Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program

Program Identity & Fit

MCW's Adult Neurology Residency is a university-affiliated, tertiary-care academic program built around three distinct clinical environments: Froedtert Hospital (academic medical center, neuro-ICU, epilepsy monitoring unit), Children's Wisconsin, and the Zablocki VA Medical Center, giving residents exposure to complex inpatient neurocritical care alongside VA and pediatric populations. The department maintains substantial NIH and industry-funded research infrastructure spanning aphasia/language cognition, epilepsy, movement disorders, neuroimmunology, neurodegenerative disease, and TBI, with named labs and active clinical trials, though the residency itself emphasizes structured clinical training (5+1 schedule, Continuity of Care Clinic from intern year, Neurophysiology Bootcamp) over mandatory scholarly output. The program explicitly supports both fellowship-track and general neurology outcomes, describing training designed to be competitive for external fellowships as well as internal subspecialty continuation. Its structure—categorical PGY1 guarantee through Internal Medicine, increasing outpatient/elective time, individualized mentorship language—signals a preference for residents who value longitudinal continuity and a stepwise, well-scaffolded progression toward subspecialization.