Keck School of Medicine of USC Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly ACGME-approved four-year categorical neurology residency (first class 2027) based at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Arcadia Hospital, deliberately structured to blend community-based inpatient neurology at Arcadia with tertiary/quaternary complex care at Keck, plus outpatient subspecialty exposure across autoimmune neurology, epilepsy, headache, movement disorders, neuro-ophthalmology, neuromuscular disease, memory disorders, and stroke. The program guarantees a minimum of five dedicated research months (PGY2–PGY4) plus six elective months, embeds residents alongside USC's numerous subspecialty fellowship directors (Headache, Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, IONM, MS, Behavioral Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Vascular Neurology), and draws on university-wide research infrastructure including a top-5 NIH-funded Physiology and Neuroscience department and the SC-CTSI. As an inaugural program built by its own faculty mission ("skilled, compassionate, and curious neurologists who will lead in patient care, education, and research"), it explicitly expects residents to use their research time productively and positions graduates for either specialized academic medicine or community practice. Distinctive features include a pediatric neurology rotation at CHLA, hands-on procedural training (EEG, EMG/NCS, TCD, botulinum toxin, headache procedures), and direct longitudinal mentorship from fellowship program directors across nearly every neurology subspecialty.