NEU 701 Core Clerkship: Neurology
Designed to introduce students to care of patients with neurological illness. Through an exposure to patients with a variety of illnesses, students will develop their neurological examination and history-taking skills, and develop an understanding of the work-up, diagnosis, and management of patients with neurological symptoms and diseases. It is strongly recommended students take MED 601 before this clerkship. At both Rush and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the student has extensive interaction with both attending staff and residents, and participates in daily attending rounds. Didactic teaching during the rotation includes a formal lecture series on topics in clinical neurology, weekly departmental conferences including Neurology Grand Rounds, and weekly clinical-radiologic-pathologic conferences. Students participate in the diagnostic workups of assigned patients. At Rush, the student is a member of the general neurology floor service and the stroke/critical care service for two weeks each. At Stroger, students are a member of the neurology team that sees neurology in-patients and consultation patients, as well as attending two outpatient clinics per week. Students are expected to be in attendance at daily work rounds and daily attending rounds. They are responsible for performing a history and physical examination on their assigned patients and presenting their patients. Students are expected to be involved closely in the initial and daily follow-up care of their patients, including writing daily notes. In addition, students are expected to attend all lectures and conferences. There is in-house rotating call for medical students at both sites. Prerequisite: none (MED 601 strongly recommended). FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]

NEU 781 Research in Neurology
Students may arrange research rotations individually with faculty at Rush. In order to receive credit for such a rotation, the person to whom the student will be responsible must write a letter describing the student's activities, responsibilities, amount of supervision, and the specific dates of the rotation. The student must submit the proposal to the Office of Clinical Curriculum for approval a minimum of eight weeks in advance of the rotation. The student must have written approval of the Director of Clinical Curriculum prior to beginning the rotation in order to finalize any arrangements. Research rotations are scheduled for a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of eight weeks in duration. No two-week research electives will be approved for credit. Research electives will apply toward the student's eight-week maximum allotted for credit in a given specialty. Prerequisites: NEU 701. FA WI SP SU [4 or 8 weeks]

NEU 792 Advanced Neurology
This advanced clerkship provides students the opportunity to further develop their clinical skills. Students will participate in the outpatient activities of the department and, in particular, will have ample opportunities to see patients in the movement disorder, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis clinics. This is a flexible program which will be structured to fit the interest and needs of individual students. Prerequisite: NEU 701. FA WI SP SU [4 weeks]