Sub-Interns | UCSF Neurology Residency

There are five different month-long sub-internships available for medical student rotators in the Department of Neurology. These five sub-Internships are located at various UCSF Medical Center campuses - the Child Neurology Service (Mission Bay), the Advanced Neurocritical Care Service (Parnassus), the Neurology Inpatient Service Ward/Consult (Parnassus), and the Clinical Behavioral Neurology (Mission Bay). The fifth option is the Neurology Consultation Service at San Francisco General Hospital, which is usually reserved for UCSF medical students, but visiting students with a special interest in underserved populations may be considered. All six services are quite busy, providing excellent opportunities to expand your neurological knowledge and clinical skills while getting invaluable exposure to our Department.

For information on a visiting subinternship rotation at UCSF, please visit the School of Medicine Electives website for details.

Financial support is also available through the Visiting Elective Scholarship Program. This program was established to encourage fourth year medical students who are interested in working and conducting research with diverse populations to apply for a clinical elective rotation at UCSF. Each scholarship is $2000, will be reimbursed at the end of the rotation, and can cover visiting elective fees, transportation and lodging fees if approved.

Advanced Clinical Clerkship 140.01A

Course Description: Students will spend 4 weeks as acting interns on the neurohospitalist service at UCSF Health. Two weeks is spent on the consult service and two weeks on the primary ward service. The neurohospitalist service is a tertiary care referral service that serves the Bay Area, Northern and Central California. There will be exposure to a wide variety of neurologically affected patients in and out of the intensive care unit. Attendance at departmental clinical rounds, seminars and conferences is required.
Prerequisites: Neurology 110 and fourth year standing, or Neurology 110 and completion of core clerkships in Medicine, Surgery and Pediatrics.
Restrictions: 4th year Medical students
Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact

Child Neurology 140.04

Course Description: Participation in child neurology activities, both inpatient and outpatient, and all regularly scheduled conferences of the Child Neurology Division. Study of the developing nervous system and diseases of the nervous system affecting infants, children and adolescents.
Prerequisites: Pediatrics 110, Medicine 110, and Neurology 110.
Restrictions: none
Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Web-based course work

Advanced Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology 140.10

Course Description: Students will spend a total of 4 weeks at SFGH, San Francisco’s only trauma center, where they will develop advanced neurological skills in the care of emergent neurological patients through triage, evaluation, and neurocritical care management. Students spend two weeks on the neurology consultation service under the supervision of the consultation resident and attending neurologist. The other two weeks are spent caring for patients in the neurocritical care unit with the neuro-ICU team.
Prerequisites: Neurology 110 and fourth-year standing
Restrictions: UCSF STUDENTS ONLY
Activities: Clinical Clerkship

Neurocritical Care 140.12

Course Description: This advanced clerkship concentrates on the fundamentals of critical care with an emphasis placed on neurological illness. Essential skills and concepts related to the management of critically-ill neurological/neurosurgical patients will be introduced during lectures, conferences, daily rounds and night-calls.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing. Neurology 110. Consent of instructor.
Restrictions: Limited to 1 student per block.
Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact

Clinical Behavioral Neurology 140.13

Course Description: The Neurobehavioral rotation will explore brain-behavior relationships in neurodegenerative disorders. Instruction on dementia subtypes, cognitive assessment, psychopharmacology, and neuropathology will be offered. To apply this knowledge, students will participate in multi-disciplinary clinics, during which they will observe and perform neurobehavioral histories and examinations. Clinicians will provide feedback and guidance, supplementing differential diagnoses and plans for intervention.
Prerequisites: Neurology 110
Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year student in good academic standing
Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact