In addition to the clinical and neurophysiology rotations described below, the Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship at Dell Medical School offers a robust didactic curriculum, including a two-week “Epilepsy Boot Camp” during the first month of the fellowship, followed by weekly lectures and a monthly epilepsy journal club. Additional conferences include a weekly electroencephalogram conference and a weekly epilepsy case conference held jointly with the adult epilepsy program.
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Fellows receive vigorous training in inpatient and outpatient epilepsy and EEG through 12 monthly rotations:
- Outpatient pediatric epilepsy clinic (1 month, followed by weekly pediatric epilepsy continuity clinics).
- Pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit clinical rotation, in which fellows take ownership of EEG interpretation and clinical management for specific medical and surgical epilepsy patients (3 months).
- Neurophysiology service, covering all pediatric inpatient and outpatient continuous and routine EEGs outside of the EMU (3 months).
- Elective (2 months).
- Required research/quality improvement.
- Adult EMU/outpatient epilepsy.
- Pediatric EMU EEG rotation, in which fellows are responsible for reading and presenting the EEGs of all patients admitted to the EMU.