Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Neurology Residency is a four-year categorical academic program embedded in a rural, tertiary-care medical center that serves a geographically dispersed catchment of roughly 3 million people across Northern New England, giving residents a tertiary-level acuity and case mix despite the rural setting. The program is research-active across nearly the entire faculty, with active involvement in epilepsy device trials, ALS biomarker and gene-environment studies, movement disorders, neuroimmunology, and stroke outcomes research specific to rural populations, and residents are encouraged (not mandated) to pursue projects aligned with individual career goals. Graduates consistently move into subspecialty fellowships with a 100% first-time board pass rate, and the program emphasizes one-on-one faculty mentorship, teaching responsibilities over students and co-residents, and continuous quality improvement as core resident competencies. Its identity is that of a small, academically rigorous program that trains fellowship-bound neurologists within a distinctly rural, medically underserved referral region rather than an urban tertiary hub.