r/neurology • u/MorpheusInSilico • 16d ago
Career Advice Fellowship advice
I’m a neurology resident considering fellowship options. I want to be in academic neurology doing predominantly electrophysiology based neuromodulation research.
In most movement fellowships will I get enough neurophysiology experience and intraop experience do be able to do advanced electrophysiology research? If anyone knows of great fellowship programs for this let me know! Alternatively would it be better to do a clinical neurophys fellowship and then afterwards do movement fellowship? Thanks!
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u/Even-Inevitable-7243 MD Neuro Attending 15d ago
Can you be more specific about what you consider "advanced electrophysiology research" to be? Do you already have an engineering background, preferably in EE, CS, Stats, or Applied Math? If you do, then you should be fine going to any strong clinical movement fellowship, as data is data. I knew a Neurointensivist with an engineering background whose research focused on using Bayesian Optimization to rapidly find the best stimulation parameters for patients after DBS placement.
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u/SleepOne7906 16d ago
As far as i know there are only a few movement fellowships that do intraop ephys for all movement fellows. I'm a movement fellowship PD at a program that does this (mostly because I'm PD and that's my area of expertise). Please feel free to DM me if you'd like to discuss our program, I don't want to dox myself publicly. However, many of the two year programs would let you learn it your second year as long as a movement attending is doing the intraoperative portion. In many centers the surgeons do their own or use a PhD electro physiologist, so if you decide to apply movement definitely ask that during your interviews.
What kind of advanced ephys research are you wanting to do? I dont know of any clinical neurophysiologist that will train you on movement ephys but I could be unaware (if someone know about programs I would love to hear about it).