Neurology Firms - Meeting Times & Information
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To facilitate clinical services, the Neurology Department is subdivided in to several "firms" or teams (listed below.) Students are assigned to a firm, which will between primary base for the rotation. To enhance breadth of exposure to neurology students and encouraged to attend clinics of various neurological subspecialties whenever firm activities allow (see clinics page.)

Inpatient Neurology
Stroke Firm
20 S. Park
Neurology Consults
Pediatric Neurology

Inpatient Firm
Page the Inpatient Neurology Resident through the hospital operator.

Students are expected to be at morning report 8:30 in H6/581 at UW on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and multidisciplinary rounds 9:00 to 9:15 on the same days. On Wednesdays there is no morning report or multidisciplinary conference for the students on the inpatient firm but there is neuropathology at 8:30 am in the Neuro library every first and third (and fifth, if present) Wednesday of each month. Morning report is held in the Neurology Library on H6/581 and multidisciplinary rounds are held in the Neurosciences Conference room on D6/4.

Stroke Firm
After the course orientation on your first day, please page the stroke resident on call to find out where to catch up with the team. Otherwise, meet at morning report, which is held daily at 8:30 a.m. in the neurology library, H6/581 CSC.

Students are expected to attend morning report daily, followed by multidisciplinary rounds at 9:00 a.m. in the D6/4 report room. Ward rounds follow, starting at approximately 9:15 a.m.

The main outpatient clinic responsibility is for urgent stroke visits, which occur on an ad hoc basis; your attending will notify you when these arise. The stroke attendings otherwise do not have routine clinics while on service. Students may attend Dr. Dulli's clinic on Tuesday afternoons (cancelled when he's on service) and Dr. Sattin's clinic on Thursday afternoons (cancelled when he's on service.) Both start at 1:00 p.m. in the neurology clinic, B module, 2nd floor.

Pediatric Firm
The Pediatric Neurology firm covers both patients admitted to the service as well as inpatient consults. Both patients admitted to the service as well as consult patients will be assigned to each student and the student is then expected to monitor the day-to-day progress of their patients.

Page the Pediatric Neurology Resident through the hospital operator.

Students are to round on their patient(s) prior to rounding with the resident or going clinic.

Students will round with the pediatric-neurology resident between 8:00-9:30 am depending on the pediatric clinic schedule.

Attending rounds will vary depending on the clinic schedule.

While on the pediatric neurology service the following pediatric clinic schedule applies depending on the attending covering the service at the time:

Dr. Stafstrom's Clinics
Thursday AM starting at 8:00
Friday AM starting at 8:00

Dr. Sheth's Clinics
Tuesday all day starting at 8:00

Dr. Hsu's Clinics
Monday AM starting at 8:00.

Noon time (12:00-1:00 pm) is reserved for didactics and all students should report to the Neuro Library on H6/581. The exception is Thursday when noon time didactics are replaced by chairman rounds and this session is reserved for the residents only. Therefore, with some exceptions when chairman rounds are cancelled, there is not a scheduled noon time didactic for the students on Thursday.

The inpatient consult resident varies from month to month. The best way to get in touch with the consult resident is to identify yourself as the student on consults at the end of morning report on the first day of your rotation.

Students are expected to be at morning report 8:30-9:00 am at UW on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesdays there is no morning report but there is Neuropathology at 8:30 am in the Neuro library every 1st and 3rd (and, if present, 5th) Wednesday of each month. Morning report is held in the Neurology Library on H6/581.

The inpatient consult service is usually a busy service covering consults both at the VA and UW. Only adult patients are seen by the consult service since there is a separate neuropediatrics service which manages all the pediatric neuro consults.

Rounding times with the attending vary depending on the clinic schedule but students should round on the patients assigned to them prior to morning report.

20 S. Park/Physicians Plus
Arrive at 9:00 AM at 20 S. Park, Ste. 202, and check in with
Dr. Dreizin (287-2090)

Most days, students see patients with a staff neurologist in the office or the hospital. They work with a neurologist half a day at a time. We try to have students doing at least part of the history and exam on each new patient they see. When possible, students see the patient first.

On call days (at least two during the three week rotation) students will work up emergency inpatient admissions and consults until 10:00 PM, and discuss the cases with the on-call neurologist.

Students should be at 20 South Park St., Room 202 at 9:00 each day. We have a clinical conference at 8:15 on Wednesdays on the neurology floor at Meriter Hospital. Students are most welcome to attend, unless they go to the neuroradiology conference at UW Hospital. We expect the students to go to the daily 4:15 pm afternoon lectures at UW and Friday Grand Rounds at UW.