Residency Program
Clinical Facilities
A Neurology Residency at UWSOM provides you the opportunity to explore the field in a range of healthcare settings. Each of our four facilities is a dynamic, well-run, integrated and technologically advanced medical center. These four hospitals expose our residents to a broad range of patients ideal for neurology training.
All of the University of Washington’s affiliated hospitals have full services with respect to neuroimaging, electroencephalography for standard studies and monitoring, electromyography and nerve conduction studies, neurological surgery and rehabilitation medicine. Full-time faculty from the Department of Neurology at the University of Washington staff all of these neurology services and guide resident training.
University of Washington Medical Center
This 450-bed hospital offers world-class specialty and primary care, and is a nationally recognized teaching hospital for the UWSOM. Patients are received from a broad variety of settings, including regional referrals from surrounding states (WWAMI). The neurological service has an average monthly admission rate of 30-50 patients. About 60 consultations are seen each month. Here, residents attend two general and specialty neurology clinics per week. Attending rounds are held daily, and additional teaching rounds, including Chairman’s rounds and neuroradiology rounds, occur on a regular basis. Neurological complications of malignancy, organ transplants and cardiac surgery are frequently evaluated. In the outpatient setting, patients with movement disorders, neuromuscular diseases, headache and genetic disease are frequently seen.
Harborview Medical Center Neurological Unit
Harborview Medical Center is a 415-bed patient care, teaching and research facility in Seattle. Owned by King County and managed by the University of Washington, Harborview is a major regional healthcare facility for the Pacific Northwest and Alaska and is the region’s only level one trauma center. The Neurology team is comprised of physicians, pharmacists, and mid-level providers (nurse practitioners). Renowned as a center for neurological care, there are about 150 neurology admissions each month and an almost equal number of consultations seen through the Emergency Department or as inpatients. In addition to inpatient responsibilities, residents attend either one or two outpatient clinics a week that see over 4,000 patients a year. Harborview is also the site of the Regional Epilepsy Center, Sleep Disorder Unit and UW Medicine Comprehensive Stroke Center.
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
VA Puget Sound Health Care System serves as a VA regional referral center for neurological care across four states. The neurology service averages approximately 300 admissions and 2,000 consults/clinic visits per year. In addition to a weekly general neurology clinic, residents have the opportunity to participate in a number of subspecialty clinics which focus on epilepsy, dementia, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neurogenetics, neuromuscular diseases, and stroke. Additional training is available in EMG and video-EEG telemetry monitoring. Attending rounds are conducted daily and interdisciplinary conferences on stroke and neuroradiology are held each week.
Seattle Children's Hospital
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center has 250 beds as well as teaching and research facilities. The neurology teaching program is supervised by the University of Washington Division of Pediatric Neurology. Clinical care is provided for a complete spectrum of neurological disease affecting preterm infants to late adolescents. Emphases include epileptic conditions that are unique to childhood (such as infantile spasms), metabolic and genetic disorders, neurodevelopmental syndromes, and neuromuscular disease. Residents participate in an active inpatient and consultation service and during clinic rotations they work in a variety of general pediatric neurology and subspecialty clinics (such as epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, neuro-oncology, genetics, and neurodevelopmental disabilities). The division also operates a four bed video-EEG telemetry unit and provides comprehensive care of children with epilepsy including the ketogenic diet and evaluations for epilepsy surgery. Residents participate in a weekly Pediatric Neurology Conference, weekly resident didactics, and during certain rotations and electives they participate in a brain tumor board, epilepsy conference, brain cutting and metabolic disease conference.