Overview
Description
The Neurology clerkship is designed to teach students the principles and skills needed to recognize and manage the neurological diseases that practicing physicians are most likely to encounter.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- medical student
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
medical student.
Units
0 units
Catalog Details
Offering
Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Restrictions
medical student
Attributes
Unknown
Learning Outcomes
- recognize common neurological disease presentations.
- elicit a general and focused neurological history and perform and interpret a neurological examination.
- generate a differential diagnosis for common neurological complaints.
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the common indications and interpretations for neurological diagnostics (e.g., EEG, EMG, nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials, lumbar puncture, CT and MR imaging of the brain and spinal cord).
- recognize and appropriately respond to neurological emergencies.
- demonstrate familiarity with the ethical and psychosocial issues commonly encountered in the care of neurologically ill patients.
- demonstrate familiarity with medications used to treat neurological disorders (indication/methods of action/side effect profiles/interactions).