Advanced Clerkship in Neuroradiology
RD 525M.23
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital offers a four-week course for students who have completed a core clerkship or equivalent in radiology and would like further exposure to neuroradiology. The schedule will be customized to the student’s interests and goals. The student will observe and participate in interpretation of brain, spine, and head and neck imaging while paired with a resident or fellow with overall supervision by neuroradiology faculty. The student will have opportunity to independently review cases prior to discussion with a resident or fellow and then faculty member. In addition to traditional reading room consultations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the student may also observe consultations in the Neuroradiology Virtual Reading Room or within oncology clinic at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Basic procedural exposure will include fluoroscopically guided lumbar punctures and myelograms. Required educational conferences include daily radiology didactic and case conferences. A variety of multidisciplinary meetings are also available for attendance, including brain tumor board, head and neck conference, neurology conference, neurosurgery conference, and spine conference. Optional activities include but are not exclusive to the following: - Exposure to functional MRI, including the pre-imaging patient interview and training, test administration, and final study interpretation - Time on the neurointerventional radiology and/or cross-sectional interventional neuroradiology services - Observation in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite The student will select a case to present to the course director at the end of the rotation, and appropriate cases can be considered to submit for publication, if desired. Opportunities for assisting in research projects may be accommodated.
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