Teaching Conferences
Teaching conferences series are designed to cover the breadth of neurology, complement bedside teaching, and mature clinical practice. Residents will be required to attend morning report and noon conference daily and grand rounds weekly.
Lectures will be given by departmental faculty and faculty from other departments. Residents will also be required to give lectures, case presentations and journal club throughout the academic year. Junior faculty and residents will present up-to-date advances in neuroscience under the mentorship of selected faculty. PGY 4 residents will be required to give a grand rounds presentation during their senior year of training.
Morning Report is required and occurs at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays and will be attended by a faculty member. Residents will present new neurology cases for discussion and teaching.
Resident Lecture Series occurs on Monday-Thursday at noon and covers a large variety of topics relevant to basic sciences of neurology and clinical neurology that fulfill American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requirements. These topics include neuroanatomy, pathology, genetics, pharmacology, and clinical subspecialties: neurology emergencies, cerebrovascular disease, headache and pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, neuroimmunology, trauma, neuro-oncology, and behavioral, cognitive neurology. Subspeciality case conferences include neuropathology case conferences, neuroradiology case conferences, EEG/Epilepsy/IOM case conferences, EMG/NM case conference and sleep medicine case conferences. Residents will also present journal clubs and morbidity and mortality cases under supervision of faculty members.
Professor's Rounds occur on Wednesday from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. and provides an invaluable opportunity for residents and students to receive hands-on training in the evaluation and examination of the neurology patient. During these rounds, a patient volunteers to be interviewed and examined by a chosen resident. The resident, along with other attendees, must then discuss the site(s) of the lesion, differential diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and relevant molecular biology.
Neurology Grand Rounds occur at noon on Fridays at the Houston Methodist Hospital and Pediatric Grand Rounds occur at 8:00 a.m. every Fridays at The Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. Residents are required to attend all HMH Grand Rounds and Pediatric Neurology Grand Rounds unless rotating on neuro-oncology at MDACC. Each PGY 4 resident provides a Houston Methodist grand rounds presentation on their topic of choice. Each resident is expected to present a Pediatric Grand Rounds Case Presentation once before completion of three pediatric neurology block rotations.
Mandatory MDACC required didactics include Morning Report on Tuesday mornings and the MDACC Friday Lecture Series. Residents are only required to attend these didactics when rotating on Neuro-oncology.
Resident Basic Science Lectures PGY 3 neurology residents are expected to present advances in neurology/neuroscience under the guidance of a mentor who specializes in the field of research and/or care. The lectures occur throughout the year on Fridays (noon) and are presented to the department and open to the other clinicians and scientists in the medical center.
These lectures provide a superb opportunity for the resident to delve into the pathophysiology of disease as well as understand the direction of current research and the advances in the care, diagnosis, and treatment of neurology diseases. It also provides an unparalleled experience in the critical analysis and critique of research studies and in communication skills, all under the mentorship of experts that are renowned in their field.
Lectures will be given by departmental faculty and faculty from other departments. Residents will also be required to give lectures, case presentations and journal club throughout the academic year. Junior faculty and residents will present up-to-date advances in neuroscience under the mentorship of selected faculty. PGY 4 residents will be required to give a grand rounds presentation during their senior year of training.
Morning Report is required and occurs at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays and will be attended by a faculty member. Residents will present new neurology cases for discussion and teaching.
Resident Lecture Series occurs on Monday-Thursday at noon and covers a large variety of topics relevant to basic sciences of neurology and clinical neurology that fulfill American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requirements. These topics include neuroanatomy, pathology, genetics, pharmacology, and clinical subspecialties: neurology emergencies, cerebrovascular disease, headache and pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, neuroimmunology, trauma, neuro-oncology, and behavioral, cognitive neurology. Subspeciality case conferences include neuropathology case conferences, neuroradiology case conferences, EEG/Epilepsy/IOM case conferences, EMG/NM case conference and sleep medicine case conferences. Residents will also present journal clubs and morbidity and mortality cases under supervision of faculty members.
Professor's Rounds occur on Wednesday from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. and provides an invaluable opportunity for residents and students to receive hands-on training in the evaluation and examination of the neurology patient. During these rounds, a patient volunteers to be interviewed and examined by a chosen resident. The resident, along with other attendees, must then discuss the site(s) of the lesion, differential diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and relevant molecular biology.
Neurology Grand Rounds occur at noon on Fridays at the Houston Methodist Hospital and Pediatric Grand Rounds occur at 8:00 a.m. every Fridays at The Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. Residents are required to attend all HMH Grand Rounds and Pediatric Neurology Grand Rounds unless rotating on neuro-oncology at MDACC. Each PGY 4 resident provides a Houston Methodist grand rounds presentation on their topic of choice. Each resident is expected to present a Pediatric Grand Rounds Case Presentation once before completion of three pediatric neurology block rotations.
Mandatory MDACC required didactics include Morning Report on Tuesday mornings and the MDACC Friday Lecture Series. Residents are only required to attend these didactics when rotating on Neuro-oncology.
Resident Basic Science Lectures PGY 3 neurology residents are expected to present advances in neurology/neuroscience under the guidance of a mentor who specializes in the field of research and/or care. The lectures occur throughout the year on Fridays (noon) and are presented to the department and open to the other clinicians and scientists in the medical center.
These lectures provide a superb opportunity for the resident to delve into the pathophysiology of disease as well as understand the direction of current research and the advances in the care, diagnosis, and treatment of neurology diseases. It also provides an unparalleled experience in the critical analysis and critique of research studies and in communication skills, all under the mentorship of experts that are renowned in their field.