General Clinical Neurophysiology

This one-year of fellowship is designed to enhance the technical skills and clinical application of clinical neurophysiology (CNP). The fellow will work closely with the Neuromuscular and Epilepsy services. Under the guidance of these services the fellow will become proficient at the performance and interpretation of nerve conduction studies, electromyography, electroencephalography, long-term video/EEG monitoring, and evoked potentials. Experience is obtained in our outpatient Epilepsy and Neuromuscular specialty clinics. Additionally the fellow will be exposed to sleep disorders and nerve and muscle pathology.

Fellows spend approximately 3 months on the Emory epilepsy service, 3 months with the Emory Neuromuscular service, and the remainder of their time at Grady Memorial Hospital. For services offered during epilepsy and neuromuscular rotations at Emory, please refer to the CNP-epilepsy and CNP-neuromuscular fellowship program descriptions. 

Grady Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the state with 955 beds and one of only two level one trauma centers in Georgia. It is, additionally, home to the Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center which offers a state of the art Neurocritical Care Unit.

CNP-related clinical services at Grady include:

• Epilepsy Clinic
• Grady Electrodiagnostic Laboratory (>600 EMG examinations/year)
• Approximately 1200 routine EEGs and 250 long term video monitoring cases/year
• Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (>60 patients/year), continuous ICU EEG monitoring (>650 patients/year), routine inpatient and outpatient EEGs (>1600 cases/year) and ambulatory EEGs (>50 cases/year)

After completion of the fellowship, the physician will be eligible to take the board certifications offered by American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Didactic conferences include the following:

• Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Lecture Series (Tuesday and Thursday mornings, July-October)
• Weekly Combined Neurophysiology Conference at Brain Health Center Executive Park 12 (Thursday mornings, October-June)
• Weekly Epilepsy surgery conference (Tuesday mornings, adult and pediatric)
• Weekly Epilepsy Lectures (Tuesday mornings, includes Journal Club and Chapter Review Sessions)
• Weekly EMG Conference at Executive Park 12 (Friday mornings, September-June)
• Weekly Neurology Grand Rounds at Executive Park 12 (Friday mornings, September - June)

Fellows are offered the annual American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine Electrodiagnostic Medicine In-Service exam, and the annual American Clinical Neurophysiology Society In-Service Exam.