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Mayo Clinic's neurological clinical material is rich and varied,
offering you the opportunity to see both common and unusual neurological,
and neurosurgical problems.
Clinical Training
The clinical component of the fellowship involves evaluation and
management of patients with all forms of cerebrovascular disorders,
performing and interpreting non-invasive cerebrovascular studies
and participating in clinical treatment trials.
Your clinical training would include rotations in the outpatient
Cerebrovascular Clinic in the Department of Neurology, and on the
inpatient Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease hospital service. The
inpatient experience includes the opportunity to care for patients
with cerebrovascular diseases in the Neurological Intensive Care
Unit, including those with acute ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage
and intracerebral hemorrhage.
Because Mayo is the primary cerebrovascular disease and stroke
care provider for a large geographical area, the hospital practice
includes local patients with common and uncommon cerebrovascular
disorders. In addition, as a tertiary referral center, national
and international patients are referred for all types of cerebrovascular
disorders.
In the outpatient Cerebrovascular Clinic rotation, as a stroke
fellow, you will have the opportunity to evaluate patients new to
Mayo Clinic referred directly to Neurology, and also consultations
referred from other Mayo health care providers. Patients seen in
the Clinic present with a wide range of cerebrovascular disorders.
Common diagnoses include asymptomatic carotid occlusive disease,
transient ischemic attack, cerebral infarction of all types and
mechanisms, intracranial aneurysms and vascular malformations, vasculitis
and a variety of other cerebrovascular disorders.
Didactic Training
Your training will include cerebrovascular conferences
and other clinical conferences in the Department of Neurology. These
include:
- Weekly Neurology Department Grand Rounds
- Weekly hospital-based case conference
- Weekly rotating subspecialty conference
- Semi-weekly cerebrovascular therapeutics
conference
The Cerebrovascular Division participates in each of these rotating
conferences. The evidence based medicine program, case conferences,
visiting faculty conferences, and all didactic courses are open
to both residency program members and fellows in all subspecialties.
Research Training
The research component of the fellowship includes the use of clinical
epidemiological techniques and population databases to develop research
protocols, the organization and completion of at least one clinical
research project, and formal training in medical research methodologies.
You will work with mentors among the vascular neurology faculty
as you decide on your research project(s), develop data collection
forms, collect data, analyze the data, and submit abstracts and
manuscripts. Additional skills you will acquire include:
- Writing research grants
- Handling clinical research data in a computerized
format
- Editing and validating data sets
- Analyzing and reporting results
There is a formal Clinical and Patient Oriented Research Training
Program in the Mayo Graduate School . You may take courses of their
choosing within this program to enhance their skills in all aspects
of clinical research.
Dedicated research time will be available during your one- or two-year
fellowship.
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