The VAMC has two residents on duty at a time: a ward resident and a consult resident. Generally, residents do two months of wards or consults at the VAMC as an R2 and one month of consults as an R3. The Neurology and Rehabilitation Service at the VAMC provides residents with exposure to patients with a broad array of neurological and neurosurgical disorders. With the recent expansion of our services, to include the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, the San Francisco VAMC now offers tertiary-level neurological care for patients with epilepsy (including an epilepsy monitoring unit), Parkinson's disease, and other movement disorders, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, neurovascular disease, and neurogenetic disorders. Residents are closely involved in all facets of neurological care offered by the service, including state-of-the-art diagnostic evaluation, advanced medical, interventional, and surgical treatments, as well as long-term management of neurological disorders. There are approximately 200 inpatient admissions and 300 consultations per year. There are 3 clinics per week and roughly 3000 clinic visits per year. Residents present at journal club once during each month. Call is every other night from home.
