In your first year of internship, you will be rotating at Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital, and UConn Health in Farmington. The last block in June is Neurology boot camp, a month full of introductory neurology lectures, simulation training, and shadowing of service and clinic to get interns ready for PGY2.
Year |
Service |
Site |
Number of Weeks |
| PGY1 | Inpatient/Ward Medicine | HH / SFH / UC | 20 |
| ICU/CCU | HH / UC | 8 | |
| Consultative Neurology Service | HH | 2 | |
| Inpatient Neurology Service | HH | 2 | |
| Neurocritical Care | HH | 4 | |
| Ambulatory Service | HH | 4 | |
| Electives/Selectives in Medicine Subspecialties such as: Endocrinology; Infectious Diseases; Nephrology; Pulmonology; Rheumatology; or Cardiology | HH / SFH | 4 | |
| Neurology Continuity Clinic | Weekly | ||
| Neurology Boot Camp | HH / UC | 4 |
Your three years of advanced neurology training is split between Hartford Hospital and UConn Health. Rotations are also done at the Connecticut Children’s and the Hospital for Special Care, a rehabilitation hospital in New Britain. You also continue your continuity clinic one half day per week throughout the next three years. Below is a sample curriculum.
| PGY2 | Inpatient/Ward Neurology | HH | 16 |
| Consultative Neurology Service | HH / UC | 12 | |
| Night Float (3 weeks spent with a senior buddy) | HH | 4 | |
| IR | HH | 1 | |
| Ambulatory Subspecialty Clinics | HH / UC | 6 | |
| Neuro-Radiology and EEG | UC | 2 | |
| Elective | 7 | ||
| Vacation | 4 | ||
| PGY3 | Inpatient/Ward Neurology | HH | 2 |
| Consultative Neurology Service | HH / UC | 6 | |
| Day Float | HH | 2 | |
| Night Float | HH / UC | 3 | |
| Pediatric Neurology | CCMC | 12 | |
| Neurocritical Care | HH | 2 | |
| EEG | HH / UC | 4 | |
| EMG | HH / UC | 8 | |
| Ambulatory Subspecialty Clinics | HH / UC | 4 | |
| Elective | 5 | ||
| Vacation | 4 | ||
| PGY4 | Inpatient/Ward Neurology | HH | 6 |
| Consultative Neurology Service | HH / UC | 10 | |
| Day Float | HH | 6 | |
| Night Float | HH | 3 | |
| Psychiatry | IOL | 4 | |
| Neuropathology | HH | 2 | |
| Neuro-Rehabilitation | HH / HSC | 2 | |
| Ambulatory Subspecialty Clinics | HH / UC | 9 | |
| Elective | 6 | ||
| Vacation | 4 |