Nicklaus Children's Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a 3-year child neurology residency built on a dedicated cross-institutional model, pairing Nicklaus Children's Hospital (a large, freestanding, subspecialty-dense children's hospital with Level 1 trauma, Level 3 NICU, and a broad Neuroscience Institute) with Cleveland Clinic of Florida's adult neurology program to satisfy the ABPN's required adult neurology year. Clinical exposure spans EMU, neuro-ICU, inpatient consults, and a wide array of subspecialty/multidisciplinary clinics (epilepsy, neuromuscular, neurogenetics, spasticity, headache, ion channel, stroke), with structured continuity clinic allowing residents to narrow focus by their final year. Research is built into elective time and a required Year 3 project, and the program explicitly frames graduates as equally prepared for academic practice (physician-scientist or clinician-educator) or independent clinical practice, rather than pushing a single trajectory. The program values residents who can function with graduated autonomy across two distinct institutional cultures (children's hospital and adult academic center) and who engage across both broad general neurology and subspecialty multidisciplinary care.