UCSD Neurology

[neurologista]

When I was applying I heard a lot about how UCSD is a "Malignant" program and there is q4 call for 3 years. I just wanted to post an update... I am currently a PGY-2 and I do not even know where the call room is yet! They have started a new nightfloat system which is great, as a PGY-2 you do two 2-wk blocks of nightfloat to cover the Hillcrest MC, and when you are at the VA or on elective you take home call q5-6 to cover the VA and Thornton hospital. Overall I really like the program and I encourage current applicants to consider it 🙂

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[doctorlarry]

When I was applying I heard a lot about how UCSD is a "Malignant" program and there is q4 call for 3 years. I just wanted to post an update... I am currently a PGY-2 and I do not even know where the call room is yet! They have started a new nightfloat system which is great, as a PGY-2 you do two 2-wk blocks of nightfloat to cover the Hillcrest MC, and when you are at the VA or on elective you take home call q5-6 to cover the VA and Thornton hospital. Overall I really like the program and I encourage current applicants to consider it 🙂

As a PGY4, I too have seen the change. Like day and night. Life is much better especially for the incoming PGY2's. The "malignant" reputation should be refuted. Our attendings are excellent and diverse, and I have learned so much from each of them. You take the good from each attending and mold yourself into an excellent neurologist. Also, our residents are quite successful in landing strong fellowship placements, such as EEG/Epilepsy at Columbia University and Interventional Pain at Johns Hopkins, to name a few recent ones.

So all the new candidates out there, if you're looking for an excellent education, research support, access to leaders in all subspecialties of neurology, solid fellowship opportunities, and then...the great city of San Diego to boot, this is the place to go.

With the call issue resolved, now candidates can focus on what makes our program top-notch! Feel free to PM me with questions...🙂

 

[95439]

As a PGY4, I too have seen the change. Like day and night. Life is much better especially for the incoming PGY2's. The "malignant" reputation should be refuted. Our attendings are excellent and diverse, and I have learned so much from each of them. You take the good from each attending and mold yourself into an excellent neurologist. Also, our residents are quite successful in landing strong fellowship placements, such as EEG/Epilepsy at Columbia University and Interventional Pain at Johns Hopkins, to name a few recent ones.

So all the new candidates out there, if you're looking for an excellent education, research support, access to leaders in all subspecialties of neurology, solid fellowship opportunities, and then...the great city of San Diego to boot, this is the place to go.

With the call issue resolved, now candidates can focus on what makes our program top-notch! Feel free to PM me with questions...🙂

I would LOVE to attend UCSD for their Neurology residency, but have heard they're not 'DO friendly'. Is that true?

 

[doctorlarry]

I would LOVE to attend UCSD for their Neurology residency, but have heard they're not 'DO friendly'. Is that true?

I am not sure where all these rumors come from. We have an extraordinary senior resident who is a DO with special interest and a plethora of research in stroke/epidemiology. Two years ago, our chief resident was a DO.

Check out our Neurosciences website, you can navigate around to find the Neurology residency link. We have a brand new chair, Dr. William Mobley, from Stanford, and he is/will be making huge positive changes for our department. I forsee this program becoming among the best of the best in the years to come.

Any other myths to dispell? 🙂

 

[doctorlarry]

It seems the craze in Neurology these days are routes toward interventional brain and spine. Let it be known that at UCSD, these routes are wide open.

We currently have a neurologist who did his stroke fellowship at UCSD and then pursued neurointerventional fellowship training at UCSD, and is now an attending on the neurointerventional service.

As far as interventional spine/pain, I have managed to earn an interventional pain fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

As far as interventional neurophysiology, intraop monitoring, ICU electrophysiological monitoring, etc., there will probably be a fellowship brewing in the years to come.

Of course, we have the bread and butter fellowships as well, EMG/neuromuscular, EEG/epilepsy, Stroke/Neurovascular, Movement disorders, Dementia/Cognitive, even HIV Neurology, all with leading experts in their respective fields.

We don't currently have a Sleep fellowship, however, in recent years, we have had success in achieving sleep fellowships at Stanford.

Check out our website: http://neurosciences.ucsd.edu/

Feel free to ask more questions.🙂

 

[95439]

It seems the craze in Neurology these days are routes toward interventional brain and spine. Let it be known that at UCSD, these routes are wide open.

We currently have a neurologist who did his stroke fellowship at UCSD and then pursued neurointerventional fellowship training at UCSD, and is now an attending on the neurointerventional service.

As far as interventional spine/pain, I have managed to earn an interventional pain fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

As far as interventional neurophysiology, intraop monitoring, ICU electrophysiological monitoring, etc., there will probably be a fellowship brewing in the years to come.

Of course, we have the bread and butter fellowships as well, EMG/neuromuscular, EEG/epilepsy, Stroke/Neurovascular, Movement disorders, Dementia/Cognitive, even HIV Neurology, all with leading experts in their respective fields.

We don't currently have a Sleep fellowship, however, in recent years, we have had success in achieving sleep fellowships at Stanford.

Check out our website: http://neurosciences.ucsd.edu/

Feel free to ask more questions.🙂

Thank you for the information doctorlarry....I'm an above average applicant, I believe, for the neurology residency. But I'm not a GREAT applicant (mainly due to an average step 1 score). Besides doing very well on step 2, is there any way of getting into UCSD? Also, I sent in my application a week ago, how long should I wait before contacting the program to see if I was accepted for an interview?