Clinical Neurology Consult Service Subinternship

Through this subinternship, students have the opportunity to join one of Memorial Hospital’s busiest services, the Neurology Consult Service. Under the supervision of a resident and an attending neurologist, students independently assess and care for inpatients with a vast array of neurological problems, which may or may not be related to their primary diagnosis of cancer. The broad exposure to patients throughout Memorial Hospital provides a rich opportunity for students to learn neurology within the context of a cancer hospital. Students may care for patients with an exceptional array of diagnoses — from chemotherapy-induced neuropathies to encephalopathy from varied causes — as well as critically ill patients both in the emergency setting and in the Intensive Care unit. Students are on call (until 10:00 PM) every third to sixth night and participate fully in attending rounds, and conferences of both the Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the Cornell Departments of Neurology.

Attending rounds are conducted seven times weekly by one of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s full-time attending neurologists. In addition, there are daily neuroradiology rounds to review imaging studies, a monthly neuropathology conference, and weekly professor rounds. Each subintern may have the opportunity to perform, under supervision, neurodiagnostic tests such as lumbar puncture.