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Legacy Salmon Creek
Vancouver, WA

Legacy Medical Group - Neurology
2121 NE 139th St, Ste 205
Vancouver, WA 98686
Site Director: Lawrence Neville, MD
Ph 360-487-4707
Cell 360-431-8867
Fax 360-487-4709
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Clinic Supervisor:  Scott Carlson
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Legacy Medical Group Neurology and Neurosurgery
1040 NW 22nd Ave Suite 420 | Portland, OR 97210
(503) 413.8860 Direct | (503) 413.6166 Office | (503) 413.5903 Fax

 

Pre-arrival Requirements

The following information should be sent to Janet Mitchell 30 days before the start of your clerkship. 

JB Kerzan
Coordinator Graduate Medical Education | GME
Legacy Health
2282 NW Northrup St, Ste 20
Portland, OR 97210
P: 503-413-8258
F. 503.413.7361
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Travel & Housing

Housing:  There is a 2-bedroom apartment in the Salmon Creek neighborhood.  Please contact Michelle Pelt for details.

Stacey Erdahl
Program Operations Administrator
Western Washington WWAMI Regional Office
University of Washington School of Medicine
525 Lilly Road, Ste 204
Olympia, WA  98596
Office: 360-492-3209
Cell:  206-679-4579
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Transportation:  You will need a car.  You will receive mileage reimbursement for one roundtrip to and from Vancouver. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for mileage reimbursement or to make other travel arrangements.

 

First Day & Orientation

Clerkship orientation: You will need to view the away student orientation video on the Distance Learning page. Please let the clerkship coordinator know if you have questions or any difficulties viewing the video.

Equipment to bring:White coat and name tag, reflex hammer, tuning fork (128Hz), stethoscope, (ophthalmoscope recommended).

First day:  Please report to the clinic at 7:45AM.

 

Course Requirements

Course requirements are listed below. Refer to the Distance Learning page for due dates.

Pocket syllabus: A “pocket syllabus” is available at your site. A printable (PDF) version is also available on the Pocket Syllabus page.

Cases: Two case write-ups are due each week. Further information is available in the orientation video and on the Cases page. Your assigned case numbers are on the Distance Learning page. Please note that your assigned case numbers are different than for the Seattle-based students. Weekly case answers and video lectures will be available on the Distance Learning page on Thursdays after 1PM.

Patient log: You are required to log in the patients you have seen each week. The log is described in the clerkship orientation video. Additional details are on the Patient Log page.

Clinical & Bioethical CEX exercises: You are required to do both a clinical and a bioethical mini-CEX for this course. See the Mini-CEX page for details.

Presentations: Presentation requirements are described in the orientation video and are available on the Presentations page.

Final exam: The scheduling/notification process runs through UW Testing Services and the contact email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. See the Final Exam page for information about the exam.

 

About The Site

Students are expected to spend five days per week with the providers at the Vancouver site.  A typical week will be M-Th at the Legacy Salmon Creek location with Dr. Neville.  Fridays will be at the Legacy Good Samaritan location with Dr. Youssefian.

Leena Youssefian, MD
Legacy Medical Group-Neurology at Good Samaritan
1040 NW 22nd Ave Medical Office Building 2, Ste 420, Portland, OR 97210
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Office: 503-413-6166
Cell: 949-690-9546

A car is needed at this location.  The best place to park at Legacy Salmon Creek in Vancouver is the main parking garage.  The best place to park at Legacy Good Samaritan in Portland is parking structure 2.

The dress code is formal/white coat.  Your badge should be worn.

Dr. Neville is the clerkship site director.   He will observe student’s performance of the neurological examination within the first two weeks of the rotation, and provide feedback. Hopefully, this will happen in the last 2 weeks, as well, to ensure mastery of the neurological examination. The clinical mini-CEX can be performed with any of the clinic preceptors.  Mya Erickson is the clinic coordinator who has control of the schedules and is a good resource. Please tell the site director if you have any specific goals for the month so that your experience is as good as possible.

Inpatient Experience:  Our neurology group does not have an inpatient service.

Clinic Experience:  A combination of three different learning models will be employed in clinic. In the autonomous model, the student sees the patient first and then presents to the preceptor. In the shadow model, the student will follow the preceptor and observe different patient interaction styles. The final model allows the student to evaluate the patient, but in the presence of the preceptor, which definitely provides the opportunity for the most thorough feedback. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Other opportunities include observing / reading EMGs, EEGs, evoked potentials, lumbar punctures, radiographic procedures, etc.  Clinic typically runs from 8AM to 5PM. There are no weekend or night clinic responsibilities.