University of Michigan
Department of Neurology
Program Evaluation Committee Meeting
January, 13th, 2015 - Noon
Attendance
Faculty: Drs. London, Gelb
Residents:
PGY2
PGY-3
Present
Benedetti, Giulia
Ebright, Matthew
Kobelja, Robert
Mohney, Nathan
McDonald, Melissa
Sieloff, Kurt
Stein, Andrew
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PGY-4
Present
Abrams, Eunice
Beltran, Erik
Lecso, Abbey
Moss, Brandon
Nurre, Emily
Ridder, Andrew
Sas, Andrew
Present
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Jacobson, Ryan
Mundwiler, Andrew
McDermott, Mollie
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Mcnamara, Nancy
Nolan, Danielle
Wang, Cynthia
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Staff: Bonita Bryant, Amanda Burke
Medical student grade update
 Dr. Gelb discussed medical student grades. Essentially, scores outside of the 3-6
range should be given very rarely.
VA resident
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Next academic year, we will have our total complement of 18 residents. The 18th
resident slot is funded by the VA, so we will plan on having three residents at the
VA at all times: VA Senior, VA Junior, and V3.
This V3 resident will do VA neurology clinic in the mornings, and psychiatry in the
afternoons. Since it is a half-time psychiatry rotation, each 2-week block of V3
will count as one of the four required psychiatry weeks.
V3 residents who have already completed their psychiatry requirements will have
an elective in the afternoon.
Their continuity clinic will be in the afternoon, as well, day of the week TBD.
The three residents will split call, obviating the need for a VA call pool.
Outpatient curriculum change proposal
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Mixed clinic
o Residents will do only one two week block of mixed clinic, some time in
their PGY2 year.
Selectives/subspecialty clinics
o Instead of selectives, there will be six required 2-week outpatient rotation
blocks, including:
 Epilepsy
 Neuromuscular
 Headache
University of Michigan
Department of Neurology
Program Evaluation Committee Meeting
January, 13th, 2015 - Noon
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Neuro-oncology
Multiple sclerosis
Cognitive and movement disorders.
o Each of these rotations will have 7-8 half days of subspecialty clinic and
one half day of continuity clinic. Wednesday mornings will be left open for
didactics.
o Specialty clinic rotations will have specific goals and objectives, a reading
list, and a take home test which must be completed by the end of the
rotation.
 Quality Improvement rotation
o Required 2-week rotation
o Curriculum still in early stages of development.
 Elective
o Most residents will have 8-9 elective blocks (2 weeks each.)
o Elective options include:
o Any clinical subspecialty
o Scholarly activity
o Sleep
o Sports neurology
o Neuro-otology
o Neuro-ophthalmology
o NICU
o Stroke
o Speech language pathology
o Neuroradiology
o Physical medicine and rehabilitation
o Elective rotations will be chosen at the beginning of the year, when the
schedule is made.
 EEG/EMG
o Most residents will be required to do 6 weeks of EEG and 8 weeks of
EMG. We will still encourage residents to do 12 weeks of EMG.
o Residents who receive the R25 grant will be allowed to reduce their EEG
to 4 weeks and EMG to 4 weeks if necessary to free up the total of 6
months of research time at the end of residency.
o Residents who are not on the R25 but who want to reduce their EEG or
EMG rotations may appeal to do so, and will be considered on a case by
case basis.