Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Wake Forest's Child Neurology Residency is a five-year categorical academic program (two years Pediatrics, three years Child Neurology) accepting two residents annually within a mid-sized university medical center in Winston-Salem. The clinical environment centers on Brenner Children's Hospital and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, offering subspecialty depth uncommon at this program size, including a Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Center with MEG, a nationally recognized pediatric headache program, tuberous sclerosis and MDA clinics, and dedicated neurogenetics and movement disorder clinics. Residents serve as chief of an active inpatient consult service spanning nearly every pediatric subspecialty, and the curriculum builds in protected research/elective time (including a dedicated board-prep/research month) alongside close one-on-one faculty mentorship. The program explicitly emphasizes personalized, low-attrition training in a "family-friendly," mid-sized environment rather than a high-volume tertiary-mill model, valuing residents who want individualized subspecialty exploration (headache, epilepsy, neuromuscular, neuroimmunology) within a collegial, close-knit cohort.