Overview
The primary aim of the Neurology Residency program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is to train individuals to be thoroughly competent in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease. The medical center is sufficiently staffed in all the basic and clinical subdivisions of the neurologic sciences to ensure a broad base for neurologic teaching:
Neuroanatomy - Neuropathology
- Neuropharmacology
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroradiology
- General Clinical Neurology
- Pediatric Neurology
- Epilepsy
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Sleep Disorders
- Stroke
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Headache
- Movement Disorders
- Neurosurgery
- Pain Medicine
Each year, three residents enter the three-year program. In addition, the program offers Epilepsy, Headache, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Multiple Sclerosis fellowships of one-year duration.
Wherever possible, neurology house officers are placed in teaching roles, relating to both medical students and residents in other specialties. Third-year Neurology residents receive academic appointments at the Instructor level at Dartmouth Medical School. The objectives of this approach are to instill the motivation for intensive learning that successful teaching demands, and secondarily, to provide the resident an opportunity to experience the teaching aspects of academic medicine before making career choices.
Interested residents are encouraged to participate with neurology faculty members in clinical research. In addition, opportunities are available for basic research in epileptology, neurohistology, microbiology, neuropathology, neuropsychology, neuroendocrinology, neuropharmacology, genetics, and neuroimmunology.
