Objective: This elective preceptorship is offered with emphasis on outpatient diagnosis, investigation and treatment. The ambulatory setting is emphasized in both clinic and private offices. 
Learning Experience: Neurology, as most other specialty, is primarily an outpatient based field.  This rotation provides students exposure to neurology through the neurologists in the Division of clinical Neurology.  It is hoped that by the end of the rotation, the student will come away with an accurate perception of the practice of neurology – complimentary to the 3rd year in-hospital exposure.  The student will be guided mainly on a one-to-one basis by a preceptor, but will be exposed to a number of neurologists in the outpatient ambulatory setting. 
Feedback: Continuous throughout the elective. 
Evaluation: Will be based on a consensus of all faculty members involved in the student's education in this course. 
Faculty: Neurology staff.

Acute care in neurology has grown in importance with the development of new treatments for stroke, trauma, infections and neuromuscular diseases. 
Objective: The student will become an integral part of a team of resident and attending neurologists who specialize in treatment of these patients in the Neuro ICU.  Students will also participate in the management of critically ill neurosurgical patients. 
Learning Experience: Advanced monitoring and treatment techniques including Transcranial Doppler, SPECT, digital EEG, thrombolysis, hypothermia, and hypertensive-hypervolemic therapy will be emphasized.  Opportunity exists to learn technical skills related to critical care: central venous catheter placement, lumbar punctures, arterial catheter placement, intracranial pressure monitoring and ventilator management. In addition, students may spend time observing neurosurgical and interventional neuroradiologic procedures. 
Feedback: Continuous throughout the elective. 
Evaluation: Will be based on a consensus of all faculty members involved in the student's education in this course.

M-F 7:45am-6pm (no night –call, no weekend call)

Offered to students contemplating a career in the neurological sciences, this elective emphasizes the practice of neurology in a broad community setting. 
Objective: The student should recognize primary and secondary nervous system diseases, including paroxysmal disorders, vascular compromise, headache, coma, multiple sclerosis, trauma, tumors, infections, neuromuscular disorders and toxins. Correlating environmental factors and utilizing other professional services will be taught. 
Learning Experience: The student will evaluate ward consults, including Neuro ICU and Med/Surg ICU consults, present the patient to the service resident and attending, and follow the patient closely.  Roosevelt Hospital serves as a tertiary referral center for endovascular therapy of complex neurovascular cases. Regular attention to EEG, EMG, EP and neuroradiologic procedures is encouraged. Attendance at adult neurology clinics plus weekly neurology conference is expected. Attendance at weekly neurovascular conference and neurosurgical grand rounds is also encouraged. Rotations through the Stroke Service and the Headache Institute can be arranged if prior notice is given.
Feedback occurs regularly in a constructive manner to broaden the student's awareness of academic and professional resources. 
Evaluation is by the involved staff at the end of the rotation.
Faculty: Drs. J. Delfiner, J. Nasrallah, M. Kepecs, C. Brockington, C. Lay, L. Newman, Y. Azrieli, M. Cafferty, E. Chai, E. Pak, V. Moreno, S. Broner and C. Braun.