Didactic Teaching Sessions

*Didactic teaching session schedules will vary from rotation to rotation based on educator’s availability*

Students are required to attend regular didactic teaching sessions. These sessions are NOT optional and are an integral part of final exam content.

***If you anticipate that you will miss a didactic teaching session, you are required to notify the Clerkship Coordinator at least 24-48 hours BEFORE the session.

Teaching sessions are typically held on Thursday or Friday afternoon but dates and times may vary in order accommodate faculty speaker’s availability. The program coordinator will send students calendar invites for each session that also includes the Zoom link for the session.

The clerkship administrator will send out a schedule of didactics for the month along with Zoom links. Sometimes, particularly in Spokane, there is a conflict between clinical duties and didactic sessions. In that case, students should alert the clerkship coordinator PRIOR to the start of the session that they will miss the didactic session, and they should instead watch an archived video of the lecture at a later time.

Teaching sessions via Zoom include:
• Pain
• Pediatrics
• SAH (Subarachnoid Hemorrhage)
• Brain Tumors
• TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
• Spine

As a courtesy to didactic speakers, students should turn on their videos during Zoom didactic sessions unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Besides the live didactics, you are expected to view previously recorded archived talks on Stroke, Seizure, and Headache. Pre-recorded video talks on Neuroimaging and the Coma Exam are strongly recommended.

Live and recorded talks re accompanied by a series of questions for which you are required to submit answers to confirm your participation and learning.

*Occasionally, a live didactic session will be cancelled due to an unexpected last minute change in the speaker’s availability. When this happens, the clerkship coordinator will notify students and will send a link to an earlier recording of the session to the students for them to watch.

*Students are also required to attend in-person Neurology didactic teaching sessions every Thursday afternoon at UW Medical Center – Montlake with Dr. Eric Kraus (UW Neurology Clerkship Director). Attending these sessions via Zoom is not an option as these sessions are taught in-person only. These sessions are NOT optional and are an integral part of final exam content.

Session Slides:

Neurologic exam

Cervical and Upper Extremetry Radicular Syndromes

Frontiers in the mechanisms and treatments of refractory genetic epilepsies – A preclinical insight

Med student brain tumor talk

Medical Student Epilepsy Lecture 2013 v7

SAH

Spine Mets RS

Spine Talk Clerkship

UW Med Student Peds Neurosurg Talk

Spontaneous Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage (IPH) / Questions & Answers re Spontaneous IPH: Questions – Sponatneous IPH

Current Recordings: