Pediatric Neurology

Residents have core training in pediatric neurology in Year 1. In July and August, all residents will spend three hours per week in a clinical pediatric neurology rotation led by Elizabeth Dooling, M.D., a Board-certified pediatric neurologist at MGH. Residents will attend pediatric neuroradiology rounds, along with pediatric neurology and radiology residents, viewing scans and neuroimaging studies of children and adolescents with neurologic disorders. They will then visit the patients whose scans were viewed, taking histories and performing neurologic examinations, under supervision. The goals in this rotation are threefold: to learn history-taking of common and uncommon pediatric neurologic problems, to learn techniques of pediatric neurologic examinations and to correlate radiologic findings with clinical and historical data. The cases for teaching include cerebral palsy, mental retardation, seizures, learning disabilities, movement disorders, headaches, brain tumors and post-infectious, post-traumatic and metabolic encephalopathies.