The UNC Epilepsy fellowship training program is an ACGME-accredited program that is organized to provide the intellectual environment, formal instruction, peer interaction, and supervised clinical experience necessary for fellows to master the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential to the practice of epilepsy. The program prepares fellows to progress into a subspecialty practice, research or teaching career in epilepsy.<\/p>\n
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Central to these goals is the fellow\u2019s attainment of the six core competencies in the areas of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.<\/p>\n
Program Description<\/h2>\n
During the epilepsy fellowship, the fellow will:<\/span><\/p>\n
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Serve as an epileptologist under close faculty supervision for inpatient and outpatient care in epilepsy including EMU services (adult and pediatric), outpatient epilepsy specialty clinic, fellow\u2019s longitudinal clinic, and inpatient subspecialty consultation;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Interpret EEGs including long-term monitoring and routine\/ambulatory EEGs and EPs;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Participate in all pre-surgical and surgical evaluation for medically intractable epilepsy such as Phase I evaluation, epilepsy surgery conference presentation, WADA, intracranial EEG monitoring (known as Phase II), ECOG, and functional mapping;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Participate in other clinical neurophysiology such as IOM and sleep study during electives;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Teach neurology\/neurosurgery residents and medical students rotating through their epilepsy\/EEG rotation;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Complete at least one scholarly project and submit at least one abstract to the national meeting. Fellows will have various opportunities to participate in research projects and are encouraged to publish a first-author manuscript.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
At the end of the fellowship, fellows will be competent to evaluate and manage patients in the full spectrum of seizure disorders and utilize all diagnostic testing with competency in EEG and EPs. In addition, fellows will be able to take the epilepsy ABPN board. \n<\/span><\/p>\nEpilepsy Division<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n