Baylor College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Baylor's Adult Neurology Residency is a large (~40 residents, 10/year), academic, tertiary/quaternary program built on the depth and diversity of the Texas Medical Center, combining a private tertiary referral hospital (Baylor St. Luke's), a high-acuity safety-net county hospital (Ben Taub) serving an immigrant-rich population with rare and advanced disease, and a major VA (MEDVAMC) with designated Parkinson's and epilepsy centers of excellence, plus subspecialty rotations at MD Anderson and Texas Children's. The four-year categorical structure with a heavy internal medicine PGY1, front-loaded call, chief/consultation leadership roles in PGY3-4, and a formal three-scholarship-product requirement signal a program that expects residents to become clinically versatile, self-directed neurologists comfortable across critical care, consultation, and subspecialty outpatient settings. Research is embedded but not obligatory beyond scholarship minimums—faculty-mentored case reports, posters, and original research are actively supported—and the program explicitly states most graduates pursue fellowship training toward academic or private-practice careers. Its scale affords unusual elective flexibility and broad subspecialty exposure (movement disorders, epilepsy, neuro-oncology, neuromuscular, stroke) rather than a single named track.