NEUP852A
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NEUP852A - Behavioral, Cognitive, and General Neurology - PHX
Course ID
037184
Course Description
COURSE DIRECTOR: Stephen Flitman
GOALS and OBJECTIVES
To gain experience with patients with disorders of higher brain function, including language, memory, behavior, spatial function, and executive function. This includes patients from age 5 and up including children with epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, learning disability, and young adults with adult attention deficit disorder and early onset dementia, to late adulthood with stroke, dementias like Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body disease as well as rare conditions including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (the human equivalent of mad cow disease).
FORMAT
Not Directly Supervised/Patient Care. Students will participate and observe patient evaluations at 21st Century Neurology, a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. The emphasis will be on performing mental status examinations and administering standardized tests like the Folstein MMSE and the Rey AVLT. Computer- based testing may also be employed. Interpretation of test results, formal neuropsychological tests, neurophysiology and neuroimaging will be part of the experience. Opportunities for students to participate and observe clinical research are also available, as the clinic is currently engaged in several phase II and phase III trials of experimental therapeutics and experimental diagnostic tests. At the end of the rotation, the student will give a brief presentation on a neurobehavioral topic of his/her choice. Students are encouraged to attend grand rounds and case presentations at the Barrow Neurological Institute, which is on the same campus.
TEACHING METHODS
Students will be evaluated based on observation of skills and assessment of assigned readings as well as a self-rating. Students will complete a course evaluation questionnaire rating the quality of the overall elective experience.
GOALS and OBJECTIVES
To gain experience with patients with disorders of higher brain function, including language, memory, behavior, spatial function, and executive function. This includes patients from age 5 and up including children with epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, learning disability, and young adults with adult attention deficit disorder and early onset dementia, to late adulthood with stroke, dementias like Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body disease as well as rare conditions including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (the human equivalent of mad cow disease).
FORMAT
Not Directly Supervised/Patient Care. Students will participate and observe patient evaluations at 21st Century Neurology, a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. The emphasis will be on performing mental status examinations and administering standardized tests like the Folstein MMSE and the Rey AVLT. Computer- based testing may also be employed. Interpretation of test results, formal neuropsychological tests, neurophysiology and neuroimaging will be part of the experience. Opportunities for students to participate and observe clinical research are also available, as the clinic is currently engaged in several phase II and phase III trials of experimental therapeutics and experimental diagnostic tests. At the end of the rotation, the student will give a brief presentation on a neurobehavioral topic of his/her choice. Students are encouraged to attend grand rounds and case presentations at the Barrow Neurological Institute, which is on the same campus.
TEACHING METHODS
Students will be evaluated based on observation of skills and assessment of assigned readings as well as a self-rating. Students will complete a course evaluation questionnaire rating the quality of the overall elective experience.
Min Units
1
Max Units
4
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
CLK - Clerkship H,HP,P,F
Career
Medicine
Course Requisites
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No