Duke University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Duke's Child Neurology Residency is a tertiary/quaternary academic program embedded within a nationally prominent medical center, offering subspecialty depth in epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, movement disorders, sleep, and neurogenetics, with distinctive exposure to rare neurodegenerative disorders through Duke's Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit. The curriculum follows the standard adult-year-then-child-neurology structure but mandates a dedicated early second-year research rotation with formal training in study design and biostatistics, and residents draw on research infrastructure spanning neuroimaging, genomics, engineering, and the NIH Undiagnosed Disease Network. The program emphasizes progressive teaching and leadership responsibility, with residents delivering Grand Rounds and instructing pediatric and adult neurology trainees, reflecting an academic-track orientation. Categorical applicants match simultaneously into pediatrics and child neurology, and the program signals interest in candidates prepared for an academically rich, subspecialty- and research-integrated training environment rather than a purely community-based or primary-care pathway.