Clinical Pediatric Neurology

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Course Leader: 
David E. Mandelbaum, MD, PhD

Course Location:           Hasbro Children's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital

When Offered:      All year

Contact Information:
Physicians Office Building
Suite 342
110 Lockwood Street
Providence, RI 02903
401-444-4345

 

Faculty: David E. Mandelbaum, MD, PhD
             Karameh Hawash, MD
             (John Gaitanis, MD as of 12/1/03)

 

Maximum Students per Rotation:    1

Duration of Rotation:         4 weeks

Type of Rotation:     Outpatient & Inpatient Consultation Service, Inpatient Admission Service

 

Cognitive Content:   The elective will provide experience in the neurological problems of infancy, childhood and adolescence.  Learn how to take a thorough pediatric neurology history and perform the neurological examination appropriate for neonates, infants, children and adolescents.  Students will be exposed to acute inpatient problems at Hasbro Children's Hospital Emergency Room, PICU and wards and the Neonatal ICU at Women and Infant's Hospital.  The office and clinic settings will provide exposure to some of the more common problems in child neurology including epilepsy, headache, developmental delay, and neurocutaneous disorders as well as the less common neurodegenerative disorders. 

Conferences include: neurology grand rounds, pediatrics grand rounds, morning report, brain tumor conference, epilepsy conference, neuroradiology conference and neuropathology conference.

 

Prerequisites: Clerkship in Pediatrics recommended

 

Criteria for Passing:  Students will be evaluated based on their performance in the inpatient and outpatient clinical settings by the supervising attending neurologist and supervising resident.

 

Criteria for Honors:  Honors grade will require independent pursuit of additional reference material pertinent to a clinical problem encountered and demonstration of mastery of that material. 

 

Competencies:         Ability II: advanced level

 

Number of Hrs/Wk of Classroom/Discussion:       8-10

 

Planned Independent Projects for Students: Available upon request of the Child Neurology faculty

 

Description:   Supervised evaluation and management of pediatric neurology inpatient primary and consultation patients, and of outpatients, through daily ward rounds, weekly Pediatric Neurology

Morning Report (clinical teaching conference), and presentations in outpatient clinics.


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