Louisiana State University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

LSU New Orleans is a university-affiliated academic neurology program built on a four-year internal medicine-plus-neurology track, drawing patients from across Louisiana and the broader Gulf South through a distributed network of clinical sites (University Medical Center, VA Hospital, West Jefferson Medical Center, Ochsner Kenner, and Children's Hospital). The curriculum emphasizes broad subspecialty exposure through disorder- and procedure-specific electives (headache, epilepsy/EEG, neuromuscular/EMG, MS, movement disorders, neuroradiology) alongside required simulation training and quality improvement projects rather than a mandate for bench research. Career outcomes skew toward fellowship training followed by community-based practice, particularly within Louisiana, reflecting the program's stated mission to serve the regional population and its own graduates' return to community service. The program values cultural competence, adaptability to an economically and clinically diverse safety-net population, and steady scholarly engagement (QI, case reports, conference attendance) over an academic-research identity.