All fellows will be required to participate in the following didactic sessions during their training period.
Phenomenology sessions: Eight hours live interactive review lecture sessions beginning at Year 1 of fellowship training with relevant selection of patient videos. Topics include tremor, dystonia, voice and laryngeal dystonia, chorea, myoclonus, gait and abnormal eye movements.
Weekly movement disorders journal club
Weekly movement disorders research seminar
Weekly Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
Monthly movement disorders literature review sessions: Discussion of selection of articles presented by fellows; this includes recent publications and articles from the core curriculum for Movement Disorders fellowship training recommended by the AAN Movement Disorders Section and the MDS collaboration.
Monthly patient video sessions
Didactic session for training in critical review of literature: Actively participate in review of submitted grant or manuscripts
Mandatory interactive DEI training: combination of experiential and didactic training; four modules
- D&I 1.0 – Awareness: Examining culture
- D&I 2.0 – Understanding: Examining Unconscious Bias
- D&I 3.0 – Commitment: Providing language taddress discrimination and fostering inclusion
- D&I 4.0 – Action: Empowering tproactively combat bias and prejudicial statements/behaviors
Training sessions in responsible conduct of research: Led by PERCSS (Program for the Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Science and Scholarship) at Washington University School of Medicine.
Additionally, several other training and educational opportunities exist; trainees are strongly encouraged to participate in:
- A comprehensive review of movement disorders for the clinical practitioner, Aspen course
- TEAM (Tele-Education At-Large in Movement Disorders) movement disorder fellows’ lecture series (weekly online course)
- Career development seminar series conducted by the Washington University Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC)
- Dissemination and implementation research workshop (2 day CRTC course)
- Brain cutting and pathology sessions led by Division of Neuropathology
- Other departmental and medical school seminars
Evaluation
- Weekly review of new patient evaluations and write-ups by attending
- Review of all inpatient consultations by attending.
- UPDRS and UHDRS rating scale reliability evaluation
- Periodic assessments and evaluations by supervising attending using movement disorders specific competency based milestones.