choose an adult patient with signs on neuro exam signs that would be valuable and informative to explore in detail.  We will not work with pediatric patients. 
  • It is the student's responsibility to obtain - BEFORE THE MEETING - verbal approval from the patient or family to have a small group examine them as a teaching exercise. If there are insufficient patients on your service, coordinate access to other potential cases with the senior resident on the inpatient or adult consultation services.  Failure to obtain permission in advance may be construed as unprofessional behavior.
  • At the meeting, 2-4 patients will be selected to examine, depending on complexity.
  • Attendance is mandatory at your assigned session and contributes to the class participation element at the grading algorithm. 
  • Meetings will occur on the second, third and fourth Monday of each rotation at 2:30 pm at the resident lounge facing the elevators between 6C and 6E.

 

Homework

  • Homework activities may be assigned by the clerkship director.  This is in addition to other take-home responsibilities assigned by attendings and residents.
  • Homework topics may include case discussions, imaging review, Neurology in the Humanities submissions, etc.
  • Students may propose alternative homework assignments, subject to Clerkship director approval; creativity is encouraged.
  • Satisfactorily completed assignments may be posted in blog or Wiki formats available to clerkship students and other members of the University community.
  • Unsatisfactorily completed assignments will be returned to the student for remediation with comments on where they fail to meet requirements in the grading rubric.  Failure to submit remediation by the day of the Shelf Examination will result in loss of credit for the work.
  • The UVa Honor Code applies to assigned homework, and submissions should include the Honor Code attestation. Specific consideration of plagiarism as an Honor Code violation will be applied to homework assignments.