Academic Program

...are held every weekday throughout the academic year at the 2 primary teaching hospitals:

Monday a.m.: Formal bedside teaching rounds, led by various preceptors (FMC)

Monday noon: Neuroradiology Rounds (SHC) every 2 weeks

Tuesday a.m.: "Les Leçons du Mardi" - Neurology Case Rounds video-conferenced between FMC & SHC

Tuesday p.m.:  Formal bedside teaching rounds, led by various preceptors (SHC)

Wednesday: a.m:  Neuroradiology teaching rounds (FMC); video-conferenced to SHC

Thursday academic half-day (12:15 - 18:00): Neurology subspecialty/CanMEDS rounds and a two-hour seminar.  The seminars cover a curriculum of neurology topics that repeats every 2.5 years. All sessions are led by neurology preceptors.  Regular Communications Skills sessions (with actors) are also scheduled.

Friday Departmental Grand Rounds (08:00 - 10:15): During the first hour, neurology, neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation residents present a patient followed by a short didactic and interactive session. In the second hour, a topical didactic presentation is given, often by an invited guest speaker, or there is a clinical-pathological conference.  These rounds are video-conferenced between sites.

Annual departmental events include a sponsored residents' retreat, a sponsored neurology resident week-end basic science symposium, and the departmental Research Day.

When beginning internal medicine, the PGY-1 resident participates in the seminars for PGY-1 internal medicine residents, which covers core medical emergency topics.

Residents in all years have certain duties and responsibilities in common. These include:

• Participating in all departmental educational activities as a first priority.
• Participating in the education of more junior residents (from all disciplines) and clinical clerks who are rotating through the Neurology Service.
• Periodically making case presentations and short focused presentations at Rounds.