Conferences/Didactics:
The Cleveland Clinic neurology residency program offers an extensive schedule of didactic and continuing medical education lecture series and conferences for trainees and staff including:
Daily (M-F) Noon Conference Series With Topics Including:
- Cerebrovascular/Stroke
- Cognitive/Behavioral/Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Evidence and Action (critical review of evidence-based medicine)
- Headache
- Movement Disorders
- Neuro/Bioethics
- Neuroanatomy
- Neurocritical Care
- Neuroemergencies
- Neurogenetics
- NeuroID
- Neuroimmunology, Rheumatology and MS
- Neuromuscular
- Neurooncology
- Neuroophthalmology
- Neurootology
- Neuropathology
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroradiology
- Neurosurgery
- Palliative Medicine
- Pediatric Neurology
- PM+R
- Professional development (personal and medical finance, private vs. academic practice, fellowship application process, legal/contracts, etc.)
- Psychiatry
- Research/Stats/Epidemiology (updates with on-going research, statistics, starting research, conducting research, etc.)
- Sleep
- Spine/Spinal Cord
Daily Neuroradiology Rounds (with staff neuroradiologist)
Weekly Conferences Include:
- Cerebrovascular / Stroke Conference
- Epilepsy Grand Rounds
- Epilepsy Patient Management Conference
- Live Patient examination and teaching
- Neurology book chapter review
- Neurology Grand Rounds
- Neuroscience Grand Rounds
- Pediatric Neurology Grand Rounds
- Pediatric Neurology Neuroimaging Conference
Monthly Conferences Include:
- Adult neurology journal club at local restaurants
- Pediatric neurology journal club at local restaurants
- Brain cutting/pathology sessions
- Monthly/bimonthly- RITE/neurology board review
Others:
- Adult & Child Neurology Journal Clubs
- Brain cutting/pathology sessions
- Quarterly Resident Meeting with Dr. Toby Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic CEO
- Quarterly Neurological Institute Core Conference Series
- Neurology morbidity and mortality rounds
- Monthly meeting with Program Director, Department Chairman and residents
Visiting Professor:
Annually, a visiting professor is selected to serve as the Guy Williams lecturer. This individual, a neurologist of international stature, gives a keynote speech and participates in educational activities with the residents.
Away Conferences:
In addition to the above conferences, residents are encouraged to attend and present at national meetings. A generous travel policy by the Neurological Institute supports and promotes these functions.