This elective offers an opportunity for students to function as interns on the neurology unit at Memorial Hospital. The unit has 30 beds, including a 4-bed neuro-observation unit, and is designed for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological complications of cancer. Students admit and evaluate patients under the supervision of the neurology assistant resident and will be on-call 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 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 laboratory tests of the preceding day, and a biweekly neuropathology conference to review both gross and microscopic neuropathological material. Each sub-intern 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.
