Academic Program

The program prepares the fellows for an academic and/or private practice positions. Pursuing a second year is highly recommended for applicants interested in academic positions. 
 
Rotations 

• Year 1
  The first year fellow will spend about 80-90% of the time interpreting EEG, evoked potentials and epilepsy monitoring studies. The Fellow will participate in the evaluation of patients with various types of epilepsy during inpatient as well as outpatient care. The Fellow will spend one half day session in the epilepsy clinic during the first year. One month will be dedicated for pediatric epilepsy rotation at St. Christopher’s Hospital . A total of two week rotation will be pursued in interpretating sleep studies. The fellow will also work in the EMG/neuromuscular section. 
• Year 2
  The fellow will be able to further advance the knowledge and expertise in evaluating complex intractable epilepsy patients with scalp and intracranial EEG studies before epilepsy surgery. The fellow will also have experience in the management of vagus nerve stimulators and actual participation and/or performance of WADA testing. Two chosen or proposed research projects are expected to be completed by the end of the second year. 

Conferences

The fellow will attend bi-weekly EEG/Epilepsy conferences held in the EEG/Epilepsy division. In addition, attendance of bi-weekly neuromuscular/EMG conferences is expected. The fellows will attend at least 2 national epilepsy/EEG meetings per years.

Click here to see the Clinical Neurophysiology - EEG/Epilepsy Fellowship Conference Schedule. 
 
Research

The epilepsy division encourages the participation of the fellows in various research projects inside the division of epilepsy/EEG and/or other collaborative research projects with the departments of neuroradiology and neurosurgery. The EEG research laboratory is equipped with the state-of-the-art hardware and software for performing EEG source imaging. Sophisticated equipment for performing MR spectroscopy, diffusion intensive imaging as well as functional MRI in epilepsy are available in the epilepsy and neuroradiology sections in the university. The fellows are encouraged to pursue innovative research in all areas of epilepsy. 
 
Evaluations

Monthly evaluation is performed with the program director during which feedback is provided regarding the fellow’s performance.