Pediatric Neurology (JHH)

Approximately a month in advance, residents will be asked to complete onboarding paperwork (you will receive an email from Andrea with all of the requirements). It is extremely important that this is done in a timely fashion as failure to meet JHH deadlines will result in an inability to enroll in the rotation and require a delay in graduation as pediatrics is a required ACGME rotation.

On the first day of the rotation, you will need to enroll at the Registrar’s office and obtain an ID badge.  You may sign up for either a monthly parking pass (~$120) or a book of parking stamps (10 for $70) which the program will reimburse. There will be an email sent out in advance with all of the directions and instructions for all of these steps. This is a lengthy process so expect that you will not be able to attend morning clinic if you have one scheduled.

You will be provided a clinic schedule by the pediatric neurology chief resident once the onboarding paperwork is completed. Typically, you will be scheduled with a different attending each day. You will be expected to see patients and present to an attending as we do in our Frenkil Clinic. Some attendings will have you write notes in Epic.

Examples of some of the clinics include:

  • Epilepsy

  • Neuromuscular Disorders

  • Neurogenetics/Developmental Disorders

  • General Pediatric Neurology

  • Neuro-oncology

  • Vascular

  • Neuroimmunology

  • Headache

SYLLABUS 

Rotation Director:  Eric Kossoff, MD

Assistant Director: Adam Hartman, MD

‍PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Adult neurology residents at UMMC will spend two months during the resident’s PGY4 at Johns Hopkins.  The resident will rotate in the various outpatient pediatric neurology subspecialty clinics, held daily in the outpatient center (Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 5th floor).  Residents should be involved in the workup and management of many pediatric neurology patients and to have a chance to discuss and read about the problems they are seeing.  The rotations at Hopkins provide the residents with more opportunities for exposure to a broad range of sub-specialty pediatric neurology clinics, as these programs are more robust at Johns Hopkins than at UMMC.  

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COMPETENCY BASED GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

PATIENT CARE

  • Become proficient in obtaining a complete and age-appropriate neurologic history of infants and children

  • Become proficient in performing a complete and age-appropriate neurological examination of infants and children

  • Demonstrate ability to diagnose common childhood neurologic disorders

  • Demonstrate ability to initiate management of common childhood neurologic disorders

MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE

  • Learn the interrelationship of abnormalities of the nervous system with normal growth and development of the nervous system

  • Learn to recognize broad patterns of neurologic disease in infants and children‍

Ideally, there will be opportunities for the resident to evaluate children with both common and less common neurologic problems, including:

  • Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability

  • Learning, Attention, and Behavioral Disorders

  • Central nervous system malformations

  • Birth injuries of the nervous system

  • Head injuries

  • Childhood Seizures

  • Childhood Headaches

  • Strokes in infancy and childhood

  • CNS tumors in childhood

  • Pediatric Movement Disorders

  • Pediatric demyelinating disorders

  • Neuromuscular disorders of childhood

  • Neurologic complications of childhood systemic diseases and immunizations

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Last Updated: August 30, 2024