About the Medical College of Wisconsin Child Neurology Residency Program
Thank you for your interest in our Child Neurology residency program through the Medical College of Wisconsin. Our goal is to train passionate child neurologists who will go on to be involved in a lifetime of excellence in patient care, academics and research.
Our program is a 5-year categorical training program. We are excited to offer different training pathways for our trainees to choose from. The first track includes two years of pediatric residency training followed by three years in child neurology residency training. This track has two pathways. The first is the more traditional pathway which results in Board eligibility in both Pediatrics by the AAP and Neurology by the ABPN. The second pathway allows early exposure to child neurology during the first two pediatric years leading to Board eligibility in Neurology but does not lead to Board eligibility in pediatrics. In addition, we offer a neuroscience research track which includes a year of pediatric training, a year of basic neuroscience research and three years of neurology training. Our applicants apply via a single categorical program pathway. We have 2 open positions for candidates who have met the appropriate criteria.
Prerequisites for Appointment into the Child Neurology 5 Year Combined Program
- Hold an MD Degree or accepted equivalent
- US or Canadian medical school graduates: passing score for USMLE1 or NBOME1
- Graduates of US or Canadian Osteopathic schools: passing score USMLE1 or NBOME1
- International Graduates: must have current ECFMG certificate
- Have registered and applied for the Child Neurology Program through the ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) and NRMP (National Resident Matching Program)
- Must meet all ACGME program requirements for entrance
- Candidates must successfully complete a personal interview
Using state-of-the art facilities, we bring our pediatric specialists under one umbrella and integrate both inpatient and outpatient care. Learn more about the Children's Wisconsin Neurosciences Center.
Children’s Wisconsin has a dedicated 21-bed pediatric neuroscience unit. This includes a self-contained, 12-bed Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit built with state-of-the-art, all-digital, video-EEG equipment. The Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit operates 24 hours a-day, seven days a week. The unit is staffed by a team of dedicated physicians, nurses and EEG technicians who specialize in pediatric epilepsy. We have an on-site inpatient EEG lab and outpatient EEG lab. We use advanced techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI) to enable noninvasive mapping of language and motor function as assist with specialized diagnoses and monitoring. The Pediatric Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the Neuroscience Center is one of the leading epilepsy surgery programs in the country and does epilepsy surgery in children of all ages from infancy to young adulthood. Our pediatric neurosurgery team performs over 25 pediatric epilepsy surgeries a year. Each patient considered for cranial epilepsy surgery is carefully evaluated first in the epilepsy monitoring unit and then discussed individually in the multidisciplinary epilepsy surgery conference.
We have a dedicated electromyography and nerve conduction laboratory which performs over 100 pediatric studies every year including intra-operative monitoring and diagnostic testing. Our comprehensive neuromuscular program includes a Muscular Dystrophy Association Care and Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy center designation with a multidisciplinary team of over 8 specialties. Additionally, our neuromuscular program performs their own muscle and nerve biopsies with residents being able to participate if interested. The program is currently involved in multiple therapeutic and diagnostic research trials.
We also have a multidisciplinary pediatric neurocritical care and neonatal neurology programs. These services are mixed inpatient and outpatient services which involve multiple specialties and include a neurovascular stroke conference, neurocritical care meeting, prenatal consultation clinic as well as involvement in research aspects in these areas.
There are ten child neurology faculty in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin that are each fully involved with the residency and fellowship programs. We have a broad range of sub-specialties amongst our faculty with multiple research interests. If you would like more information about our prestigious faculty members, there is a small biography for each faculty member on the Neurology Faculty page.