Movement Disorders Fellowship
The Department of Neurology at UNC Health offers a one-year fellowship in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. The fellows will receive focused training in the diagnosis and management of patients with various movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism syndromes, tremor, focal and generalized dystonia, Huntington’s disease and other choreas, Tourette’s syndrome, tardive dyskinesia, myoclonus, and other rare disorders associated with abnormal movements.
Goals of the Clinical Fellowship in Movement Disorders
- To develop expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of adult movement disorders.
- To develop competence in the therapeutic use of deep brain stimulation and focus ultrasound for movement disorders.
- To develop competence in the therapeutic use of the botulinum toxin injection for focal and generalized dystonia, hemifacial spasm and spasticity.
- To develop a core of clinical and basic science knowledge relevant to the field of movement disorders.
- To skillfully use movement disorders rating scales in everyday clinical practice.
How to Apply & Requirements
Please apply by sending a curriculum vitae, letter of interest, and three letters of recommendation to Nina Browner, MD at the e-mail or postal address below. Interviews usually are held July – October during the year prior to starting fellowship. Our fellowship is not part of the Movement Disorders match program. UNC is an equal opportunity employer.
Applicants must be Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or have equivalent certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
This is one year clinical fellowship and begins on July 1st.
Salary is equal to the PGY5 salary at UNC.
Salaries & Benefits for ResidentsThe clinical fellow is assigned to six half days a week of outpatient care at the UNC Movement Disorder Center interfacing directly with a movement disorders faculty for each session. The fellow injects at the chemo denervation clinic weekly. The fellow is also assigned to one operative movement disorder case per week and participates in intraoperative monitoring of the deep brain stimulation surgical case weekly.
Lectures
In order to develop a core of clinical and basic science knowledge relevant to the field of movement disorders and to become familiar with rating scales used in movement disorders, the fellow participates in the following:
- bi-weekly video rounds and deep brain stimulation case conference
- bi-monthly Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence Parkinson’s disease Interdisciplinary Team Assessment
- bi-monthly CurePSP and MissionMSA Centers of Excellence Atypical Parkinsonism Team Assessment
- quarterly movement disorders journal club and weekly Neurology Grand Rounds.
The fellow may join clinical trials and research protocols conducted through the Movement Disorder Center and they will be encouraged and mentored through their own clinical research projects in movement disorder.
Mailing Address
Department of Neurology at UNC-Chapel Hill
CC: Nina Browner, MD
Program Director, Movement Disorders Fellowship
Physicians Office Building
170 Manning Drive, CB#7025
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7025