Phoenix Children's Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year categorical child neurology program (two pediatric preliminary years plus three years at Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's) combining a major multispecialty children's hospital with St. Joseph's, a nationally recognized adult neuroscience center. The curriculum is subspecialty-dense, with structured rotations across epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology (including a distinctive Hypothalamic Hamartoma center), neuromuscular disease, movement disorders, neuro-oncology, neurocritical care, and headache medicine, and residents rotate through both adult and pediatric neurology services throughout all three child neurology years. The program serves a large, multicultural Phoenix-metro population including significant Native American and Hispanic communities, and explicitly supports both fellowship-bound and general/academic child neurology career paths, with in-house post-residency fellowships in headache, neurocritical care, movement disorders, epilepsy, and clinical neurophysiology. Faculty emphasize longitudinal mentorship, individualized career planning, and physician well-being, and multiple graduates return to the program as faculty after fellowship or private practice.