Neurology Residency Program

The MedStar Health—Georgetown University Hospital Residency Program in Neurology (MGNNR)

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, 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. 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.

Training at our hospitals gives residents an opportunity to experience a variety of neurological presentations across a diverse socio-economic background. 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
• Neuro-muscular rotation
• Subspecialty clinic rotations in movement disorders, cognitive disorders, headache, neuro-muscular, multiple sclerosis, neuro-ophthalmology, and neuro-oncology
• Continuity Clinic care
• Elective rotations in subspecialties: Cognitive Disorders, Epilepsy including advanced EEG reading rotation, Headache Clinic, Movement Disorders, MS / Neuroimmunology, Neuromuscular Clinic, Neurocritical care, Neurointerventional, Neuro oncology, Neuro-ophthalmology, Neuro-rehabilitation, Sleep Medicine and Community Neurology - Underserved Neurology rotation.

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