Special Program Features

The Neurology residency program at Upstate Medical University is three year program in adult neurology, certified by the ACGME and made outstanding by:

• Vigorous and growing Neurology Department
• 5 year ACGME certification cycle of the Residency Program. This is the longest program cycle granted.
• Strong didactic program
• Large patient referral base with interesting and diverse pathology
• Close-knit, friendly teaching environment
• Two adjacent hospitals, each with a unique practice setting:
  • Upstate University Hospital
  • Veterans' Administration Hospital
• NYS Silver Medal Stroke Center offering intravenous and intravascular thrombolysis, stents, clot retrieval, endovascular aneurysm treatments.
• Neurointensive Care Service. Intracranial pressure and perfusion monitoring, hypothermia.
• Comprehensive Epilepsy Treatment program with large inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit.
• New neuroscience hospital unit opened July, 2009, featuring large private patient rooms with roomside work stations
• New Children's Hospital opened 2009
• Library
  Extensive online and text library facilities
• Central New York environment
  Located in beautiful, family-friendly central New York with excellent school systems, relaxed lifestyle and low cost of living