Indiana University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

IU School of Medicine's Adult Neurology Residency is a large, academic, university-based program (ten residents per year) anchored in Indianapolis at IU Health Methodist and Riley Hospital, with a broad complement of subspecialty fellowships (vascular, movement disorders, neuroimmunology, neuro-ophthalmology, behavioral neurology) that reflect a comprehensive tertiary-care identity and substantial fellowship pipeline. The program emphasizes resident-driven inquiry, encouraging trainees to translate clinical questions from patient care into scholarly work, and offers embedded research infrastructure spanning medical student to postdoctoral levels. As the state's only academic medical center with a designated MS Center of Comprehensive Care and a re-established vascular neurology fellowship, the department signals strength in stroke and neuroimmunologic subspecialty care, with faculty mentorship structured around individualized fellow/resident goals rather than a rigid track system. The program appears to value residents who can generate original clinical questions and pursue them through mentorship-supported scholarship rather than passive rotation completion.