Louisiana State University Shreveport Program

Program Identity & Fit

LSU Health Shreveport's neurology program is a university-affiliated, four-year categorical residency (with an internal medicine PGY-1 year) training residents across an academic medical center, a VA hospital, and dedicated outpatient neurology sites, giving a mature safety-net/tertiary patient mix typical of a regional academic hub in northwest Louisiana. Research is structurally embedded but not the program's central identity: every resident completes an annual mentored scholarly project (case reports, QI, reviews, occasional bench work) with resident-productivity evidence of posters and abstracts at AAN and regional neuromuscular meetings, supporting rather than defining the training. The program explicitly states that most graduates pursue subspecialty fellowships, and residents rotate through the full range of neurology subspecialty electives (stroke, epilepsy/EEG, neuromuscular, MS, headache, neurocritical care) plus a dedicated procedures clinic (Botox, baclofen pumps, LPs), signaling a fellowship-pipeline orientation built on broad clinical and procedural exposure with graded autonomy. It values residents who engage in longitudinal mentorship (assigned scholarly + self-chosen career mentors) and who will actively present and publish rather than treat research as optional.