NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine’s Neurology Residency offers a holistic approach to training, focusing on a blend of clinical exposure, research opportunities, scholarly activities, and hands-on experiences. What sets us apart is a balanced exposure to inpatient and outpatient settings.

Program Details

Our three-year Neurology Residency, overseen by Harpaul S. Bhamra, MD, program director, includes a holistic-approach education focusing on a blend of clinical exposure, research opportunities, scholarly activities, and hands-on experiences. We accept three residents each year.

Trainees obtain valuable clinical experience during inpatient rotations at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, which is a designated Level 1 Trauma Center, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and a National Association of Epilepsy Centers Level 4 center. As a tertiary referral hospital, residents are exposed to a wide spectrum of neurologic diseases, which they help manage alongside our large cohort of advanced practice providers. Residents rotate through vascular neurology, general neurology, and neurocritical care teams to broaden their skillset. Elective rotations can be used to pursue special interests or refine diagnostic and management skills.

We have built in more than a year of outpatient neurology training via subspecialty and continuity clinics. Outpatient rotations take place at the NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center East Meadow, situated approximately 6 miles from the hospital. The facility offers 32 exam rooms, a conference room, a touch-down space, and a resident workspace. This location provides residents access to a group of neurology subspecialists, in addition to adjacent facilities for neurosurgery, orthopedics, physical therapy, and physical medicine and rehabilitation to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration.

To help build upon interpersonal communication skills learned during rounds, the NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island Simulation Center serves as a way prepare residents for effective and nuanced conversations. Residents can also expand their knowledge base and teaching skills by guiding medical students from the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine as they rotate through the neurosciences block.

Clinical Training Schedule

Our residents start their neurology training in postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) and can expect their clinical training rotations to follow the timetable below.

Neurology Residency Year 1

• consult junior – vascular
• consult junior – general neurology
• epilepsy subspecialty clinic
• neuromuscular subspecialty clinic
• neurointensive care unit
• night float
• elective and research
• vacation

Neurology Residency Year 2

• psychiatry
• pediatric neurology
• consult junior – vascular
• consult junior – general neurology
• neuro-immunology subspecialty clinic
• headache/concussion subspecialty clinic
• movement disorders subspecialty clinic
• neuromuscular subspecialty clinic
• neurointensive care unit
• night float
• elective and research
• vacation

Neurology Residency Year 3

• consult senior
• pediatric neurology
• neuro-immunology subspecialty clinic
• neuro-oncology subspecialty clinic
• movement disorders subspecialty clinic
• neuromuscular subspecialty clinic
• elective and research
• vacation

Continuity Clinic

Our continuity clinics are organized as 5+1 rotations in which residents focus on one week of continuity clinic every fifth week. This model allows residents to focus on their patients without having to be distracted by parallel inpatient responsibilities.

Night Float

Our program work on a night float system. One PGY-2 or PGY-3 resident covers acute and routine consults. The inpatient neurology ward and the neurosciences intensive care unit (ICU) are both managed by advanced practice providers; however, residents are expected to assist with any emergencies. In addition, advanced practice providers may assist the resident on call with overflow conditions such as multiple simultaneous stroke codes.

Scholarly Activities

Our scholarly activities include the following:

• morning report
• didactics
• Adult Neurology Grand Rounds
• Pediatric Neurology Grand Rounds
• Professor Rounds
• journal club
• Neuromuscular & Spine Conference
• Neuroradiology Conference
• Tumor Board
• Neurology Quality Improvement (QI) and Morbidity & Mortality Conference