Clinical Neurology Subinternship (N-102)

This elective offers an opportunity for students to function as interns on the neurology unit at Memorial Hospital. The unit has 20 to 25 beds, including a four-bed neuro-observation unit, and is designed for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological complications of cancer. Students will admit and evaluate patients under the supervision of the neurology assistant resident and will be oncall every third to sixth night. Students will work under the direct supervision of the neurology assistant resident and attending, and will participate fully in all of the attending rounds and conferences of both the Memorial and Cornell Departments of Neurology.

Attending rounds are conducted seven times weekly by one of Memorial’s full-time attending neurologists. There are, in addition, daily meetings with the neuroradiologists to review the imaging tests of the preceding day, and a monthly neuropathology conference to review both gross and microscopic neuropathological material. Each subintern will have the opportunity to observe neuroradiological procedures performed on his or her patients and to perform, under supervision, neurodiagnostic tests such as lumbar puncture.