The Neuromuscular Fellowship curriculum is comprehensive and follows the ACGME-guidelines and milestones. The fellow will receive the training necessary to develop the skills essential to the performance of Neuromuscular Medicine. This training includes many opportunities to observe, evaluate, and manage inpatients and outpatients of all ages with a wide variety of disorders of the neuromuscular system and perform numerous electrodiagnostic evaluations. Basic clinical knowledge including genetics, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, prognosis of each of the following disorders will be included as part of the training:
- Motor neuron disease
- Myopathy, including genetic and acquired
- Neuromuscular transmission disorders
- Cranial/spinal single and multiple mononeuropathies
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polyneuropathy: infectious/inflammatory
- Inherited neuropathy
- Polyneuropathy: toxins and others
- Polyneuropathy/systemic disease
- Channelopathies
- Nerve hyperexcitability disorders
Training includes direct patient care at the adult neuromuscular clinic, pediatric neuromuscular clinic, MDA and ALS multidisciplinary clinics or inpatient neuromuscular consults at UF Health Shands Medical Center and at the Randall VA Medical Center. Expertise in the performance of electromyography and nerve conduction studies will be obtained in the neuromuscular electrodiagnostic laboratory. There will also be a formal muscle and nerve pathology review teaching session.
Following one year of training, the fellow will be competent in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with any of the above-mentioned neuromuscular disorders.