OVERALL APPROACH
The core philosophy of this clerkship is that people learn best when they actively participate in their own learning, not when things are spoon-fed to them. It is your job to learn while you are here, and take a responsible and professional approach to the experience.
We will teach you, spend time with you, encourage you, give you resources and experiences, and frame a structure and context within which your learning can grow. Ultimately, though, you are the single most important engine driving the type and amount of learning you get from this clerkship. We expect you to take that responsibility seriously and "go after" learning experiences.
We try to balance patient care assignments. Since we must use multiple services and sites, and the patient mix within a service can change unpredictably, clinical experiences may vary. No matter. Your job is to use whatever clinical experiences you happen to have as a starting point for learning. We supplement clinical experiences with conferences, exercises, and other activities that are relatively standardized across all students. In this way, we help each of you build the same explicit "skeleton" of core knowledge and skills in neurology. Beyond these issues, the purpose of your clinical activity is to put those tools into action, and in an individualized way put "meat" on that skeleton.