Stroke (Vascular Neurology) Fellowship
Duration: One year
Description: Our Vascular Neurology Fellowship is a 1 year post-graduate training program in advanced neurology with specific focus on stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Fellows will train under the guidance of board certified clinical neurologists with subspecialty training in vascular neurology.
Comprehensive exposure to all aspects of cerebrovascular disease including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, vascular dementia, prevention and acute stroke treatment, stroke genetics and stroke related imaging, through outpatient and inpatient clinical rotations is the focus of our fellowship. We serve as major Stroke Center to a large underserved population of over 2 million patients in central PA and are the only tertiary referral center for patients with cerebrovascular diseases in the region. As such we manage a wide variety of patients with cerebrovascular disease.
We offer active participation in clinical and translational research, teaching and community outreach. The fellow will have the opportunity to become actively involved in the area of clinical cerebrovascular research and can choose from a wide variety of ongoing clinical trials in stroke prevention, imaging and acute stroke treatment. We have close relationships and collaborations within the institution, with universities in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation allowing a broad involvement in scholarly activities.
Our program allows fellows to be trained in neuroultrasound, stroke related neuroimaging and neurocritical care. All fellows will participate in multidisciplinary stroke management and cutting edge acute stroke interventions. Fellows can become involved in community outreach programs and in epidemiological based stroke research. Fellows will be asked to teach. Teaching responsibilities will involve medical students, residents, CME courses for practicing doctors and patient/lay audiences.
Fellows are expected to provide on-call coverage from home and to be available via beeper at assigned periods of time. Such on-call time will not exceed more than 6 months in each 12-month period of training. All cases will be discussed with the stroke attending, who is available 24h/7days a week, but will allow the fellow to become increasingly independent in the management of stroke patients.
Fellows are eligible for three weeks of paid vacation time and one week of educational meeting time to present their poster or oral presentation. Reasonable expenses for attending the educational meeting will be paid by the program. Time for elective rotations and self directed study will be provided.
Contact Information:
Kerstin Bettermann, MD, PhD
Program Director
Penn State College of Medicine
Mail Code 037
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
kbettermann@hmc.psu.edu
Phone: 717-531-0003 (ext. 283934)
Fax: 717-531-0384
