Massachusetts General Hospital Child Neurology Residency Program
A three-year child neurology residency program with clinical and research training in common and rare neurologic disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and affiliated institutions.
OverviewThe 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 a R25 grant. This allows for qualified and interested residents, including those in Child Neurology, 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.
Our program provides opportunities to interact with colleagues at weekly seminars, lectures and conferences.
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
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)
Summer Stock Lecture Series (PDF)
Weekly Schedule
Clinical courses, conferences and/or lectures are given in the subspecialties of pediatric neurology at each institution.
Katherine B. Sims, MD, Program Director
For a list of Neurology Department doctors, go to www.massgeneral.org/neurology/doctors/
Current Residents
| Class of 2011 | |
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| Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD University of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Robin Ryther, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Class of 2010 | |
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| Paula Schleifer, MD University of Brazil | David Dredge, MD University of Massachusetts, USA |
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| Ju Tang, MD, PhD Bejing Medical University, China | Arezou Heshmati, MD Tehran University of Medicine, Iran |
Child Neurology Residency Program Alumni
- Cat Chu-Shore, MD (2008)
- Ali Fatemi, MD (2008)
- Nwanneka Okolo, MD (2007)
- Sarah Barnett, MD (2007)
- Edward Gilmore, MD (2006)
Register with the SF Match program: Child Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency Match. No additional materials are required.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact the program director through her assistant, Virginia Tosney-Trask, at 617-726-1813.
Katherine B. Sims, MD
Director, Child Neurology Residency Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neurology
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Child Neurology Residency Program
Charles River Plaza, North Building5th Floor, Suite 5240
185 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-1813
Public Transportation Access: yes
Disabled Access: yes
Mailing Address
Katherine B. Sims, MD
Director, Child Neurology Residency Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neurology
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Program director assistant: Virginia Tosney-Trask, 617-726-1813.
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