Medical University of South Carolina Program

Program Identity & Fit

MUSC's Child Neurology Residency is a growing, academically-affiliated five-year categorical program (two years pediatrics, three years child neurology) newly expanding to two residents per year, built on a close institutional partnership with the Pediatrics Residency that allows a single ERAS/NRMP application. The program explicitly frames itself as a hybrid: it offers the flexible curriculum, personal mentorship, and resident agency characteristic of a small program, combined with the technology, subspecialty faculty, and complex pathology access of a major academic medical center and its Brain Research Institute (focused on autism, ADHD, seizure disorders, and pediatric brain trauma/development). It states its aim is to prepare graduates for any practice setting and any career goal - pure clinical care, medical education, or scientific research - rather than pushing a single track, positioning itself as broadly preparatory rather than narrowly research- or community-focused. Institution-wide research infrastructure (SCTR, MSCR/MPH pathways, K-award bridge funding) is available to interested trainees, though the child neurology page itself does not describe a mandatory scholarly requirement.