Neurology Residency

Fast Facts About our Residency
• Over 20 dedicated faculty members.
• Training at four hospitals (Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, Forest Park Hospital, Saint Louis University Hospital and VA Medical Center).
• Daily resident conferences that cover the subject matters of the inservice and Board examinations twice over 3 years.
• Accredited fellowship in neurophysiology and additional fellowships in stroke, epilepsy and neurocritical care.A fully accredited residency program.

We appreciate your interest in our neurology residency program. We seek to train aspiring neurologists who will provide high quality and state of the art care to their patients and will creditably represent themselves among their colleagues. We foster resident interest in clinical or basic research in the neurosciences.

Our program is composed of 20 positions beginning as a medical internship in the GY1 year and extending through GY4. We sponsor a child neurology training program which accepts one applicant yearly. Both programs are accredited by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and comply fully with the requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

All inpatient and outpatient activities are supervised daily by 28 full-time Neurology faculty members, 17 full-time Psychiatry faculty members and 8 dedicated members of the part-time or voluntary teaching faculty. In-house night call is every 5th-6th night for GY2 and GY3 residents.

One-hour conferences are held 5 days a week. A rotating schedule of multi-specialty conferences includes basic neurosciences (weekly), clinical electrophysiology (bi-weekly), child neurology, stroke, epilepsy, neuropathology, neuromuscular disorders, neuro-ophthalmology, neurocritical care (monthly) and neuro-rehabilitation and neuropsychology (bimonthly). This lecture series is designed to cover the important subjects of clinical and basic neurosciences over an 18-month period.

Thus, residents have lectures on individual subjects twice during their 3 year residency. The success of our residents in the annual Residents Inservice Training Examination is in part a testimony to the effectiveness of this program.

There are opportunities for clinical and basic research within the department and the university, and most residents publish several articles and abstracts during their training. Following graduation some 75% of residents pursue fellowship training and then enter academic or private practice.

The salary for these positions for 2008- 2009 ranges from $46,248 for GY1 to $48,996 for GY4. Health and malpractice coverage are included. In addition, the department provides a $300.00 stipend for a junior membership in The American Academy of Neurology, a subscription to Neurology, and the remainder for books. In the final year of the program, we support attendance at one or more national or regional meetings pertaining to neurology. We also provide reimbursement for those residents who are the primary sponsors of a presentation. St. Louis is an openly friendly and accessible city in which to live. The cost of living here is reasonably low for a city of its size, i.e., 14th largest in the USA.

The Neurology residency program uses ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) and the NRMP (National Residency Matching Program). Our 50 or so interview spots between December and February fill quickly, so early applications are encouraged. For more information regarding the NRMP Matching Program, please visit www.nrmp.org. Applicants with 2 USMLE scores below 80/200 must have extremely strong other credentials to be considered. While we will interview candidates whose CSA or USMLE results and ECFMG certificates are pending, we need to have this documentation before match day. US experience is a plus, not a must. We typically have a mix of international and US graduates. Since our 5 annual positions are listed with the Match, we do not offer positions outside of the Match. If we accept you as a resident, we will offer you a GY1 internship at our university hospital. We do offer J1 visas to most applicants. Please visit the ERAS website at ERAS for Students for more information on how to apply to our program. Thank you again for your interest in our neurology residency program.

 

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