Neurology Residency Program

The Neurology Residency program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital educates future leaders in neurology, preparing them for compassionate and scientifically excellent patient care. Our distinguished program gives residents the opportunity to pursue either a clinically based career, as they develop into master clinicians, or a career in academic research, as clinician-scientists.

We are a categorical program that offers clinical training at some of the nation’s finest teaching hospitals, located in the Washington, D.C., region. Training at our hospitals gives residents an opportunity to experience a variety of neurological presentations across a diverse socio-economic background.

Our collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, specifically the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, to foster research and scholarship in the residency program.

This unique combination of core rotations in clinical training plus exposure to research gives our residents unparalleled opportunities to learn neurology across the full spectrum of neurologic subspecialties.

Our residents receive training in:

• Inpatient General Neurology, Stroke and Consult services
• Neurocritical care rotations
• EMU and Epilepsy rotation
• Subspecialty clinic rotations in movement disorders, headache, neuro-muscular, multiple sclerosis, neuro-ophthalmology, and epilepsy
• Continuity Clinic care
• Elective rotations in subspecialties: Cognitive Disorders, Epilepsy, Headache Clinic, Movement Disorders, MS / Neuroimmunology, Neuromuscular Clinic, Neurocritical care, Neurointerventional, Neuro oncology, Neuro-ophthalmology, Neuro-rehabilitation, and Sleep Medicine.

To Learn More About the Opportunities Our Program Offers Trainees, Read Messages From Our Chair and our Program Director.

MedStar Georgetown’s NIH Neurology Residency is a fully accredited categorical four-year program that provides training across the depth and breadth of neurology.

By beginning your career with us, you’ll be welcomed into a training program renowned for its reach and scope:

Residents receive Pediatric Neurology training in inpatient and outpatient settings at Children’s National Medical Center, one of the largest Neurology departments in the country

The program gives residents ample elective time to foster their individual growth and further explore their interests in neurology. 

Residents develop clinical skills in neurology by providing comprehensive care to adult and pediatric neurology patients. 

Special emphasis is placed on certain neurological disorders being researched by Georgetown Neurology faculty, such as :

All full-time attendings are excellent general neurologists, experienced in the diagnosis and management of neurologic disorders. Each also has one or two areas of special interest.

The Clinician Scholar Track trains residents to become excellent practicing neurologists. It provides residents with foundational rotations in inpatient and outpatient Neurology and provides significant elective time to explore and pursue their interest in Neurology. Clinician scholars can use their elective time for research at the NIH or research, either in the Department of Neurology or in one of the affiliated labs at Georgetown University Medical Center.

The Clinician Scientist Track trains a dedicated resident to becoming a clinician and a researcher. It provides the same foundational rotations in inpatient and outpatient Neurology as the Clinician Scholar. The elective time is protected so the clinician scientist and pursue a dedicated research project at the NIH with a faculty mentor.We also offer a Global Health Track for interested PGY-3 resident which includes didactics and a rotation abroad.