About

Program Description

The UCSF General Neurology fellowship was established by John Engstrom and Jessamyn Conell-Price to create and promote academic outpatient neurology training. This is a one-year program. The program is a non-ACGME fellowship. There is an opportunity to have EMG/NCS training and accreditation. 

Mission

The goal of the UCSF general neurology fellowship is to provide advanced training and mentorship for neurology graduates who want to innovate and improve outpatient neurology. Our fellowship is a home for connection for trainees interested in seeing complex cases and becoming leading clinician-educators or improving clinical practice or policy in novel areas. We have tracks set up for clinician-educators (our graduate so far), neuro-palliative training, and genetics and developmental disabilities. We are also open to supporting graduates who are interested in a novel area of neurology practice or policy that bridges subspecialties or bridges
neurology and non-neurology.

Goals for our fellows include preparing for transition to academic faculty role, innovation and leadership, education of colleagues, residents, and medical students, development of teaching style and lectures, and education or research projects.

Details

Clinician-educator Track (1 year)
The clinician-educator fellowship track provides training in advanced clinical practice in comprehensive outpatient neurology, gaining expertise with procedural skills, advanced subspecialty care, non-neurology specialty care, and health systems approaches to streamlining neurology care in the outpatient setting. Fellows will actively participate in weekly didactic sessions, general neurology case conference and guest speaker series, and journal clubs. Fellows also have the opportunity to participate in our clinic leadership rounds and meetings to understand and contribute to the multidisciplinary team. As fellows rotate through other neurology and non-neurology sub-specialties they will participate in the didactics in those divisons. The goal of this fellowship pathway is to provide training needed to launch a leadership role as a generalist in academic and innovate solo practice neurologist.

The year generally consists of the following components:

• 15% time with UCSF complex diagnosis clinic with tertiary or quaternary referrals
• 15% time General Neurology continuity clinic, with triage to select cases of particular relevance for the clinical project
• 5-25% procedures (EMG/NCS, LP with ultrasound guidance, neuromuscular ultrasound, botulinum toxin PREEMPT protocol for migraine and spasticity, greater occipital nerve blocks, etc).
• 25-45% Month-long clinical rotations with neurology and non-neurology specialities
• 1 month of vacation

Neurogenetics Track (1 year)
The goal of this fellowship track is to provide advanced training for adult neurology fellows who are interested in advancing our skills, knowledge and care for adults with developmental disabilities, child-to-adult transitions, and improve our neurogenetics testing and evaluation. This fellow will work with neuro-geneticists, medical genetics, child neurology specialists and adult neurologists to gain expertise in this novel area

Research Opportunities

One-fifth of fellowship time is reserved for clinical or research projects; the fellowship program will support connection with mentors within neurology, neuroscience or other areas of clinical practice and health policy.

Facilities/Training Sites

University of California, San Francisco, Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay campuses, San Francisco General Hospital (the county safety net hospital)

How to Apply

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