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EDUCATION
Emory Pediatric Neurology Teaching Syllabus
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A, 404-727-5756
Pediatric Neurology Teaching Syllabus
This project is supported by a grant from the University Teaching Committee of Emory University. Time support and encouragement
is provided from the Chief of the division of Child Neurology, Dr. John Sladky, and the Chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics, Dr. Devn Cornish. I want to thank them from the begining for their support for this project.
This Teaching Syllabus is an effort to have an accessible source of basic Pediatric Neurology information for all interested
learners of the art of Pediatric Neurology. This syllabus will be updated, edited, and linked to other Web sites that are
appropriate to offer information and insight into Pediatric Neurologic Medicine and care. This is a starting point for a Web
based reference to Pediatric Neurology that will evolve as time and support allow.
Pediatric Neurology is the medical specialty of evaluating, treating and caring for infants, children, adolescents, and in
certain circumstances young adults with known or suspected problems involving the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves
or muscles. At Emory University School of Medicine, Pediatric Neurology is taught as a clinical rotation to Medical Students
in their fourth year of training as a four week rotation that will satisfy their required Neurology Course Requirements. All
residents in Neurology must spend three months on the Pediatric Neurology service to meet basic eligibility requirements for
the Board of Neurology and Psychiatry to become Board certified in Neurology. Pediatric Residents and Child Development may
take a four week rotation on the Pediatric Neurology service during their training. Child Psychiatry fellows rotate through
the Pediatric Neurology Clinic as part of their training. This constantly changing mix of learners who interact with the
Pediatric Neurology faculty whose responsibilities also rotate allows each individual’s Pediatric Neurology rotation to be
unique in exposure to Pediatric Neurology disease at unpredictable volumes. The Pediatric Neurology faculty tries to ensure
that the learning experience on Pediatric Neurology is as complete as possible for the trainees level of medical education.
The concept of the Web based Teaching Syllabus was devised during discussions within the Division of Child Neurology over
how to best collate and distribute handouts, reference lists and reading materials to the many learners on the Pediatric
Neurology rotation. This syllabus is actually a attempt to try to see if the Web is the ideal place for such a collection
of information and an attempt to expand what can be offered to learners of Pediatric Neurology.
The actual web page development is by Philip Holt, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Emory University
School of Medicine. The initial content is a compilation of lecture notes, reviews developed for other teaching settings
and clinical insights developed as a clinical practioner of Pediatric Neurology in what is now the Emory System of
Healthcare. The plan is to have contributions from other members of the Pediatric Neurology faculty and links to other
relavant pediatric neurology sites. This project is initiated with computer space available from Emory University Computing
Center. The webpages are being authored in "notepad" with plans to upgrade to a web authoring software tool as the projec
grows. A list of Pediactric Neurology links will be built as the project grows.
Should anyone benefit from these web pages in their educational or personal travels through life, they should credit
the many people who were interested in Neurologic problems of children long before me or the Web existed. You need to thank
as I do, all the children I have examined and the parents and families I have seen for neurologic care. I hope I have helped.
This syllabus is an effort to promote better care for children with neurologic diffulculties.
This project is dedicated to my wife and children who hopefully will have an improved life from the efforts of all in the
medical profession past and present, and to the late Jim Schwartz, MD. He had enough faith in me to let me be his trainee.
He provided encouragement and was a strong role model for learning, integrity and commitment to the care of children with
Neurologic problems. I also want to thank WC Allan, MD for the Neurologic zeal he brought to Maine from Dr. Dodge's St. Louis
Child Neurology program where he trained. This convinced me to go into Pediatric Neurology.
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