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Program Description
Child neurologists are specially trained physicians who have followed
up their four-year medical school education with a five-year post-graduate
training regimen consisting of two years training in pediatrics,
one year in general neurology and two years in pediatric neurology.
In 1969, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) awarded
the first board certificate in Neurology "with Special Qualification
in Child Neurology."
Mayo Clinic's three-year Child & Adolescent Neurology Residency
Program is closely integrated with its Adult Neurology Residency
Program. The Child & Adolescent Neurology Residency has didactic
programs, clinical services, research opportunities and first year
of clinical training similar to the adult neurology program, but
with an added emphasis on neurodevelopment issues.
Your training program can be customized to meet your individual
career goals. The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requires
that you complete two years of general pediatrics residency or one
year of pediatric residency, plus one year of internal medicine
residency to become certified in neurology with a special competence
in child neurology.
If you complete two years of pediatric training, you will be board-eligible
in pediatrics and neurology with a special competence in child neurology.
If you complete one year each of internal medicine and pediatrics,
you will be eligible only for neurology certification with a special
competence in child neurology.
Certification
When you successfully complete the Child & Adolescent
Neurology Residency Program, you will be able to take the certification
examination in "Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology"
as offered by the ABPN.
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