Epilepsy Fellowship
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UI Health is a Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Our one-year epilepsy fellowship program is designed to produce the highest level of clinical competency, medical knowledge, and research skills and for our graduates to practice independently in an academic or subspecialty clinical program in the area of epilepsy. Our program will be unique due to the multidisciplinary nature of our clinical and research programs that go beyond patient care. This will include exposure to clinical trials, epilepsy comorbidities (such as psychiatric disorders), and patient quality of life into the realm of new technologies, treatments, and clinical trial models.
The fellow will learn from epilepsy clinics, reading/interpreting EEGs, attending conferences, teaching, and doing a research project, while caring for adult epilepsy patients. Fellows will spend at least 1 month learning pediatric EEG and epilepsy. The fellow will partake in Phase I and Phase II pre-surgical work up for intractable epilepsy cases and participate in variety of specialized testing, including WADA, BOT, intra-operative electro-corticography, awake intra-op language and motor mapping, as well as stereo EEG interpretation and bedside brain stimulation with functional mapping. Fellows will be familiarized with variety of epilepsy surgery approaches, including resection, LITT, RFA as well as neuromodulation (VNS, RNS, DBS), all of which are being performed at UI Health.
There will be different blocks consisting of continuous inpatient video-EEG, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), clinic blocks, elective, pediatric epilepsy, and vacation. Elective opportunities include research block, neuro-intraoperative monitoring (NIOM), Sleep, Neuropsychology, or any of the core rotations listed above.
For education, fellows will attend multiple weekly conferences, including didactics, EEG teaching conference, neurology grand rounds, and a multidisciplinary surgical conference, during which fellows will have the opportunity to present epilepsy pre-surgical cases and participate in discussion with neuroradiology, neuropsychology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery. In addition, biweekly or monthly journal clubs will be conducted as well.
Fellows will also have an opportunity to teach neurology residents and medical students throughout the year. Participation/attendance in national annual American Epilepsy Society meeting is encouraged.
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The Epilepsy Neurology Fellowship is part of the NRMP match and application process takes place through ERAS.