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.  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.

Ethical, Legal, and Social Matters Affecting the Clinical Practice of Neurology Seminar

2nd or 3rd Wednesday, 3:30-5:00

Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Conference Room, Barringer 5382

Faculty: Donna Chen MD MPH and Lois Shepherd JD

Members of the Biomedical Ethics faculty will explore ethical, legal and social matters related to the clinical practice of neurology, and indeed, all of medicine, through a facilitated discussion of clinical case presentations as well as a general discussion of student experiences. Case presentations will include aspects of brain death and disorders of consciousness in adults.  To prepare, students should have read the articles listed below.

After working through the presented cases, we will turn to a discussion of students' experiences.  To prepare, please spend some time thinking about your experiences to date and bring questions, comments, concerns about clinical situations, interactions with patients and their families, professional roles and responsibilities as medical students, etc.

Readings:

  • Wijdicks EFM. Determining brain death in adults. Neurology 1995;45:1003-1011.
  • Wijdicks EFM et al. Practice parameters: Prediction of outcome in comatose survivors after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2006;67:203-210.
  • Fins JJ. Rethinking disorders of consciousness: New research and its implications. Hastings Center Report 2005;35:22-24.
  • Laureys S. Science and society: death, unconsciousness and the brain. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Nov;6(11):899-909.