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Goals & Objectives - Movement Disorders Fellowship Program
- To gain training that emphasizes the description, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of various movement disorders including Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, tremor disorders, focal and generalized dystonia, Huntington's disease and other choreiform disorders, Tourette syndrome, restless leg syndrome, tardive dyskinesia, myoclonus, hemiballismus, and other rare disorders associated with abnormal movements.
- To evaluate new patients and provide ongoing care to established patients and discuss therapeutic recommendations and outcomes.
- To work with our neurosurgery group in the evaluation and treatment of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), including patients with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in patient testing during DBS surgery, learn intraoperative microelectrode recording, and will become familiar with programming DBS pulse generators.
- To learn, practice and manage the use of botulinum toxin injections to alleviate movement disorders.
- To participate in ongoing clinical research studies; to gain experience in IRB/regulatory issues related to clinical trials; to assist in protocol review, investigator meetings, contract/budget negotiations, patient enrollment, data collection, monitoring visits, and statistical evaluation.
- To gain experience with standardized rating scales used in evaluating movement disorders.
- To learn about the benefits and work with the ancillary programs, i.e., physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social worker referrals.
- To create, present and become comfortable with presenting Movement Disorder topics to groups of patients and/or providers.
- To teach medical students and neurology residents topics in Movement Disorders at bedside and in structured lecture series.
- To develop and complete at least one original clinical research project and to publish these results in abstract form.
