AUPN Leadership Minute Episode 9: Engaging Medical Students in Neurology – Part 2

WATCH TIME: 5 minutes

AUPN's Leadership Minute is a brief, highly focused summary of practical advice for Chairs, Program Directors and other leaders in academic neurology, available as both mini-podcasts and in short form videos.

The goal of this program is to provide relevant and useful information in a modicum of time, designed to fit seamlessly into our very busy schedules.

NEUROLOGY PERSONAL STATEMENTS – GREATEST HITS

• Sherlock Holmes (“I love puzzles”)
• Oliver Sacks (“neurologists can talk to the diseased organ”)
• Brain – the final frontier (“new discoveries all the time”)
• The physical exam matters
• Long-term relationships (treat the patient, not the disease– focus on quality of life)

NEUROLOGY’S BAD RAPS (and how to use the Greatest Hits to address them)

• Too hard
  • stress the puzzles: clinical reasoning, not pattern recognition
  • minimize the esoterica: https://neurologic.med.umich.edu/
• Too sad
  • final frontier
  • focus on quality of life
• Too futile
  • ditto (and welcome to medicine)

Click here to access the full PowerPoint presentation for the episode.