Boston University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Boston University's neurology residency is an academic, safety-net-based program anchored at Boston Medical Center (New England's largest safety-net hospital) with additional VA training at West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, producing a resident experience built around underserved, medically complex urban populations. Scholarly output spans stroke, neurocritical care, amyloidosis, epilepsy, and movement disorders, with residents regularly co-authoring peer-reviewed papers and presenting at AAN, and the program has been recognized as a strong producer of academic neurologists whose graduates typically match into competitive fellowships. Distinctive structural features include a formal Clinician Educator certificate track, a longstanding Global Health Pathway with an annual Haiti mission (St. Luke Foundation partnership), simulation-based procedural training (stroke codes, EMG-adjacent injections, brain death exams) at the Solomont Center, and named traditions (Kase Research Symposium, CORTEX mentorship program) signaling deliberate cultivation of resident scholarship and teaching identity. The program values residents who are self-directed toward an academic or subspecialty niche early, comfortable in a high-acuity safety-net environment, and motivated toward teaching, research, or global health beyond routine clinical duties.