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The enduring philosophy of the Department of Neurology at
the University of Southern California (USC) School of
Medicine is to offer a residency training program that
produces outstanding clinical neurologists. The program
provides a foundation in basic neuroscience plus an opportunity
to become fluent in the use of traditional clinical skills
and modern technology for the treatment of neurologic
disease. The USC program provides opportunities for learning
direct patient care in a teaching structure that emphasizes
responsibility, scholarship, and the development of moral
and ethical standards.
Four candidates for the residency program in adult neurology
are accepted each year. One candidate is accepted each year
into the combined neurology internal medicine program. One
candidate is accepted each year for the program in child neurology.
Graduates are equipped to enter any aspect of neurology, from
full-time academia to private practice.
Educational Activities
The Neurology Residency Program is the primary educational
focus of the department. Accredited by the ACGME since 1951
it includes both an Adult Program and a Pediatric Program.
Each requires three years with twelve residents in the adult
program and three fellows in the pediatric program. In 1993,
a joint resident-faculty retreat generated a departmental
Residency Review Committee that is responsible for conferences,
supervision, selection, and performance review of all residency
activities. In July of 1997, Dr. Christi Heck became director
of the now designated LAC+USC Medical Center Neurology Residency
Program, our adult neurology residency program; she was succeeded
by Dr. Mark Lew in 2002. Dr. Wendy Mitchell directs the child
neurology residency program based at Childrens Hospital of
Los Angeles.
Enhancing the department's educational mission was the introduction
in 1993 of neurology as a required clerkship in the Year IV
curriculum for medical students. Thus, Neurology became the
first clinical department to make wide use of interactive
computer learning with this program, developed and directed
initially by Dr. Said Beydoun. Dr. Mark Lew assumed responsibility
for the program's direction in 1997, and Dr. Margaret Burnett
replaced him in 2002.
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