We offer many elective courses during the senior year to best serve each student’s individual needs and goals. Students with well-defined career goals and those who are still in the process of choosing a specific area to focus on have a wide assortment of electives to choose from. Most courses are two or four weeks in duration.
Students are also encouraged to approach faculty members for the development of unique courses.
| Department: | Neurology |
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| Course Number: | NEU-4004 |
| Course Name: | Neurology Outpatient |
| Instructors: | Dr. Matthew Murnane |
| Course Description: | Prerequisite: Successful completion of 3rd year. AMC students must have successfully completed the 4th year required clerkship in Neurology. Visiting students may take this as allowed by their own institution's policy and subject to availability and course director approval. Course Description: To familiarize students with the spectrum of patient care challenges that arise in an outpatient setting. This is accomplished in both general and subspecialty clinics, including movement disorders, epilepsy, and dementia. |
| Educational Objectives: | The student will demonstrate the ability to: 1. Learn to translate your understanding of the medical significance of symptoms, signs, test results, diagnoses, and management plans into language that patients and families can understand. 2. Learn to elicit key aspects of the history and exam that enable initial management to proceed in the timely fashion required in an outpatient practice. 3. Learn the common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options for management of common and treatable neurologic outpatient disorders (e.g.-epilepsy, spine pain, headache). 4. Communicate test results and their significance to patients, and discuss test results of uncertain significance with attending staff. 5. Learn to develop a neuroanatomic localization of patient-specific symptoms and signs, and an initial differential diagnosis to discuss with the supervising outpatient attending. |
| Types of Patients: | Adult and pediatric patients with neurologic disease/disorders, including seizures, neuromuscular disease, headaches, chronic pain, disorders of cognition, vascular disease, demyelinating disease. |
| Teaching Sessions /Conferences: | Grand Rounds, Thursdays 8:30-9:30 |
| Resources /Readings: | Weiner & Goetz; Neurology for the Non-Neurologist - 3rd edition Adams & Victor; Principles of Neurology (accompanying handbook also acceptable) Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine Weiner & Levitt; Neurology for the House Officer Aids to the Examination of Peripheral Nerve Injuries (Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office) |
| Evaluation Method(s): | Direct Observation, Written Assignment, Patient Write-Ups, Mid-Rotation Feedback |
| Contact Information: | Course Director: Dr. Matthew Murnane, [email protected], (518)262-5226 Course Coordinator: Marcia Lamb, [email protected], (518) 262-6488 |
| Period(s) Available: | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 |
| Available Length: | 2 weeks 4 weeks |
| Max Students: | 1 |
| Visiting Students: | Yes |