Explores the evolution of child neurology residency training and its educational challenges, highlighting implications for future practice.
Postgraduate residency in the United States is complex, and each medical field faces unique educational challenges. Child neurology has had a distinct identity for decades, yet its training curriculum originated from a joint venture of 2 larger and older fields, pediatrics and neurology. The traditional five-year training sequence consists of 2 years of pediatrics, 1 year of adult neurology, and 2 years of child neurology, as well as all other educational experiences, including electives. The contents of each major component have changed, in some instances dramatically, over the years, yet the original basic structure remains.
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