110 Neurology Core Clerkship (1.5 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie, A. Brown Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: UCSF 3rd year medical students. Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
Students are assigned patients for study under the supervision of attending and resident staffs. They attend work rounds, attending rounds, clinic, grand rounds, conferences and lecture-seminars, emphasizing diagnosis and management of core clinical problems in neurology. This course is taught in conjunction with the 4-week Psychiatry 110 clerkship, resulting in an 8-week long continuity clinic and a combined psychiatry and neurology conference.
130.01 CIEx - Clinical Behavioral Neurology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Perry Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will explore the clinical evaluation and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Instruction on dementia subtypes, brain-behavior relationships, cognitive assessment, psychopharmacology and neuropathology will be offered.
130.03 CIEx - Adult Outpatient Neurology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110. KLIC and PISCES students are required to have completed at least 50% of their longitudinal curriculum with interim evaluations that are on course for a passing grade in neurology.
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will rotate in the neuromuscular, movement disorders, and neuroinflammatory/multiple sclerosis subspecialty clinics under the supervision of a limited number of teaching neurology attendings.
130.04 CIEx - Child Neurology Outpatient Apprenticeship (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Foster-Barber Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 or PEDIATRICS 110
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will work directly with 2-3 core general child neurologists, including attending conferences, reviewing results, meeting with care teams, and seeing patients.
130.05 CIEx - Child Neurology Inpatient Elective (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Foster-Barber Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 or PEDIATRICS 110
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will work with the resident and faculty on the main inpatient consult service for child neurology. Students will participate in patient care in the ICU, ward consults, and in the Emergency Room settings.
130.06 CIEx - Child Neurology Inpatient Subspecialty Elective (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Foster-Barber Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 or PEDIATRICS 110
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend one week each on subspecialty inpatient teams: Pediatric Epilepsy and Pediatric Neonatal Care. Students will participate in consults and family conferences.
140.01A Advanced Clinical Clerkship (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): V. Douglas Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 and fourth year standing, or NEUROLOGY 110 and completion of core clerkships in Medicine, Surgery and Pediatrics.
Restrictions: 4th-year Medical students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will spend 4 weeks as acting interns on the neurohospitalist service at UCSF Health. Two weeks is spent on the consult service and two weeks on the primary ward service. The neurohospitalist service is a tertiary care referral service that serves the Bay Area, Northern and Central California. There will be exposure to a wide variety of neurologically affected patients in and out of the intensive care unit. Attendance at departmental clinical rounds, seminars and conferences is required.
140.02A Off-Campus Clerkship (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110
Restrictions: Instructor approval required Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical clerkship in approved hospitals by special arrangement and approval of the dean and the chairperson of the department.
140.02B Off-Campus Clerkship (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110
Restrictions: Instructor approval required. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical clerkship in approved hospitals by special arrangement and approval of the dean and the chairperson of the department.
140.04 Child Neurology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Foster-Barber Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110, and NEUROLOGY 110, and PEDIATRICS 110
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Asynchronous - Independent Study
Participation in child neurology activities, both inpatient and outpatient, and all regularly scheduled conferences of the Child Neurology Division. Study of the developing nervous system and diseases of the nervous system affecting infants, children and adolescents.
140.10 Advanced Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology - ZSFG (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Pet, V. Douglas Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 and fourth-year standing
Restrictions: ONLY UCSF Students, no visiting students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will spend a total of 4 weeks at SFGH, San Francisco’s only trauma center, where they will develop advanced neurological skills in the care of emergent neurological patients through triage, evaluation, and neurocritical care management. Students spend two weeks on the neurology consultation service under the supervision of the consultation resident and attending neurologist. The other two weeks are spent caring for patients in the neurocritical care unit with the neuro-ICU team.
140.12 Neurovascular/Neurocritical Care (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): N. Ko, W. Smith Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing. NEUROLOGY 110. Consent of instructor.
Restrictions: Limited to one student per block. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This advanced clerkship concentrates on the fundamentals of critical care with an emphasis placed on neurological illness. Essential skills and concepts related to the management of critically-ill neurological/neurosurgical patients will be introduced during lectures, conferences, daily rounds and night-calls.
140.13 Clinical Behavioral Neurology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Perry, B. Miller, H. Rosen, K. Rankin, M. De May, M. Geschwind, B. Seeley Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110
Restrictions: 3rd- or 4th-year student in good academic standing. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The Neurobehavioral rotation will explore brain-behavior relationships in neurodegenerative disorders. Instruction on dementia subtypes, cognitive assessment, psychopharmacology, and neuropathology will be offered. To apply this knowledge, students will participate in multi-disciplinary clinics, during which they will observe and perform neurobehavioral histories and examinations. Clinicians will provide feedback and guidance, supplementing differential diagnoses and plans for intervention.
140.16 Advanced Outpatient Neurology Elective (2 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110
Restrictions: This course is not available every block and all enrollments should be pursued directly through Dr. Richie. Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Independent Study, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students spend two weeks rotating through a variety of outpatient neurologic subspecialties. This course serves to provide outpatient neurology exposure but does not substitute for a neurology sub-internship for those applying in neurology.
140.17 Dementia in the Outpatient Setting - Fresno (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Alving Prerequisite(s): NEUROLOGY 110 and/or 4th year standing.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Project, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a 2- or 4-week elective at the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer & Memory Center for 4th-year medical students. Students will spend time seeing patients at the Alzheimer Center and will participate in our multidisciplinary team meetings. Other experiences may include a home visit, elder abuse conference involving local social workers and law enforcement. A short project is required during rotation.
140.18 Memory & Aging Center Remote Neurobehavioral Rotation (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Perry Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of a general Neurology course recommended
Restrictions: 4th Year visiting students in Good Academic Standing Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Asynchronous - Independent Study
The Remote Neurobehavioral rotation explores brain-behavior relationships in neurodegenerative disorders. Students will participate in a didactic series that includes instruction on dementia subtypes, cognitive assessment, evaluation and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. To apply this knowledge, students will remotely participate in multiple-disciplinary clinics, during which they will observe and perform neurobehavioral histories and examinations. This course is for visiting students.
140.19 Sleep Medicine (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Ashbrook Prerequisite(s): Students in Career Launch in good academic standing
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Lab-Skills, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Sleep medicine is an interdisciplinary field bringing together medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, ENT, and OMFS. Students will have the opportunity to see a range of patients and learn about evaluation and treatment of sleep complaints. Regardless of which field of medicine students pursue, sleep impacts all patients. Poor sleep has a huge range of negative health outcomes. Students will learn to understand sleep disorders so they will not miss these critical treatment opportunities.
150.01 Research in Neurology (3 - 24 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Richie Prerequisite(s): Consent of faculty member in charge of student's research project and approval of third and fourth year coordinator.
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lab-Science, Direct - Project, Direct - Field Work
Opportunities for clinical or laboratory research under the guidance of department faculty.
170.11 Exploring Pediatric Neurology (1 units) Fall, Spring
Instructor(s): S. Wietstock Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
This elective will explore varying topics in Pediatric Neurology by inviting professionals to speak about their careers with the intention of teaching students about career paths in Pediatric Neurology, highlighting interesting work relevant to the field completed by members of the UCSF community and exposing students to the varying types of patients and conditions that they may encounter while working as a Pediatric Neurologist.
170.30 Intro to Neuro Subspecialties (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): A. Nelson Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
This course is intended for medical students interested in Neuroscience-related subspecialties, including Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology, and Psychiatry. Through weekly lectures by different physicians and physician-scientists, it will provide an overview of clinical and research opportunities in each presented field. There will be emphasis on evaluation and treatment of patients, relevant research, training/residency, subspecialty fellowships, and career development.
198 Supervised Study (1 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): Staff Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Project, Direct - Independent Study, Student - Project, Student - Independent Study
Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.