Pediatric Neurology

Goals-The faculty will strive to:

• Include the student in all aspects of the practice of Child Neurology
• Demonstrate accurate history and physical assessment skills as pertains to neurological problems in children
• Provide daily brief discussions on a clinical neurology topic
• Make learning resources readily available to the student
• Role model problem solving approaches to neurologic complaints in children

Objectives-At the end of the rotation, the student will be able to:

• Obtain an accurate and complete developmental and neurologic history
• Perform complete neurologic exam in infants, children, adolescents
• Understand appropriate evaluation and treatment of childhood epilepsy
• Have familiarity with common neurologic problems in childhood (headaches, developmental delay, school problems, tics)
• Know indications for neurologic testing and limitations - EEG, CT, MRI, NCV, EMG, muscle biopsy, LP

Learning Activities:

• Attendance and participation in daily general child neurology clinics
• Attendance at multidisciplinary clinics - spina bifida, cerebral palsy
• Accompany attendings on inpatient rounds - floors, PICU, NICU; observation of EEG, NCV, EMG
• Attendance at morning report, noon conferences and Grand Rounds provided by the Pediatrics Department
• Independent reading, video viewing, lecture searches of clinical problems encountered during rotation

Learning Resources:

• Selected recent review articles (8)
• Handbook of Child Neurology
• Clinical Child Neurology (Fenechel)
• Textbook of Child Neurology (Menkes)
• Video series of childhood seizures

Evaluation:

• Direct observation/monitoring of participation and clinical performance
• Clinical evaluation form
• Student evaluation of rotation