Adult Residency Tracks

Our Resident Education Track provides an individualized and comprehensive training plan to prepare the residents for a career in education. Resident educators interested in a future career in undergraduate or graduate medical education will work closely with education leadership in the Department of Neurology and education experts throughout the medical school to hone their education skills. Through a tailored training plan implemented throughout residency, residents will gain experience in curriculum design and management, mentorship, coaching and feedback delivery. Residents will also grow their skills in bedside teaching and didactics. Graduates in this pathway will be competitive and highly skilled educators in academic medicine.

Our Master Clinician Track provides intensive exposure to wide variety of neurological specialties taught by faculty designated as master clinicians. This track provides the training and tools needed to be a highly competent modern day neurologist with special emphasis on diagnostic reasoning, management of complicated and multifaceted neurologic conditions, the bidirectional relationship between neurologic and systemic disease, procedural expertise, health care economics, and social determinants of health. Graduates in this pathway will be well-equipped to begin independent practice whether it is right out of residency as a general community neurologist, after fellowship as a subspecialist in academic medicine, or anything in between. Training is individualized to each resident.

Our Physician-Scientist Track allows you substantial time during your residency training, including dedicated time as early as your intern year to pursue bench, translational or clinical research under the mentorship of world leaders in neurology. Combined with this expertise and WashU being the #1 NIH funded neurology department, your opportunities are limitless. We have a strong record of securing R25 funding and many of our graduates have primarily research careers, with early success in obtaining federal and private grants and progressing to independent scientists with their own lab. Our graduates are leaders in the spectrum of research from studying basic mechanisms underlying disease in cell lines and animal models all the way to health disparities and dissemination and implementation research.