Massachusetts General Hospital

Overview

The Partners Child Neurology Residency Training is a three-year program designed to provide residents with clinical training in child neurology, including one year of mandated clinical adult neurology training.  We believe it important that the resident in training have exposure to basic science information as it applies to the nervous system and clinical neurology.  Our program, therefore, offers many opportunities to attend neuroscience lectures, and to interface with basic and translational scientists in the Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital and allied institutions, including the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, MIT and other Boston-area academic institutions.

We believe our approach of integrating research experience with clinical care is essential to the training of child neurologists, and to the informed care of patients.

The Program has been awarded both R25 and K12 grants.  These funding mechanisms allow for qualified and interested Child Neurology residents to make internal application for extension of training in translational neuroscience research after the clinical child neurology portion of their program."

Following the first clinical adult neurology training year the subsequent two years of clinical child neurology include inpatient rotations, specific Core Rotations occur in  subspecialties (Developmental NeuroPediatrics, Neurogenetics, Neurofibromatosis, Tuberous Sclerosis, Dysmyelinating Disroders, Autism and ASD/PDD disorders, Learning Disorders) as well as in Epilepsy/EEG, Electrophysiology/Neuroradiology, Neuropathology and Psychiatry/Rehabilitation.

In addition to daily teaching that occurs during the department's clinical activities, residents are provided a high-quality, organized curriculum of "hot seat" case conferences, lectures, and subspecialty conferences that provides a broad exposure to the many facets of pediatric neurology. 

Our program affiliations include:

• Partners Neurology Residency Training Program
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• MassGeneral Hospital for Children Pediatric Residency Program
• Mass General Hospital Neuroscience Center
• Shriners Burn Institute
• Spaulding Pediatric Rehabilitation Hospital Network
• Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center

Current Residents

Class of 2013
Kevin Shapiro, MD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts	Joseph Glykys, MD, PhD Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
Class of 2014
Aaron Boes, MD, PhD University of Iowa School of Medicine	Shelley Waite, MD Loyola University School of Medicine, Chicago
Class of 2015
France Fung, MD Tulane University School of Medicine	Ji Young Lee, MD, PhD Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Class of 2016
Melissa Walker, MD, PhD Columbia University School of Medicine	Kristen Lindgren, MD, PhD Boston University School of Medicine

Updated 10/26/2012

Acquisition of basic science information as it applies to the nervous system and clinical neurology is essential to the training of the child neurologist and to the informed care of patients. Curriculum aims to give extensive exposure to clinico-pathophysiologic correlations. Specific training is directed to the following basic areas:

• Neuroanatomy/Neuropathology with emphasis on basic neuroanatomy and clinicopathological correlations particularly as taught through brain cutting and case-based conferences where gross and microscopic neuropathology are presented in context of clinical diagnostic categories.
• Neurophysiology with emphasis on basic neurophysiology and theory with an introduction to the techniques used to assess these parameters in clinical patient evaluation.
• Neuropharmacology, neurochemistry, developmental neurobiology, molecular neurogenetics are taught through didactic lectures and by specific pathway discussion through case-based learning.

Clinical adult neurology is taught through patient-oriented approach to learning on inpatient neurology at both the MGH (CMF stroke service and RDAdams general neurology service) and BWH, the intensive care unit, the emergency room, neurosurgical inpatient service and outpatient clinic.

Clinical child neurology is taught through an inpatient child neurology service which functions as both consult service to Mass General Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurosurgical service, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), the Shriners Burn Institute and the Spaulding Pediatric Rehabilitation service and as a direct admission service for primary child neurology diagnoses and child neurology staff patients. Child neurology cases are seen in the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric emergency room on consultant basis.

Curriculum (PDF)

General Competencies (PDF)

Core Rotations

Pediatric Subspeciality Core Rotation (PDF)

Epilepsy/EEG Core Rotation  (PDF)

Electrophysiology/Neuroradiology Core Rotation (PDF)

Psychiatry/Rehabilitation Core Rotation (PDF)

Neuroscience Lecture Series

Summer Stock Lecture Series (Excel)

Weekly Schedule

Resident Weekly Schedule (Excel)

Resident Weekly Conferences (Word)

Clinical courses, conferences and/or lectures are given in the subspecialties of pediatric neurology at each institution.

View the Events schedule on the Resident Life page of Partners Residency website.

MGH Child Neurology Graduates: 1983-2011

Updated 9/1/2011

If you have further questions, please contact the program director through her assistant, Virginia Tosney-Trask, at 617-726-1813.

Child Neurology Residency Program

Phone: 617-726-1813

Public Transportation Access: yes
Disabled Access: yes

Pediatric Neurology Residency Program

Coordinator: Virginia Tosney-Trask
Phone: 617-726-1813
E-mail: vtosneytrask@partners.org

Mailing address

Katherine B. Sims, MD
Director, Child Neurology Residency Program
Massachusetts General Hospital