University of California Irvine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year, university-affiliated combined Pediatrics/Child Neurology program built on a partnership between UCI Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), with adult neurology training delivered through both UCI Medical Center and the VA Long Beach Medical Center. The tri-site structure exposes residents to adult inpatient neurology and stroke, VA-based subspecialty outpatient clinics (epilepsy, movement disorders, neuroimmunology, TBI), and a broad pediatric subspecialty clinic base at CHOC (ketogenic diet, tuberous sclerosis, neuro-oncology, neurodevelopmental/autism), reflecting a large regional catchment. Scholarly activity is a structured, mandatory component—every resident completes a mentored project presented at a Resident Research Symposium and participates in a Fellowship Core Curriculum covering research methodology, grant writing and career planning—signaling that academic development is built into training rather than optional. The program's emphasis on individualized research mentoring, subspecialty elective breadth, and its embedded fellowship-preparatory curriculum suggests it is oriented toward producing subspecialty-capable, academically engaged child neurologists rather than purely community practitioners.