The University of Connecticut Neurology Residency Program is an ACGME accredited three-year program with an average of four residents accepted per year.  It is primarily based at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT and at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT but contains rotations at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, The Institute of Living (which are located at the Hartford Hospital campus), Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, CT and the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, CT.   Our program boasts specialists in the various neurological subspecialties, each with their own approach to patient care, education and research. 

Salary is very competitive and residents enjoy a full benefits package that includes medical, dental, life and disability insurance, professional liability, and a tax sheltered investment program.  Other benefits offered within the department include book and travel expenses, membership to the American Academy of Neurology that includes a three-year subscription to the journal Neurology, and four weeks of paid vacation/educational leave each year.

Residents are exposed to the full range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient problems of general neurology.  They also receive a firm foundation in diagnostic neurophysiology, neuropathology, pediatric neurology, psychiatry,  neuroradiology and neuro-rehabilitation.

Residents not only gain experience from inpatient neurologic consultations but also practice outpatient neurology in two tertiary care settings, one at the University Health Center and the other at Hartford Hospital.   The emphasis on outpatient neurology includes both general neurology clinics and university specialty clinics such as Muscular Dystrophy, Neuro-ophthalmology, Vascular Disease, Epilepsy, Headache, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuro-genetics, Neuro-oncology, and Geriatric Neurology.  During outpatient office hours at both institutions, residents follow patients longitudinally over the three years of their residency, functioning as the primary neurologist for their own patients.

A generous amount of elective time has been scheduled to enable residents to pursue areas of particular interest.  During their three years, residents are encouraged to select electives in the subspecialty areas supported by our faculty that are not included in the mandatory curriculum which include:

.           Seizures             .           Sleep Disorders             .           Neuromuscular disease             .           Electromyography             .           Neuro-ophthalmology             .           Cerebrovascular disease             .           Movement Disorders             .           Multiple Sclerosis             .           Functional Brain Imaging             .           Headaches             .           Neuro-oncology             .           Geriatric Neurology             .           Balance and Gait disorders             .           Neuro-genetics

If research is of particular interest, residents may participate in a variety of clinical and laboratory research projects constantly underway within the Department or undertake a project of their own choosing.   The Department of Neurology at the University of Connecticut Health Center has well-funded research programs with more than one million dollars of NIH grants.