The Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN) at UTHealth Houston offers educational programs in neurotechnologies. These include training in EEG analysis, epilepsy management, and related fields, with opportunities for hands-on experience and continuing education credits. TIRN also provides advanced fellowship programs for specialized clinical training.
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EEG and Epilepsy Course
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Residency & Fellowships
Epilepsy Fellowship Program
Course Overview: UTHealth McGovern Medical School in Houston has six ACGME Epilepsy Fellowship positions available beginning July 1st, annually, and two non-ACGME positions in invasive EEG. The epilepsy fellowship position is for one year with an opportunity to extend it to a second year. ACGME fellowship applicants must have a completed residency program in neurology, child neurology or general psychiatry accredited in the United States or Canada. Non-ACHME fellowship applicants must have completed neurology residency programs equivalent to a standard US neurology residency program, and possess ECFMG certification that allows clinical training in the US.
The fellowship program is designed to maximize learning and clinical experience, suitable for those planning careers in academic hospital medicine as well as those headed for private practice.
Fellowship Activities:
- Mandatory 8-week epilepsy neurophysiology course
- Weekly surgical patient management conferences
- Monthly surgical neuropathology conference
- Participation in national and international epilepsy meetings
- Clinical rotations in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Continuing EEG, MEG, epilepsy clinic (First Seizure Clinic), and electives in intra-operative Monitoring and Sleep
Application for Fellowship Program
Summer Research Program
Course Overview: The Summer Research Program provides U.S. undergraduate and McGovern Medical School first-year medical school students with hands-on laboratory research experience supervised by McGovern Medical School and faculty members throughout the medical and dental schools of UTHealth. The internships are ten weeks in duration. Each student is required to write an abstract of research performed during the summer. Scheduled events that supplement the research experience include weekly seminars, certification courses in animal science: laboratory safety and radiation, an enrichment series, and tours of selected facilities and labs.
Registration: The application period is December 1 – February 1 (11:59 pm CST) each year. Candidates must be available to begin on the first day of the program in May 2021.
For more details, visit: https://med.uth.edu/oep/medical-education/student-programs/summer-research-program/