Email this pageOur Clinical Program and Regional Draw
Residents are based primarily at the University of Rochester’s principal teaching site, Strong Memorial Hospital. At Strong, the specialty units share a 24 bed inpatient unit for neurology, which is adjacent to a 24 bed neurosurgery inpatient unit with incorporated neurological critical care postoperative and step-down beds. In addition, the department has just moved into a new 5000 sq ft outpatient facility, which has examining rooms adjacent to both clinical neurophysiology and neuroradiology facilities. The neurology outpatient clinic at Strong saw over 23,000 patients in 2008-9, distributed among both general neurology and a host of specialty clinics. Additional outpatient facilities are dedicated to clinical trials, and are housed within the nearby clinical trial coordination center, which is awaiting a move in 2010 to a new building dedicated to clinical and translation research, including clinical trials.
In addition to their work at Strong, residents also rotate at Highland Hospital and the Canandaigua Veterans Administration Hospital. Highland in particular is enjoying rapid growth of its neurological and neurosurgical services, with a planned expansion in 2010 of a dedicated 20-bed inpatient neuromedicine floor. In addition, Highland sees over 4,000 neurological outpatients yearly, covering a general population complementary to the tertiary care referrals that comprise so much of Strong’s population.
Besides Strong, Highland and the VA, additional resident rotations through Rochester General Hospital, with its 11 bed neurology unit and 13 bed stroke rehab unit, are planned beginning 2010. Strong, RGH and Highland together comprise the three largest hospitals in the city of Rochester, and have a combined market share that includes most of Rochester’s population, as well as that of the surrounding counties. The expansion of the residency program to include RGH, together with the rapid expansion of the Highland Hospital program, will effectively expand neurology’s purview to include the entire city of Rochester, and most of the population of its surrounding counties.
