Cleveland Clinic Foundation-Florida Weston Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, tertiary/quaternary academic neurology program embedded within Cleveland Clinic Florida's Weston campus, offering high-acuity inpatient exposure (stroke thrombectomy, SEEG/epilepsy surgery, neuro-interventional work) alongside a required preliminary internal medicine year at the same institution. The program emphasizes hands-on procedural autonomy early (bedside lumbar punctures, EMG/NCS, close work with interventionalists and epileptologists) within a small-cohort, high-touch mentorship model where residents rotate to the Ohio main campus for neuropathology and neuro-ophthalmology. Fellowship placement is the dominant outcome measure, with roughly 90% of graduates pursuing subspecialty training (epilepsy, vascular, neuromuscular, MS, movement disorders) at leading academic centers, reflecting a program identity oriented toward producing subspecialists rather than general community neurologists. The program explicitly values well-rounded clinicians who combine compassion and team orientation with academic curiosity, and it leverages its dual-campus Cleveland Clinic infrastructure to support case-based research culminating in regional/national presentations rather than bench science.