Marshall University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Marshall's Neurology Residency is a small, university-affiliated categorical four-year program (four adult neurology residents/year) functioning as the regional referral center for neurological care across West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, and Virginia. Training occurs across three hospital sites, two with Level 2 trauma and top-tier cerebrovascular certification, plus a comprehensive multiple sclerosis program recognized by the National MS Society and an NAEC-certified 8-bed epilepsy monitoring unit supporting a broad subspecialty faculty (vascular, epilepsy, movement, neuromuscular, MS, neuro-critical care, interventional, pediatric neurology, neurophysiology). The department emphasizes strong didactics, evidenced by repeated "Clinical Instructor of the Year" recognition and a track record of graduating medical students choosing neurology, some returning as faculty, signaling a self-perpetuating teaching culture rather than a heavy research mandate. The program appears to value residents committed to broad clinical neurology training within an underserved, high-referral Appalachian catchment rather than a laboratory-research trajectory.