Neurology
Pete Roy, M.D, clerkship site director, Neurology
Overview
- Required 4th year core rotation
- 4 weeks in length
- Direct inpatient and outpatient neurological evaluation and care
- Students are not required to take call, but optional call can be arranged
Goals
- Learn to independently form neurologic assessments of new patients
- Neurologic history and examination
- Diagnostic impression and treatment plan
- Exposure to a variety of neurologic conditions with video lectures and expanded case studies
- Stroke
- Seizure
- Parkinson's Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Dementia
- Migraine
- Chronic pain
- One-on-one learning with neurologists
Typical Schedule
- Weekday mornings, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - interviews and exams with inpatients at Mount Nittany Medical Center (present to attending neurologist and write case)
- Weekday afternoons - see patients in clinic at 2121 Old Gateburg Road and Penn State Hershey Medical Group - Park Avenue in State College
- Fridays, 1:00 p.m. - watch video-linked Neurology Grand Rounds from Hershey campus
Meet our Faculty
- Pete Roy, M.D. , clerkship site director
- Brian Hyman, M.D.
- E. Eugene Marsh, M.D.