To create a formal neurology curriculum for UCSF internal medicine residents to increase comfort with diagnosis and initial management of neurologic disease.

The burden of neurologic diseases in the U.S. and globally has reached unprecedented levels. As of 2011, more than 100 million Americans are affected by neurologic diseases¹. In contrast, neurologists account for only 1.5% of physicians according to the Association of American Medical Colleges². Primary care providers must therefore be capable of front-line management of neurological diseases. Several continuing medical education programs have been designed for non-neurology practicing physicians^3-6 but relatively few exist for the resident level. We have created a neurology curriculum for University of California San Francisco internal medicine residents in order to increase comfort with diagnosis and initial management of neurologic disease during training.

Our curriculum is comprised of seven high-yield neurology lectures delivered over the course of one year at internal medicine noon conference across 3 UCSF hospitals. To assess efficacy of the lectures, medicine residents completed short, anonymous pre- and post-lecture evaluations on a Qualtrics survey platform, including Likert scales and comment sections to evaluate satisfaction.