Senior resident Dr. Jeffrey Dewey led residents from two specialties through a joint neurology-medicine conference today.
A collaborative effort between the programs that started this academic year, interdepartmental case conferences allow neurology and internal medicine residents to discuss topics in the crossover between the closely related fields. The cases on cortical vein thrombosis today highlighted the intersection between stroke neurology and hematology, while prior conferences have addressed neurological complications of systemic sarcoidosis (led by senior neurology resident Dr. Benjamin Blond) and strokes in the young as related to endocrine disorders (led by senior neurology resident Dr. Shivani Ghoshal).
This year, residents from both departments also collaborated in teaching the “Top Ten” joint medicine-neurology clerkship conferences for third year medical students at Yale School of Medicine. Neurology residents currently teach four of the ten sessions in each cycle. The goal is for medical students to develop expertise in approaching patients who present with neurological complaints stemming for systemic medical disease and vice versa.
Leadership from the two departments are continuing to seek collaborative educational opportunities.